The track is from the artist’s long awaited debut EP Making Friends.
With the release of her engrossing highly anticipated debut EP Making Friends, Norwegian indie rock artist Bo Milli has released her most complete and exciting body of work to date, documenting her experience coming of age over the last two years with a stellar collection of tracks.
One of these is her new single ‘Chewing Gum’, a fun and playful new single that sees the artist disregarding a past lover with a macho, transparent kind of faux-indifference that many listeners will be able to relate to. This whole feeling of having to “win” and be the one who is unaffected and fine after such a fall out is something that has had many putting on their bravest face and stoic, but the fragility in the artist’s tone and lyrics hints at cracks in her armour, making for a multi-faceted and charming release that is packed full of nuance and appeal. Bo Milli’s alternative indie rock style feels as razor sharp and poised as ever here, feeling both emphatic and tentative as and when the track calls for it.
‘Chewing Gum’ is a macho-anthem expressed with unconvincing and plastic girl-power: totally unapologetic about having used and dropped someone as carelessly as if they were a piece of gum. “I excuse this behaviour with the line “I’m a woman, I’ve gotta get it done,” Milli says, as she continues: “The choruses (and the solo) is all bravado, but the verses describe meeting a scorned lover with someone new and hints I’m not nearly as unaffected as I claim to be.”
