"I don’t wanna go to work today / Is what you used to say"
St. South is the musical project of Australian singer-songwriter / multi-instrumentalist / producer Olivia Gavranich and the effervescent, yet sad slow grooved Red drips into your psyche easily. One side of the song, with the decidedly "down" beat and Gavranich's heartbreaking depressive laden lyrics (of a relationship that feels almost like a Cult's oppressive and confining type of hold), “I’d barely woken up to not being strong enough to withstand your painful love,” “You have your eyes on red, I might just phone a friend if you hadn’t sheltered me from them" is very darkly drawn.
The other side, though, feels more like declarations of having had enough, of empowerment (especially on the chorus) "I don’t want to spend my life in worry / And no I don’t want to watch you smoke a durry / I’ve got things to do, things to do today / And I fucking hate it when you blow it in my face" AND of leaving the cult of narcissistic control.
“Sometimes people we love don’t treat us how we hope they will,” Gavranich says of the song. “Sometimes we accept their love due to lack of love for ourselves. ‘RED’ is about realizing this very sentiment, and mustering the strength to walk away from someone who doesn’t treat you how you deserve to be treated.”
Red is a deeply intimate song and one that I hope all girls (and womxn) hear, absorb, commiserate with.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
As a songwriter, singer, and producer, St. South has worked tirelessly on the skills required to make the kind of nuanced and soulful electro she’s known for. But her sound is not just a study in technical self-reliance; it is an intimate portrait of an artist who lives life on her own terms.
St. South is the moniker for Australian singer-songwriter-producer-multi-instrumentalist Olivia Gavranich. She self-released her debut EP Nervous Energy in 2016, which garnered millions of streams, as well as TV placements with The Vampire Diaries and The Fosters. She followed that up with 2017’s Inure and is currently working on new music. Without any outside support and no touring history, St. South has already built a steady and dedicated fanbase, with over 23,000 fans across social properties and almost 400,000 monthly listeners at Spotify alone.
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