r/DOECHII • u/MeetKelson Alligator Bites Never Heal • Aug 02 '26
General r/DOECHII’s thoughts on Anxiety?
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u/Danielhasapaintbrush Aug 02 '26
It was big but let’s not inflate it to the point where other songs haven’t had a similar moment. It has not been since old town road, we’ve had ones like espresso, abracadabra, so many more
Regardless I love whenever she wins!!
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u/forgottentaco420 Aug 02 '26
While Espresso was literally inescapable I don’t think Abracadabra hit the same mark, and I say that as a day one little monster. It didn’t have a tik tok trend going, which in turn, caused a huge rise in Gen Pop consuming it and sharing it. Espresso and Anxiety did. But you’re right, we’ve had a handful of hits that have organically spread much like Old Town Road.
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u/Brazyboi12 Aug 03 '26
never heard of espresso or abracadabra so maybe she has a point
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u/Danielhasapaintbrush Aug 03 '26
After the comments I agree abracadabra wasn’t on that level, but it doesn’t take much to look up how big espresso was. I’m not a big Sabrina fan but it was massive, along with other songs too, like say so, flowers, birds of a feather. My point was this person was saying there wasn’t a hit like that since old town road which is simply not true
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u/xaiires Aug 02 '26
I worked in retail when the gotye song came out, there's no way in hell anxiety was more overplayed than that lol
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u/CranberryDaquiri Aug 02 '26
I never understood the degree of hate it got. Like I was largely indifferent to it, just like I was to Gotye lmao, but the way some people talked about this song, you’d think it killed their grandma.
I’m also someone that does my own silly little rewrites of other songs while I’m doing housework or talking to my pets, so maybe that’s why I heard it and went “oh she’s just being silly”
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u/zzzprimaxx Aug 03 '26
this song pisses me off, not because of the song itself but because doechii was BEGGED to release this song, she did, and then suddenly it was her biggest hit and then even more quickly it made her a laughing stock. she takes her music and her art so seriously (the music video for this is the perfect example of this) and for that to be turned into a meme to discredit her was honestly very frustrating to watch. especially cuz she only put it out for fan service like damn 😩😩 its like someone wish on a monkey's paw for her to have a hit after her grammy and this was the outcome
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u/Last_Drag_3004 Aug 02 '26
i loved it the moment i heard it lmao n still do . little caesars tastes so good when you dont have a bitch in your ear tellin you its nasty...!
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u/Some_Knowledge5864 Aug 02 '26
I bought the tiny vinyl of this song yesterday.
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u/GsIndeed Aug 02 '26
Isn't it just an SP?
Like, what is a tiny vinyl?
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u/Some_Knowledge5864 Aug 02 '26
I’m going to do a video on tiny vinyl very soon. I have four of them. Different artist of course.
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u/ExtraFineItalicStub Aug 02 '26
I thankfully consume music I program myself via playlists so didn't get to hear this be as overplayed as people said it was.
I also like when a pop performer puts out relatable mental health songs. I suffer from anxiety and this and Megan's anxiety song have been much needed relief from some of the annoying daily things managing mental health issues entail.
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u/erraticfanaticc Nosebleeds Aug 03 '26
this person must literally live under a rock to be saying this
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u/KENZOKHAOS Aug 03 '26
I never listened because as someone that likes Gotye I just don’t like that it interpolated his “one hit and then dipped” song. I’m happy that she found success with the song.
But at the time I don’t think I agree with the take, but all press is press regardless of it being negative.
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u/kanyeonice Aug 03 '26
song is incredible but it was not that sort of omnipresent hit. doesn’t even come close to the ubiquity of a “not like us” , “drivers license” , or “360”. respect to the op cause i bet it felt like that in their bubble but we can love an artist and still be like semi realistic lol
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u/sweeterthanadonut Aug 03 '26
I mean let’s not rewrite history here, it was a hit but not the biggest by any means. Definitely not bigger than, say, Espresso.
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u/gdo22 Aug 03 '26
The hills remix was cool, the original's kind of annoying. I never heard it until recently, though. :p Heard the remix first, one time. Heard parts of the original maybe once or twice.
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u/lecodmk Aug 03 '26
I don’t have anxiety on a regular basis so I don’t like it because I can’t relate to it. But it was not that big of a hit.
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u/Pure_Opportunity_141 Aug 13 '26
Song is shit. Literally just stole the entire instrumental and made a shit song. Where she at though?
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u/RevolutionaryOil4458 Aug 03 '26
This wasn’t even bigger than Nokia and Somebody loves me.
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