Premiere: THRILL YOU KILL YOU, ‘THRILL YOU KILL YOU’

Kevin Bronson on April 30th, 2019

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Thrill You Kill You (Photo by Tony Farfalla & Carly Foulkes)

In her days in clubs and on tour as DJ Fei-Fei, Fei-Fei Wang seduced crowds with trance and techno music, even deep-diving into the electronic world by releasing an album of original tunes five years ago. Her new iteration as an in-your-face rocker in THRILL YOU KILL YOU is at once a startling reinvention and a rejection of “a version of me that I thought the world wanted to see,” she says.

It did not happen overnight. Setting her decks aside, the singer-songwriter learned guitar, took vocal lessons and studied sound engineering. Last fall, TYKY released its debut EP, led by the pulse-quickening electro-rock singles “Never Even Really” and “Riding on Your Misery.” Fei-Fei returns this week with her project’s titular song, “THRILL YOU KILL YOU,” a surging collision of pop and punk that makes being wounded by the darts of love seem … well, thrilling.

“This song is about being addicted to the pain in love,” Fei-Fei says. “It’s the ecstatic thrill of being betrayed — that heart-pounding mania when you lose your breath and feel the world close in on you. It’s the connection between peaks of bliss and the depths of despair that fuck you up forever but also make you feel alive. It’s power in vulnerability and the joy of getting your heart get ripped in two. Can love exist without pain?”

As somebody wrote once, love hurts. As the video for the single (out this week) suggests, it might even make you write stuff on your body.

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