Written Ashley Paskill
Toronto-based artist, Bryn McCutcheon, unveils her newest single, “Making Monsters,” and its accompanying video today. The single can be streamed across music platforms and the video is available to view below.
The song is about grappling with anxiety and not being able to do or feel anything else. In McCutcheon’s case, this showed up in her relationships. The first part of the chorus is about constantly making monsters out of men and is coming from a place of frustration with love.
“It encapsulates feeling an inability to not let my anxiety run or ruin my relationships,” said McCutcheon. “At the time, I was so used to the cycle of falling in and falling out of love – so used to deifying and demonizing my lovers – that I was caught in a constant riptide of unease.”
The music video was shot by Luke Doerge of Home Sweet Sessions. The imagery involves a room that resembles a bedroom and an asylum. Throughout the video, McCutcheon dips her hand in a black substance and gets it on the white throughout the room.
“I think there’s something so beautiful and haunting about the image of my hands dripping with the substance we used to symbolize anxiety with,” says McCutcheon. “I have chased this song, I have had anxiety attacks over this song, and I have loved this song.”
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