Doechii Is Feeling the Stress in ‘Nervousness’ Music Video

Doechii is feeling the stress in her newest music video.

On Friday, April 18, the Grammy winner launched the music video for her track “Nervousness” which pays homage to Gotye and Kimbra’s “Anyone That I Used to Know,” the 2011 track she sampled.

Within the music video that finds Doechii, 26, caught in her personal head and battling with forces past her management. She is carried between rooms in her home the place issues catch on hearth, folks break in via her home windows and furnishings is being moved.

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Individuals run via her home, a chandelier breaks and she or he dances outdoors in her underwear — not an unusual stress dream to have. The visuals exhibit worst-case situations and feeling trapped.

“Nervousness, carry on attempting me/I really feel it quietly, tryna silence me, yeah,” she sings within the chorus. “My nervousness, cannot shake it off of me/Anyone’s watchin’ me and my nervousness, yeah.”

Her real-life youthful twin sisters even make a cameo à la The Shining twins, per Cosmopolitan.

At one level, the digital camera pans over to a wall painted with two folks standing with kaleidoscopic make-up to match the wall. Followers of “Anyone That I Used to Know” will instantly acknowledge this visible from the unique music video.

The music video additionally features a reference to the origin of “Nervousness,” which Doechii recorded in her bed room in 2019. The “DENIAL IS A RIVER” singer recreated her bed room, together with the tapestry and and scorching pink storage bins.

She detailed the lore behind the track in March, which was initially a part of her self-released mixtape Coven Music Periods Vol. 1. She had uploaded the track on YouTube on the time however by no means introduced it to streaming platforms.

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Musician Sleepy Hallow then sampled Doechii’s track in his personal track, additionally titled “Nervousness,” and it “blew up.” “Individuals are discovering the unique model that I did on YouTube, and that is blowing up on TikTok. And now folks need me to launch the total model and we’re right here.”

The music video cleverly ends in an enormous loop with Doechii watching herself the entire time, nailing the concept oftentimes, nervousness could be in your head.

Doechii spoke to PEOPLE in March, utilizing the phrase “transformative” to explain her 2025 to this point, which included performing on the Grammys and successful the award for Greatest Rap Album in February.

“It has been transformative for me. Actually. All of my desires have turn out to be a actuality, and I really feel like I’m actually strolling in a dream,” she stated on the time.