Our Basement,

I wrote “You Are Bad” to try to understand an intense and toxic conflict that took a long time to recover from.

I was feeling an overwhelming sense of guilt when I wrote this – guilty for the situation itself and my role in it, but also wondering if I needed to be guilty at all.

The reason why it was so important for me, is that I needed to find forgiveness – both for the other person involved and for myself.

I tried to express the arc of how my own personal train-of-thought would go; starting off in a sort of reflective, passive state, moving into a romanticising of the situation, then to anger and accusation towards the other person, followed by anger and accusation towards myself, and finally a truce of some sort.

This was my pattern of thinking that would happen over and over again.

Nicola Fuller directed the video for “You Are Bad,” where we sought to convey the measuring of blame during the end of a relationship.

Thank you for listening and for watching.
Laura Reznek