Debuting in 2019, Nire Bird’s releases have seen her dive into thought-provoking topics, told through a lens of experimentalism and passion. A lifelong piano and viola player, the artist began to sing as a way to get her babies to sleep. This motherhood experience started a new artistic vision for Nire Bird, writing, performing and producing all her music.
With her second album, You Made Me Not the Same, on the horizon, Nire Bird has shared her new single ‘Obsessor Doll’. Presenting her seductive and dreamy lyricism over reverberant, fractured percussion and roaring bass hits and swells, Nire blurs the lines between instruments, sound effects and breaths, making for an enticing but haunting atmosphere. The artist pours herself into the track, falling into each phrase as her production surrounds her.
Nire Bird shares a story behind the track, “Obsessor Doll in particular started as an idea about a girl obsessed with a guy. But it felt wrong in so many ways like I didn’t want to write this message. Then my best friend started trolling me on social media and WhatsApp about my whole world. She said, ‘what’s wrong with you, I’m unfollowing you, I never see your stuff but this is too far, are you ok, what are doing, you think you’re making art, you’re not making art, this is pornography.’ It went on and on and I realised it had been for years. Nothing about what I was doing was pornographic.
She was so wild in her shaming, female jealousy and attempted control that it made me laugh, cry and become deeply motivated in retaliation. I looked in the mirror and felt my obsession. So the true song revealed itself as a girl singing in the mirror becoming her alter ego and embracing her obsession. An obsession to produce and create while not being hurt by outside noise and criticism even when it’s someone you think is a best friend. In my reflections I realised how deeply she’d been holding me back, trying to keep me in her box because she just didn’t feel sexy anymore as a mother.”
‘Obsessor Doll’ listening link here!
