WAAX Revive THAT High School 'S' In The Vid For Their New Single 'Most Hated Girl'

Brisbane punk giants WAAX have dropped a brand new single and video, teasing a major release coming listener's way in 2022.

Most Hated Girl is a personal analysis of self-doubt and anxiety for singer Maz DeVita - who stars in the clip as a singer looking for her own replacement by putting up posters all over town - complete with the classic pointed 'S' everyone drew in school.

Written in the midst of the 2020 lockdown, DeVita explained, “I was feeling pretty low and pretty hysterical and not very good about myself and I felt that I really needed to write because I hadn’t been writing much at that time because COVID got in the way of my motivation.

"A week before that I was staying with my parents through the first lockdown and we were going through the garage and I found a diary from when I was 16. I went through and read it and I was like, ‘Oh, I haven’t really changed that much. I’m pretty much the same fucking person,’ and it was just kind of a potent thing."

She continues, “Fast forward to a week later when I was having this emotional moment and wanting to write a song, that memory popped through and I started writing about that experience and how it doesn’t matter how many years go by, you can still be the same person and at the end of the day the way that you see yourself doesn’t actually change too much. 

"When I was younger I felt so socially isolated and I felt that I had this idea that everyone hates me. I guess the one wisdom I’ve taken away over the years is that usually that’s all to do with the way you see yourself and I’m the most hated girl according to me and it’s not to do with anyone else.”

Check out the video below.

WAAX have also announced a stack of Queensland dates for this month, kicking off at Burleigh Heads on Thursday 23 September and then heading to Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville, Mackay and Rockhampton. Check out theGuide for all the info.