
dodie, mxmtoon, Matilda Mann and more celebrate Chet Baker's legacy with a new tribute album
Fifteen contemporary artists reimagine jazz legend Chet Baker's classic songs.

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Dodie's 'Hate Myself' is a study in the anxieties that bloom in silence. The track finds her spiralling through the gaps she fills in conversations, constructing problems where none may exist. When you go quiet, I hate myself, she repeats, the refrain catching the particular torture of reading absence as rejection, of treating a partner's silence as a mirror for her own inadequacy. It's a song about passive aggression and the way anxiety nests in the spaces between people. The song sits within a larger portrait of self-doubt and overthinking. Across the album, dodie writes with brutal honesty about the insecurities that drive her to apologise for being herself, to prove her worth through constant emotional labour. Here, she names the mechanism: the illogical leap from quiet to condemnation, the brain on fire whilst the body stays still. A Dork four-star record, the album frames these confessions as diary entries, intimate and unflinching, delivered through her haunting vocal ability. The string arrangements that bind the record together lend 'Hate Myself' a sweeping melancholy, but the song's real power lies in how precisely it captures the self-sabotage that runs through early adulthood, the way we learn to hate ourselves before anyone else gets the chance.
"Hate Myself" is a single by dodie, from the album Build A Problem, released 6th May 2021. The track is 3:28 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 10 articles about dodie.
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Fifteen contemporary artists reimagine jazz legend Chet Baker's classic songs.

The four-track record was released last Friday, September 30th.

The four-track EP is coming later this month.

Her first new material of 2022, it follows up on last year's debut album 'Build A Problem'.

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