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November 2021 | Song #17

Artist: Notelle

Song: “Turnover Rate“

Nashville-based “dark industrial artist” Notelle is having a good year. WIth over 31 million streams, she’s recently been named the “Nashville Artist To Watch” and her brand of “nightmare pop” pushes boundaries and stands apart from other contemporary artists. She counts Nine Inch Nails and Muse as her influences of note. “Turnover Rate” is her latest single and my favorite song she’s released to date.

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Notelle drops new track from your nightmares, ‘Bugs’

Compared to Nine Inch Nails and Billie Eilish, ‘Bugs’ further establishes Notelle’s “nightmare pop” sound. Textured fiendish vocals, distorted gritty bass and a rhythmic section reminiscent of a war call solidify Notelle’s work as genre-defying and remarkably sultry pop.

“I wrote ‘Bugs’ during a break up where it felt like that person was still in my body in some capacity,” explains Notelle. “The impact of someone else’s choices left literal and metaphorical residue on me, and I felt dirty. I kept imagining it as a bad hallucination - like bugs. Was this person capable of hurting me more? Was the worst of it over? Or was another bomb going to be dropped on me when I felt like I was out of the woods? I wanted this song to embody that level of paranoia, you know? When you check behind doors or shower curtains when you’re alone in your house - or when you can’t tell if the noises in you hear in the silence are in your head or are real. That’s a bizarre place to be, and ultimately, I came to the conclusion that I wasn’t out of my mind. In fact, they were.”

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