“Medusa” is one of those songs on the cusp of many sonic worlds. A pop song that tips over into the heavier rock realms? A gothic ballad clawing its way back toward the light? A dance groove being put to work to say something meaningful? A profound and timely piece of social commentary? Well, all those and more, really. And it is this post-genre approach to sounds and style that SkyDxddy has always excelled in; music for the modern age.
But more than just music that resonates with modernity, here is a song that captures one of the most critical issues of the moment. Written in the wake of the overturning of the Roe v Wade ruling, a situation which restricts women’s bodily autonomy and potentially criminalizes them for choices related to reproductive health, a situation now thrown into even more profound, deeper, and darker water with a second Trump presidency looming, this is a timely song indeed.
The video comes in the form of a brilliant metaphor, SkyDxddy herself taking the role of the titular monster subjected to Athena’s curse for the crime of having been violated by the god Posiedon and brilliantly echoing how society often blames the female victims of assault rather than punishing the perpetrator.
SkyDxddy makes music that matters. Not only music that blurs the lines of style and genre but by writing powerful and poignant songs that comment on society and politics, people and power. “Medusa” is SkyDxddy at her finest.
