Anti-Hero

Self-directed anxiety taken to its extreme — the speaker diagnoses herself as the problem in every scenario and cannot escape the verdict. 'It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me' is a distillation of anxious self-blame performed as pop chorus: the thought loop made public.

Intrusive thoughts externalised into a persona — the 'monster on the hill' is the internal critical voice given a body and a name. The recurring nightmare sequence enacts the thought-loop as performance: the thought that will not stop becomes the chorus that will not stop.