“Writing Sadgirl was about understanding myself through the wreckage. It’s about letting go of fear and facing the parts of myself I’d spent years avoiding.”

“‘Bad Apple’ is about loving something so deeply only to discover it was harmful, you bit into a bad apple—something that leaves you alone and broken.”

“LOVE YOU BETTER came from wishing I had the ability to love people better than I was capable of. Grief and trauma have shaped the way I connect with others, and the song reflects that — the wish to heal with love, and the painful truth that sometimes love just isn’t enough.”

Montreal multidisciplinary artist Annie-Claude Deschênes returns with Main de Fer, a haunting new single that fuses minimal techno and avant-garde into a disorienting soundscape of emotional isolation and psychological unraveling.

“Rosie is a thank-you to my friends. It’s about rolling all of them into one perfect person — Rosie — who doesn’t actually exist. I didn’t want to single anyone out, and none of their names fit into the chorus!”

“Rabbit Hole was inspired by a pretty chaotic chapter of my life. It’s about losing control, when your mind takes over and everything feels magnified—like falling down a rabbit hole.”

“World’s Worst Girlfriend is me at my peak dramatic gay.It’s about feeling like a terrible partner because instead of going on nice dates, I mostly wanted to stay inside with our cats and play video games.”