![]() ![]() “So at age 11, I taught myself how to play guitar.”īy 13, DiRusso mapped out every open-mic night in Westchester County and turned her parents into roadies. ![]() “I watched this bootleg documentary about Taylor Swift and she said ‘Well, you have to write your own songs if you want to sing,’” DiRusso remembers. She took AP classes even though she knew her future wasn’t in academics, she says with a surprising twinge of grief. She was the kid who did everything: basketball, lacrosse, soccer, field hockey, chorus, theater, student government (“I was the president of my class five years in a row”). My songs are where my anger lives.”ĭiRusso grew up north of Manhattan, in the suburban town of Croton-on-Hudson. But it was really freeing for me to realize that I do express anger. “I genuinely didn’t realize my music was ‘angry’ until like two months ago when a friend said that,” DiRusso says. Four golden retrievers with their heads craned out of the passenger seat window until DiRusso screams “FUUUUUCK YOUUUUU.” On her last tour opening for fellow TikTok-fave Declan McKenna, DiRusso rocked a cherry-red Kramer emblazoned with a “Diver Down” flag while Urry bounce-shredded on a literal trampoline. “Guitars really speak to me,” she says, and they’re amply featured in her live set. Those sinuous, over-the-top guitar solos come from DiRusso singing a line to complement her vocals. Though DiRusso performs with a full band with guitarist Eden Urry, bassist Zack Lockwood, and drummer Josef Kuhn, she writes all the parts with Cummings in the studio. “Nauseous” was recorded with her producer Jason Cummings at 4115 Studio in Nashville, where DiRusso has lived in the same sprawling, 100-year-old house with fellow songwriter roommates for the last four years. “The song is trying to capture when you meet someone new and wonder ‘Am I what you like? Could I be what you like?’ There’s a high from being exactly what someone else wants you to be - getting it ‘right’ - but it’s exhausting to be anyone other than yourself.” “Everyone’s done the scramble of shoving things in your closet, Febreze, fluffing the comforter,” she says with a laugh, her lily-white bangs hang over her blue eyes. “W hat if I stayed here and gave it up? What if I cleaned my room and we fucked?” s he deadpans on the catchy single, “Nauseous.” It’s a salient example of DiRusso’s brand: bedroom rock made by a self-described “messy room girl.” Like those bands, DiRusso satirizes the cycle of self-disgust and self-righteousness anyone who has been, will be, or still acts like they’re 23 would know well. Her first EP God, I Hate This Place is a joyride packed with over-shares and anthems that summon the wry pop of ’90s classics like Liz Phair’s Whitechocolatespacegg and Veruca Salt’s American Thighs. On “Hybrid,” she describes a summer drive: “You were driving/ I was lifeless, I liked it.” ![]() “He loves my face but not my body/ Should I lose weight? Just so he’ll want me?” She sings on “Body,” which ends with a grunge-rock slam that answers the question. Her lyrics are barbed with intrusive ideas that pull you in like a secret. The friction of opposites - the grotesque and the beloved - is the soul of DiRusso’s sound and hinges on her willingness to say the quiet parts out loud. What she interrogates through her music is how both can be true. “What made it even more sickening was that one of the other priests at the church said, ‘We pray for the deacon - and the accusers.’”Īnnie DiRusso Dresses Up As Marie Antoinette in Hilarious New Video For ‘Nauseous’ĭiRusso, 23, says in person and in the song (“Emerson”) that she was a happy child. “When I was in eighth grade getting confirmed, it came out that this deacon in our church molested young girls years ago, actually before he baptized me - it was past the statute of limitations by that time,” DiRusso looks down at her coffee mug pressed against Melissa Etheridge’s greyscale grin on her tee shirt. “Baptized by a pedophile in a church that reeks of oak and death.” S he shoots an “OK now let me explain” look. “I have one song about growing up and a bit about my childhood,” Annie DiRusso says with some apprehension. Annie DiRusso Dresses Up As Marie Antoinette in Hilarious New Video For 'Nauseous' ![]()
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