Doomsday

**DOOMSDAY** is the 2nd Neoni release of 2023, released February 10, 2023.

Listen to **DOOMSDAY**

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"We love to do a fun song really dark, and a heavy song super fun, just to mess with your brain."

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## Theme

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"We wrote a song about being irrationally sad for absolutely no reason"

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"In Chicken Little, the little kid always says 'The sky is falling'. In the movie the sky does actually fall (apparently), and basically, DOOMSDAY is about that mindset that the worst is yet to come. Triggered mostly by my anxiety and depression" - Caitlin in the **DOOMSDAY** Trailer.

"From my perspective, the song is about being constantly anxious or depressed in your life, even though everything is normal and fine. Everything from a textbook perspective is, if you were to write out your day, there isn't anything necessarily wrong, but it feels wrong. It feels like the end of the world. That's really what the song is about. We cover some heavy topics, it's a heavy one." - Sidney in the **DOOMSDAY** Trailer.

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**"I would say Bury Me alive or Doomsday (which isnt out yet)" - *Sidney*** *from **Neoni** when asked about the saddest song (thematically) they've written.*

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## Background

* In the video for OVER MY HEAD, it features people in morph suits held a piece of paper with the word "DOOMSDAY", teasing the next song.
* The song was announced on January 30, 2023, in a TikTok video.
* A second teaser was posted, featuring the chorus of **DOOMSDAY** on TikTok on February 2, 2023.
* A third teaser was posted on TikTok, with a little background behind the song, on February 6, 2023.
* A fourth teaser was posted on TikTok on February 7, 2023, of the first verse.
* They posted a short vocals-only version of **DOOMSDAY** on February 13, 2023.
* A promotional video for **DOOMSDAY** was posted on March 2, 2023, and March 10, 2023

## Leakage

* The song was confirmed on October 7, 2022, after Sidney confirmed they worked on it that week in the studio.
* The song was again confirmed on January 2, 2023 during a Discord Q&A with Neoni. There, they responded to a fan asking about songs with backstories. It's February release date was also mentioned during the Q&A.
* The song is one of their favorite songs.
* They tried to leak the chorus of Doomsday 3 times in a Discord Live after OVER MY HEAD, but all you could hear was the bass.
* A 22-second snippet of Doomsday was teased on the Neoni Discord during a snippet week on January 16 2023.

## Trivia

* On January 2, 2023, in a Discord QnA, Sidney said that DOOMSDAY is one of her favorites, in terms of the story behind it as well as in general.
	+ She also said that it was her favorite song that they've made was DOOMSDAY on December 9th.
* In the same QnA, Caitlin said that her favorite songs change, but that at the time it was a tie between DOOMSDAY and SUPERGLUE.
* DOOMSDAY Was teased in the music video for "OVER MY HEAD" where Sidney is holding a piece of paper with the word "DOOMSDAY" printed in big black letters several times on it.
* In the music video, the balloons represent the depression that's constantly hanging over you, which is why they chose to use black balloons.
	+ At the end of the video, the gray balloons on the floor were a "spur of the moment" decision and reminds them of their past depressions and the depressions of the past.
	+ When buying the balloons, they didn't know that there were different kinds of balloons, where some are helium balloons and some are not. So Caitlin ordered some balloons without reading, and when they went to get them filled, they found out there was a helium shortage, so they couldn't fill those balloons. So they filled up gray balloons (because she accidentally ordered gray instead of black balloons), where they were told that those balloons wouldn't stay filled. Then, they were told to get different balloons that can actually take helium, so she did, and in the end they ended up with 24 balloons instead of the 12 that they were initially planning on using. They immediately started sinking instead of staying in the air, which meant they ended up on the floor.
* The music video was directed by Carson Butcher and produced by Preston Long
* The video took a long time to film, they started at 9am and didn't wrap up until 5pm.

## Gallery

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## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://youtu.be/MUZoYYtK3JQ
2. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7194518271679286570?is\_from\_webapp=1&sender\_device=pc&web\_id=7157031650173421061
3. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7194518271679286570?is\_from\_webapp=1&sender\_device=pc&web\_id=7157031650173421061
4. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7197113067145137450?is\_from\_webapp=1&sender\_device=pc&web\_id=7157031650173421061
5. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7197495301479877931?is\_from\_webapp=1&sender\_device=pc&web\_id=7157031650173421061
6. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7199738973466529067
7. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7207544436413173035?is\_from\_webapp=1&sender\_device=pc&web\_id=7157031650173421061
8. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7209057948851604778?is\_from\_webapp=1&sender\_device=pc&web\_id=7157031650173421061