With her latest single “Villain of the Week,” Nashville-based songwriter Aubrie Sellers astutely draws parallels between the lawless wild west that is online dating with the villain-of-the-week trope that ruled TV during the era when Westerns were the medium’s biggest draw. Over fuzzy garage-rock riffs, Sellers uses her tried-and-true country drawl to call out the cyclical nature of the dating app experience: being charmed by a new stranger who’s neither the “good” nor necessarily the “ugly” in the famous Spaghetti Western triptych.
“It’s about being in that place where every week feels like a new disappointment,” Sellers elaborates of the track, which takes the approach of resigned angst while contemplating the revolving door of inadequacy one gets fed on apps as you swipe through accounts like you’re restlessly flipping through channels. “You’re tired of dating apps, and you’re just waiting to find the one who’s going to play a bigger role in your life.”
Check out the visualizer for the track below. And maybe give the local watering hole a try for a while.
