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\u201cParasite\u201d premieres online this week.<\/p>\n
Photos courtesy of Miss Cherry Delight<\/p>\n
This is rock like you\u2019ve never seen before.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cParasite\u201d is the latest single from the New York City-based artist Miss Cherry Delight. Delight told amNewYork that the song dives into the feelings of inadequacy and what it sounds like when your inner voice agrees with the negative things that are being said about you.<\/p>\n
\u201cParasite is a four-year labor of love about what self-sabotage does to the psyche, what happens when you are out of your element in an environment where you aren\u2019t valued or seen, and what happens when you begin to believe the words of people who don\u2019t know you,\u201d said Delight.<\/p>\n
The song was written by Delight and Justin Mathews, who has frequently collaborated with Delight over the years, including her tracks \u201cCherry Blood\u201d and \u201cEat the Evidence.\u201d Mathews says that the song came about when both he and Delight were trying to shake off the post-pandemic haze they were in.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started a long time ago and it was a really slow-going process and not just because of finding time, but also because I think that we were sort of shaking off the sort of being stuck and trapped in pandemic feeling,\u201d said Mathews.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a song about self-sabotage, what it feels like when you cannot trust yourself to make the right decisions. What it feels like when you let down your loved ones or when you let down your coworkers, or when you let down anyone, the feeling of severely punishing yourself for things on the outside that may not seem so big to someone else, but are big to you because you expect a lot from yourself,\u201d said Delight.<\/p>\n
Having worked with Delight before, Mathews said that they both wanted to \u201cup the ante\u201d with \u201cParasite,\u201d both in terms of subject matter and in production quality.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you can hear in Parasite that there\u2019s a little more depth to the music, and we also were lucky enough to be able to get our live drummer, Jared Lippy. We were able to record him and get him on the track and on a few of the other songs, we were able to get live drums, which, you know, in today\u2019s like mini budget world, that\u2019s kind of a cool thing to just do a more traditional rock record,\u201d said Mathews. \u201cI really like that on the new record, and especially on \u2018Parasite,\u2019 that I was able to play around with some kind of heavy production techniques that I haven\u2019t been able to do with Cherry in the past. So I\u2019m pretty excited for it to be released.\u201d<\/p>\n
The music video for \u201cParasite\u201d is set to officially premiere on Fangoria, a horror-based publication, on Feb. 13. Directed by Brooklyn filmmaker and musician Dylan Mars Greenberg, the music video for \u201cParasite\u201d was shot entirely in Brooklyn and features a number of live bugs. (No bugs were harmed in the making of the video).<\/p>\n \u201cCherry came in with a really strong concept, so it was my job to bring it to life with the technical side of lighting and camera work and location,\u201d said Greenberg. \u201cI knew we had to have a really strong location, and this place, Gymnopedie, which was run by my associate Andrew, I realized would be the absolute perfect location. It has since been shut down, so I think it\u2019s a really great time capsule of that place.\u201d<\/p>\n Delight noted that the Fangoria team said that the video for \u201cParasite\u201d was unlike anything they had seen before.\n<\/p>\n \u201cI love that these people who are jaded said that my video is so gross, and not only did they want to feature it through the website, they also wanted to ask me about the behind-the-scenes of how we made it,\u201d said Delight.<\/p>\n The timing of the premiere is no coincidence, Delight told amNewYork. The date is not only Friday the 13th, but also right before Valentine\u2019s Day, with both days holding a special place in Delight\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n \u201cA Friday the 13th in February is a special occurrence, and having it the day before Valentine\u2019s Day is a perfect merge for my aesthetic. But the main reason I picked this as the release date is because the first Black Sabbath album dropped Friday, Feb. 13th, 1970. So this one\u2019s for Ozzy,\u201d said Delight.<\/p>\n In addition to the online premiere, live audiences will be able to watch the music video at Videodome<\/a>, a monthly short-film event hosted by Greenberg. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 12 at Rubulad in Bushwick.<\/p>\n \u201cThe timing worked out really well because Cherry wanted to launch the video around Valentine\u2019s Day, and my event Video Dome is always home to offbeat and strange new films and videos, so I felt that it would be a great opportunity to showcase to a live audience the day before it goes online,\u201d said Greenberg.<\/p>\n Both Delight and Mathews hope that the song will have a profound impact on those who give it a listen.\n<\/p>\n \u201cI think that this song represents a sort of slice of life at a really dark time, and again, not just like what was going on with the world, but I think she and I both had a pretty strong profound kind of negative reaction, maybe more than most, to being confined, to just having to hit pause on everything,\u201d said Mathews.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is my hope that this gives catharsis to everyone who was ever told they weren\u2019t good enough, and had a weak moment where they were terrified that it might be true,\u201d said Delight.<\/p>\n \u201cParasite\u201d is available for pre-save on Spotify<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t![\"Miss](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/processed-E1336B50-AF33-4618-A5C5-52AB92C5F541.jpeg\" "\\"New")
<\/a>Miss Cherry Delight as seen in the \u201cParasite\u201d music video.Photo courtesy of Miss Cherry Delight<\/p>\n