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Sun-soaked pop rock chameleons, Pretty Pity, return today with their latest single, “HELP“, a candid look at struggling with your mental health while refusing to admit you need support. Building on the band’s blend of pop, punk, and metal, “HELP” wrestles with self-doubt, stubborn independence, and the distractions that make it easier to avoid admitting something needs to change. Listen to “HELP” HERE.
Dealing with the ways distraction can pass for coping and how independence can become an excuse to keep people out, “HELP” takes on the impulse to keep everything to yourself, even when it’s making things worse. Balancing pop-rock hooks with punchy guitars and a sharp sense of humor, Pretty Pity use “HELP” as a loud, restless outlet.
On how writing “HELP” changed her approach to her mental health, vocalist Tani Jade shares:
“Our new single HELP dives deep into my personal experiences with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and panic disorder. The song speaks on my struggle to ask for help even when I know I need it, and the coping mechanisms I use instead. It highlights a self awareness of burying heavy emotions deep down until they eat you alive. It feels easier for me to self isolate when I spiral like this, and though I know that reaching out and talking to someone would help, the fear of judgement tells me to hide myself away.
HELP also speaks about the ego, and sometimes pretentiousness, that keeps me from asking for help with projects and/or tasks because I fear either looking incapable or that whomever I give the task to won’t do it, what I consider to be, the “right” way. This refusal to ask for help stacks up until I experience a level of burnout that completely shuts my body down for a few days. Talking through these emotions with the guys while finding the best ways to express these feelings in the lyrics was so freeing and actually inspired me to start therapy which, not surprisingly, has been incredibly helpful in allowing me to learn to process feelings, ask for help, and let go of control. To anyone who relates to these feelings, I hope this song helps you as much as it’s helped me.”
Quickly becoming a name to know, Pretty Pity has been turning heads with a sound that borrows from metal, punk, and classic rock all while landing on unbelievably catchy pop records. Hot off the heels of a landmark summer that included appearances at Orlando’s Summer School and Summerfest, plus a tour supporting Royale Lynn, Pretty Pity will play a handful of shows in November and December before joining Youth Fountain for an 10-date support run in February.
