Miss June's New Video Was Inspired By Slicing Someone Open

Twitch is the latest single from Miss June, brainchild of Annabel Liddell. She wrote Twitch as a reflection on life and death—concepts that she encountered fairly directly, in the operating theatre as a med student.

“I am in my last year of training to qualify as a doctor and I wrote this in my head during the first time I operated on a living person—there is a lot of room for thought as a student in a silent operating theatre,” Liddell says.

“This song is an anthem for mortality and human relation. In medical school, we practice dissection on cadavers, which are drained of blood and of course—dead. During my first ever general surgery placement we cut open a patient and their arm twitched. I screamed from getting such a fright that the person was alive. Naturally, most of the nurses found this hilarious.

The experience, she says, “threw me into a bit of an existential crisis about my own mortality and the power dynamics that exist between being a flawed person and yet somewhat capable of trying to fix something faulty within other living beings.”

This is the first single from Miss June’s debut album 'Bad Luck Party', set for release later this year. They’ll be touring Australia in May.