Debbie Downer

**DEBBIE DOWNER** is Neoni's fourth release in 2023. It was released on April 21, 2023.

Listen to **DEBBIE DOWNER**

## Theme

> "It's very summer vibes. But like, depresso summer vibes. It's not even depressing, just very frustrated. The whole song is tongue-in-cheek, it's very ironic. We're bullshitting the whole time, and it's so fun".
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"So it's called **Debbie Downer**, and that sounds like it'd be super moody and bummed out, but it sounds like a good time. Does it actually sound bummed out? **Debbie Downer** is kind of like a funny title. I mean, it's kind of funny, also sounds sad. Very much, like, F my life, everything's going south, everything's too hard, which is, you know, it's how we feel sometimes. And every single emotion needs a song. If you've ever just decided maybe, in the middle of the night, I'm just gonna pack up, move to a different country, change my name and raise llamas, this song is for you.
That's what the whole first verse is about, and as the song continues, it evolves into what you think is going wrong with the world and in your life, and how you're gonna react to it, which very poorly. It's never good, it's extremely poor. I feel like a lot of songs are about how to better yourself, and how there's hope and those are great songs, and we need those, but then sometimes we also just need a song for when you're not feeling like you want to feel better, you just want to live in this feeling for 3 minutes and 40 something seconds. It's venting, it's venting. It's like popping a zit, you gotta get the negativity out."

> "Frustrated, screaming from your soul how everything in your life is going to shit"
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"The inspiration is that sometimes I feel like life is shit, and I was feeling like life is shit that day and instead of being sad about it we wrote a funny little tune called DEBBIE DOWNER. I don't know if any of you guys experience it, some days I wake up and throw my entire life away, move away and change my name." - Sidney in a Discord LIVE after the DEBBIE DOWNER premiere.

## Background

* A snippet of the second verse was posted to Neoni's Discord server on January 18, 2023.
* A snippet was attempted to be played during a Neoni LIVE after the HAPPY EVER AFTER premiere, but cut out.
* A Discord exclusive snippet of **Debbie Downer** was posted on April 4, 2023.
* The song was announced in a TikTok on April 7, 2023, along with a snippet of the chorus.
* Another snippet was posted in a TikTok on April 11, 2023.
* When promoting the song on TikTok where they showed a trope that fit the theme of their songs, **DEBBIE DOWNER** was linked to the "Grumpy X Sunshine" trope.

## Lyrics

[Verse]

I wanna toss my social currency

Pack up my shit get up and leave

Reckless abandon everything

And move where no would ever think

To check

Cause I tried my best

Think it’s time to eject

I don’t think I’m suited

For society

My anxiety

Is certifiably

Gonna be the death of me

[Pre Chorus]

So stop the world

Let me off

I wish you all

The best of luck

This is where the music stops

[Chorus]

I’m a Debbie Debbie downer

So forgive me if I’m sour

But we’re worse off by the hour

Sick of everything

Guess I gotta be

Be a Debbie Debbie downer

So forgive me if I’m sour

Maybe it’s my super power

Guess I’ll be a Debbie downer

[Verse]

This world feels like a dumpster fire

All filled with self aggrandized liars

Try to find something I admire

I took to long my time expired

No peace

For you and me

The retirees

Are starting up world war 3

Goodbye society

It was fun I think

This is literally

Gonna be the death of me

[Pre Chorus]

So stop the world

Let me off

I wish you all

The best of luck

This is where the music stops

[Chorus]

I’m a Debbie Debbie downer

So forgive me if I’m sour

But we’re worse off by the hour

Sick of everything

Guess I gotta be

Be a Debbie Debbie downer

So forgive me if I’m sour

Maybe it’s my super power

Guess I’ll be a Debbie downer

[Bridge]

We’re all fucked

I’d say it was fun

But it wasn’t

Maybe we had it coming

We’re all fucked

I would say it was fun

But it wasn’t

Maybe we had it coming

[Chorus]

I’m a Debbie Debbie downer

So forgive me if I’m sour

But we’re worse off by the hour

Sick of everything

Guess I gotta be

Be a Debbie Debbie downer

So forgive me if I’m sour

Maybe it’s my super power

Guess I’ll be a Debbie downer

## Trivia

* It was teased in the HAPPY EVER AFTER music video on a sign in the background

* It's the first Neoni song in a major key.
* Sidney said that she thinks that DEBBIE DOWNER has the most fun lyric that they've ever written.
* It's confirmed to be the first Neoni song to have the word "fuck" said by them (Excluding Dead To Me and PINKY PROMISE as they don't say it in that, the collaborator does), and that it's in the bridge.
* It has Sidney's favorite bridge they've ever written (though this is the second time she has said this after saying that UNDERGROUND's bridge was her favorite).
* The song was written pretty quickly.
* One of Caitlin's favorite lines is in this song - "The retirees are starting up World War Three".
* The bed wasn't green screened, they carried it around, put it in a truck and drove it around to different locations.
	+ The bed didn't fit into the truck, it was hanging out the back, they had to strap down the bed in the back of the pickup truck.
* "For the levitating, it required a lot of ab strength that I don't have" - Sidney about the levitating in the video during a Neoni Live after the premiere of DEBBIE DOWNER.
	+ The way the levitating was done was by laying backwards over a "bench thing" and then they would get a clean shot without them in and then Carson (the "video guy") would overlay the two videos to make it appear as though they're levitating.

## Gallery

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## Sources

1. ↑ https://youtu.be/hSlZtOfSIYA
2. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7219387252877561130?is\_from\_webapp=1&sender\_device=pc&web\_id=7157031650173421061
3. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7220840818918165803?is\_from\_webapp=1&sender\_device=pc&web\_id=7157031650173421061
4. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7241991727287061806
5. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7229016206919945518?browserMode=1