Rip My World To Pieces

Nessa Barrett “I Hope Ur Miserable Until Ur Dead”

“I Hope Ur Miserable Until Ur Dead” is another in a line of Gen Z pop-rock hits that use classic alt-rock dynamics as a backdrop for lyrics very rooted in social media-driven teenage drama. As the title suggests, this is a gloriously petty song and the heaviness, tension, and melodramatic angst of this music is perfectly suited to this musical approach. That said, it is funny to me as a person who grew up with alt-rock as a default setting of popular music, to hear these sounds fully absorbed into the drama of generic Popular Kids when the version of this from the ‘90s was always coming from a more adult perspective and/or was garbled up with abstract and poetic language. There’s absolutely zero room for ambiguity in this song, just earnest invective and unfiltered emotional brutality. It’s unapologetically immature in its sentiment, and the wild mood swings of the arrangement give the message a heavy punch and the shaky volatility of a sudden emotional tantrum.

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