When a person innocently asks “How are you?”, we’re immediately faced with a decision: Do we answer honestly, and let this person into our authentic headspace if only for a second; or do we lie and keep it simple and quickly move on? It’s a question we ask ourselves on the daily, and it comes to mind when swimming deep inside Housewife’s glowing new single “Life Of The Party.” The rising alt-pop project of Toronto artist Brighid Fry dropped the haunting track a few weeks back, with the video hitting September 24.
“‘Life Of The Party’ is the closest I’ll ever get to making the music 13-year-old emo me wanted to make,” says Fry. “It’s a totally self pity fest, which is sometimes exactly what you need! I made this song with Mikky Ekko and Aaron C. Harmon, and we wrote it about the cognitive dissonance you get between people’s perception of how your life is going versus how you actually feel it’s going.”
“Life Of The Party” takes on a more darker edge than Housewife’s previous indie-pop singles, and it stirs up an enchanting swirl of melancholic self-reflection. And reminds us that just because we’re the “Life Of The Party” one moment, doesn’t mean we are the next — no matter how we answer those innocent inquiries from those orbiting around us.
“I totally love my job, but I think sometimes people make a lot of assumptions about me based on the fact that I’m a musician,” she adds. “People see me on stage and assume that I’m this super confident person living a super glamorous life, and that is just not the case. Once I get off stage, I am a very anxious person who doesn’t like being the center of attention — so I wanted to write a song about balancing people’s opinions of me with how I actually feel about myself.”
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