The Nashville singer-songwriter Liza Anne has been dropping one-off singles all yr, and so they launched one known as “Shania Twain Is Making Me Cry” earlier this month. A bunch of these tracks will seem on the forthcoming LP Utopan. Right now, Liza Anne follows that monitor with “Web Despair,” a brand new one which tackles the very relatable feeling of spending an excessive amount of time on-line though you possibly can really feel it sucking all of the life out of you.

On “Web Despair,” Liza Anne sings over a easy piano line, describing a quite common form of existential disaster: “Scrolling via variations of my buddies I’ve by no means met/ Feeling lonelier now than that birthday the place I stayed in mattress.” Right here’s what Liza Anne says in regards to the monitor:

There’s such a wierd ache to the web whenever you’re feeling disillusioned with your personal life and swallowed within the discomfort and ache. It’s like being always confronted with everybody’s greatest aspect — in fact, it’s not one thing to take personally but it surely feels unattainable to not evaluate the worst feeling inside you to the projection of “the whole lot is nice” that you simply’d come throughout on social media.

With this track, I used to be voicing the frustration and disbelief I had in believing that the individuals round me had been truly experiencing emotions of being in love as a result of, inside my expertise of “being in love,” I used to be at all times solely midway there — I simply thought, for years, that the expertise of affection was one in every of projection and dissociation — saying one thing sufficient in order that hopefully you actually meant it will definitely. It’s so relieving to grasp that isn’t the case — I used to be by no means meant to be with a cis man as a result of I’m a lesbian.

It’s so unusual to be feeling so disassociated from your self as I used to be seeing it projected on the web – we have now such a direct line of sight to everybody always. To have that view whereas experiencing dysphoria in your personal expertise is particularly heavy — it’s arduous to discover a house in your self already and to have that fixed reminder of everybody’s the whole lot on a regular basis — that’s rather a lot for a unconscious to carry onto.

Take heed to “Web Despair” beneath.

Utopian is out 11/3 on Antifragile Music.