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Oakland multidisciplinary artist Star Amerasu, a.k.a. AM MER AH SU, today shared a new club edit of her grief-stricken song "Klonopin." The track is about processing the horrors of trauma through drug use, and where the original version's slower pace mirrored feelings of introspection, this uptempo version suggests a process of working things out on the dancefloor. Its climax in the latter half brings a dizzying feeling of temporary release, or what might be better described as distraction, although it's indisputably still tinged with sadness.The artist told THUMP about the track's backstory over email. "'Klonopin' was written during a dark time in my life, after the passing of a friend when I felt a lot of anxiety around death," she said. "I was just popping molly and taking Klonopin to stave off the imminent panic attacks that would hit so often. Grief is a hard thing to do and losing someone you love is rough. This was my song for letting myself be okay with not being okay."The original version of "Klonopin" was released on Amerasu's recent Rebecca EP. This rework will come out on an EP of Rebecca remixes due out later this year.
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