NYC singer and songwriter Mimi Oz isn’t afraid to highlight vulnerability and personal struggle, as her brand new album ‘Growing Pains’ clearly illustrates.
A surreal new music video was recently released to promote lead single ‘Hate’, created as a collaboration with Oz and music video director Dylan Mars Greenberg.
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“Hate” is the new single and video taken from Growing Pains. The record covers a wide stylistic terrain, with “Hate” on the edgier side of that spectrum. Accompanied by virile guitar, Oz’s vocals are both strong and passionate.
The song appears on Oz’s third studio record, Growing Pains, released October 22. “All my life, I tried to live outside the hate,” she huffs in almost a dream state, then caterwauls, “I see the hate you feel for me,” as electric guitar intensifies into a rolling boil. Oz reaches her hand through space and time to appeal to our collective sadness and the pressures of modern living and dying. With drums played by Miles Gibbons and guitar from David Celia, Oz conjures up a “perfect hollow space where you can feel the intensity of the lyrics, and everything hits hard and together and pulls you along. There is also a sense of violence, and I wanted to somehow explore that in the video but it didn’t end up turning out that way.”
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