Taste Test: Jamie McDell is kinda thinking ’bout ‘Botox’
The singer-songwriter scoffs in an ex-lover’s face with her new song.
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Instincts are nature’s way of telling you what’s right and wrong. We often teeter on a high-flying tightrope, a balancing act, and every second we could fall across the moral line into uncertain plunder. We suppress it, too, a notion that could very well have dire consequences. New Zealand singer-songwriter Jamie McDell peers down below her tottering form into the past to take one last polaroid of a relationship whose stranglehold over her guttural compulsions nearly cost her everything. “Botox” employs self-doubt and her own bristled introspection as the catalyst to finally drive herself out of the dark, dank abyss. “Maybe I could add to my order / Does it even work like that / Ask the doctor if he could make me shorter / So you can get your manhood back,” she bites her thumb in spite. The former lover’s venom has, fortunately, not poisoned her self-worth; no, she stands, back firm and straight, and simply scoffs.
“Botox” is the title cut to McDell’s new EP, expected everywhere October 25.
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