{"id":45846,"date":"2021-12-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=45846"},"modified":"2023-07-22T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T17:58:10","slug":"premiere-mimi-oz-hate-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/premiere-mimi-oz-hate-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiere: Mimi Oz Goes Under the Microscope In “Hate” Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mimi Oz wrote her song “Hate” as a way to deal with conflicting feelings of being an outsider. The Toronto-based singer-songwriter thrives on “being alone,” she says, as a “highly creative” person. With a strong support system, she adds, “I can\u2019t say that loneliness is a regular feeling that I experience.” And yet, when she was living in New York City from 2018-19, pangs of loneliness continuously ripped right through her psyche, inspiring her to write “Hate.” A visual for the track, directed by Dylan Mars Greenberg, premieres today via Audiofemme<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I was hit hard by a lot of things that were adding up, one of them being that it didn\u2019t matter where I went, I just kind of felt like people didn\u2019t like me,” she tells Audiofemme<\/em>. “That was a hard truth that wore on my mental health. Not fitting into my community was also part of it, and that was every area of NY that I lived in.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The song appears on Oz’s third studio record, Growing Pains<\/a><\/em>, released October 22. “All my life, I tried to live outside the hate,” she huffs in almost a dream state, then caterwauls, “I see the hate you feel for me,” as electric guitar intensifies into a rolling boil. Oz reaches her hand through space and time to appeal to our collective sadness and the pressures of modern living and dying. With drums played by Miles Gibbons and guitar from David Celia, Oz conjures up a “perfect hollow space where you can feel the intensity of the lyrics, and everything hits hard and together and pulls you along. There is also a sense of violence, and I wanted to somehow explore that in the video but it didn\u2019t end up turning out that way.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n