Horror Movies

**HORROR MOVIES** was the 17th Neoni song of 2021, and was released on October 15, 2021.

Listen to **HORROR MOVIES**

## Theme

“**HORROR** **MOVIES** *is about the monsters in your head feeling way worse than anything anyone’s ever put in a movie. It’s about the anxiety, stress and pressure of being in fearful situations and those feelings getting so much bigger and stronger. Adding monsters and things that go bump in the night, obviously don’t make these fears feel smaller or less scary. We’re not such big fans of horror movies ourselves, but I guess that shows how alike and intense we actually both are, and why we decided to write about them.”*

"I really dislike horror movies,' says Sidney. "They make my anxiety go through the roof, and then I can’t wind down for some reason. When we finished the movie, I looked at her [Caitlin], and she was so excited. She loved it. I had this off-the-wall idea of hating horror movies, and I knew exactly what it sounded like. It was one of those songs that spontaneously happened, but the main concept around it is I hate horror movies because I already have so much stress in my life and I don’t need more. Over these last two years, in particular, a lot of anxiety kicked in, so I don’t need a horror movie. I need a comedy. I need *Dumb and Dumber To*."

"The whole song is a little bit about being too intense,” says Caitlin.

#### The story behind HORROR MOVIES being written:

"I personally really hate horror movies, and that's the hook in the song, "I hate horror movies". And Caitlin loves horror movies, and so we're sitting down. We were watching *"Army of the Dead"*, which isn't even a horror movie, it's a zombie movie, but it's that tension, right? It's not even the jump scare, it's the tension before the jump scare that kills me. So we finished the movie and I say to Caitlin, 'I hate horror movies, why would you do that to me? I hate you'. And then she looked at me, and said, 'dude, we have sessions next week, we should write a song called "I hate horror movies"'. The reason I hate horror movies is because they make me anxious, and I'm already anxious, I'm already at a 10, I don't need to go to a 15." - *Neoni in a Discord LIVE after the OVER MY HEAD premiere.*

## Background

* **HORROR MOVIES** was announced on October 11, 2021.
* A short acoustic version of HORROR MOVIES was posted on October 18, 2021.

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Don't go down to the basement

We all know what's coming next

Murder with a little side of mayhem

But here I go again

[Pre-Chorus]

Is that blood on the wall?

Scream down the hall

Knees shaking so bad that I gotta crawl

All my ghosts are chasing

Why can't I escape them?

Hair raised on my neck

Careful where you step

'Cause if I keep going, I'm losing my head

I need a vacation

Or something to sedate them

[Chorus]

I hate horror movies

Yeah, so please don't ask me why

I hate horror movies

So damn much that I could die

I got Freddy, Freddy, Freddy in my mind

This movie's looking too much like my life

I hate horror movies

I hate horror movies

[Verse 2]
Shhh, I don't want to wake them

I'm hiding under the bed

And if you think that you'd be scared of Jason

You should meet the monsters in my head

[Pre-Chorus]

Is that blood on the wall?

Scream down the hall

Knees shaking so bad that I gotta crawl

All my ghosts are chasing

Why can't I escape them?

Hair raised on my neck

Careful where you step

'Cause if I keep going, I'm losing my head

I need a vacation

Or something to sedate them

[Chorus]

I hate horror movies

Yeah, so please don't ask me why

I hate horror movies

So damn much that I could die

I got Freddy, Freddy, Freddy in my mind

This movie's looking too much like my life

I hate horror movies

I hate horror movies

[Bridge]

Horror movies

I hate horror movies

Yeah, so please don't ask me why

I hate horror movies

Guess we're too much alike

[Outro]

I got Freddy, Freddy, Freddy in my mind

This movie's looking too much like my life

I hate horror movies

I hate horror movies

## References

1. ↑ http://cldkid.com/release/horrormovies/
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://americansongwriter.com/neoni-find-their-parallels-in-horror-movies/
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CU5OzRDr2dm/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link
4. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CVLQKvLDnzC/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link