Grammy-winning singer and rapper Doechii released the song “Anxiety”, which she initially performed in a “Coven Music Session” video released on YouTube four years ago.
“Anxiety” samples the Gotye hit “Somebody That I Used to Know” and Doechii’s track was eventually sampled in Sleepy Hallow’s “Anxiety.” ore recently, Doechii’s song has inspired a TikTok trend where one person dances, thinking they are alone, and a second person joins them, dancing in sync. She went on to break the internet by reuniting Fresh Prince of Bel-Air siblings Will Smith and Tatyana Ali as they take part in the viral dance trend inspired by their show – and her song, with Doechii making a surprise cameo in a new video posted by Smith as the actors recreate the widely imitated scene from a classic episode. “Waited 35 years for this dance to trend,” Smith wrote along with the clip.
Doechii, 26, took to Instagram to explain the origins of her new release: “Okay, so I’m going to break down this lore to people who don’t understand it …My song is using the sample of ‘Somebody I Used to Know’ and then I took that beat — ‘Somebody I Used to Know’ — and I made my own song on top of it called ‘Anxiety’ so then I dropped that song on YouTube. It never hit streaming and then Sleepy Hallow sampled that, it got approved and then that song blew up and now people are finding the original version that I did on YouTube and that’s blowing up on TikTok,” she continued. “…. And now people want me to release the full version and we’re here and I’m releasing it and it’s coming out, so ya’ll can enjoy the full version and that’s the lore behind ‘Anxiety.’”
Stream Anxiety – HERE.
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