SPIDER has today dropped brand new single “straight out the oven !” a track from her new EP an object of desire, which drops in 2024. The multi-hyphenate has picked up widespread acclaim for DIY coming-of-age themed projects COA and HELL OR HIGH WATER, having since made her live debut opening for Blackpink at BST as well as touring with Lynks, Jessica Winter, Tycho Jones and Connie Constance.

Written, produced and played entirely by SPIDER, at first glance (she says) “straight out the oven !” “presents itself as a fun, catchy “blonde, sorority girl who doubles as an over-the-top cheerleader” rock song. Which it is! But it’s also a really honest conversation that I was having with myself about the desire to be desired, and confronting the types of people we go to for that validation. It’s that need that we all have to be irresistible – but asking yourself, why do I want these specific people to desire me in the first place? I produced and wrote the entire thing on my own which definitely gave me the space to explore that part of myself without having to hide it behind a complicated metaphor.”

In SPIDER’s words, “an object of desire really encapsulates the questions I was asking myself about objectification, desire and intimacy as an ex Catholic school student who grew up in a very religious household. Looking at these three things through the lens of religious trauma and Catholic guilt felt like looking at the Unholy Trinity of Young Adulthood. Like, when does desire start being desire? What is actually so intimate about sex and what is sex when it doesn’t feel intimate? You’ve realised you’ve been objectified – well okay, but what do you do about it? I feel like this particular view on sexuality isn’t really talked about much, and I just had all these questions that no one could answer for me. Writing this EP was a way for me to explore the conclusions that were put there by a religious upbringing that covered this area of life in so much shame and nonsensical conditions. It also allowed me to process the anger I had towards the ways I was mistreated in the past without the pressure of maintaining “grace”. This project feels like the most personal, freeing thing I’ve made thus far!”

SPIDER grew up in a strict Nigerian-Catholic household in which gig-going was banned. The artist instead sought community online, running pop band stan accounts and witnessing the connective possibilities of creating work in her own voice. She took her eight-legged alias from the lessons of African spirituality and folklore – here the spider is the totemic symbol of strong feminine energy, and embodied SPIDER’s increasingly-timely belief that only you can weave your future. She moved to London aged 18, penning her COA project, honesty over consequence in childhood, relationships or Art: a spirit vividly rendered in ‘AMERICA’s NEXT TOP MODEL’, SPIDER’s rousing call for black representation across alternative music and prominent online platforms.

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