Indigo De Souza is releasing All of This Will End, the follow-up to her near-flawless LP Any Shape You Take, on April 28. She's already dropped a couple singles: "Younger & Dumber" and "Smog." Today, she's shared another one called "You Can Be Mean," an immediately gripping FU to past emotional parasites.
“I wrote ‘You Can Be Mean’ about a brief toxic experience I had with a manipulative and abusive LA model fuckboy,” De Souza explained. “However brief, it had a life-long impact on my understanding of self. Leading up to that experience, I had a history of putting myself in toxic situations and pining for validation from people who treated me poorly. I was stuck in some delusion that I could help abusive people through their trauma and teach them to love me in the way I deserved.
“I wrote this song when I finally realized that I could choose not to allow harmful behavior into my life, and that there is a deep, deep importance in protecting the body and spirit,” she continued. “I stopped caring about validation from assholes, stopped thinking it was my responsibility to help them, and started caring for myself in a real way. Once I made that switch in my psyche, I began to manifest truly loving, safe, kind, and communicative people into my life.”
Watch the video for "You Can Be Mean" below, and pre-order All of This Will End here.
