With a focus on creating music that has a distinctive level of courageous honesty, musician Sody has been gradually built out a catalogue of music that feels a little thrilling for the sheer willingness to say it like it is. Hers is an approach to emotional pop music that has helped score Sody a growing fanbase, and her delivery manages to strike a balance between both melody and emotion. Her sound is raw, and yet infectious and catchy.
Bitch (I Said It) deals with the point in a relationship where you call it quits and leverage your anger as a way to push a damaging person away, an act of self-preservation. Sody opens the song looking to apologise, yet feeling she is doing so on behalf of the recipient, who hasn’t themselves recognised any wrongdoing. There can be a pressure in intense relationships to fill the emotional space that follows a disagreement, to be the person who turns the other cheek. But it often leaves the root issue unaddressed, and continuing to simmer.
Here on Bitch, Sody’s simmer becomes a boil — the strength of feeling in her swear-ridden chorus both impassioned and inspiring. Describing the song, Sody says:
“After years of releasing music about my sadness, Bitch (I Said It) takes me into this new, angrier phase. I do see the good in people a lot, but there are only so many times you can put up with someone treating you badly. This song has given me new confidence and has enabled me to channel my emotions into a sort of cheeky rage rather than crying into my pillow energy. It’s the realisation that you’re actually better off without them, and now you can scream it from the rooftops!”
Check out Sody’s Bitch (I Said It) below and catch her live shows at London’s Omeara on 4th & 5th October 2021.