Your Dog Soccer Mommy

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From Soccer Mommy’s upcoming debut album, Clean
I will not use the body’s eyes today. EP
Sophie Allison, the Nashville native who records as Soccer Mommy , has been packing pipe dreams and heartache into hushed bedroom-pop ballads since 2015. She hit her stride on last year’s EP, Collection , by recalibrating her sound with a full backing band and extracting herself from the “sad girl” pigeonhole of her earlier work. Now, with her new single “Your Dog,” Allison seems miles away from her soft-spoken past. The song is the first taste of her upcoming debut album, Clean , and in it, Allison parses new emotional terrain: complete, unfettered frustration.
“I don’t wanna be your little pet/At the edge of every bed you sleep in,” Allison sings heatedly. Leaning into the pet metaphor to describe her fury at being pushed to the periphery, she taps into a bitter punk attitude, but maintains a cozy indie-pop aesthetic: A charming, twisted guitar riff surfaces between every verse, and breathy multi-tracked vocals cushion the blow of her harsh words. The vulnerability in Allison’s music hasn’t gone totally missing—after all, admitting to feeling invisible requires courage—but she’s not letting it stop her from taking charge. With “Your Dog,” Soccer Mommy serves up an emboldened anthem for those stuck in the vicious cycle of settling for less. Spurned lovers, shout it from the rooftops: “I don’t wanna be your fucking dog!”
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I don't wanna be your fucking dog
That you drag around
A collar on my neck tied to a pole
Leave me in the freezing cold

I don't wanna be your little pet
At the edge of every bed
You sleep in, body stretching out
Guess I'll curl up on the couch

Always talk to other people
Dart my eyes across the room
Forehead kisses break my knees and
Leave me crawling back to you

'Cause I don't wanna be your fucking dog
That you drag around
A collar on my neck tied to a pole
Leave me in the freezing cold

Always talk to other people
Dart my eyes across the room
Forehead kisses break my knees and
Leave me crawling back to you

'Cause I don't wanna be your baby girl
That you show off to the world and
When you decide you wanna feel
Like you're living something real

I'm not a prop for you to use
When you're lonely or confused
I want a love that lets me breathe
I've been choking on your leash

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Like a music box that never starts dancing by itself
What a broken world, what a broken world
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I ain't giving up tonight
Even if you walk around
As though you think you're right
At your worst you still believe
It's worth the fight

I could make it all go away
Tell...
Sky Ferreira - "Everything Is Embarrassing" (I know you're trying)

Everything and nothing always haunts me
I know you're trying, I know you're trying
Waiting for your moment to fall on me
I saw you trying, I saw you trying

Maybe if you let...
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I will have made it and you'll be explaining what you think the world owes you
Looking for someone to carry you into
Futures that beckon but need to be followed...
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(See me look away)
I'm the runaway
I'm the stay out late
I'm recovering
Kid, at the top of our street
I was somewhat like him
I was somebody

Comeback kid!
Comeback,...

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Soccer Mommy Doesn't Want To Be 'Your Dog' The first single from Sophie Allison's forthcoming album Clean is both a post-breakup kiss-off and an anthem demanding respect and agency.

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In the visceral music video for "Your Dog," the first single from Soccer Mommy 's forthcoming album Clean , we find Sophie Allison glassy-eyed and numb in the moments after a violent outburst. Directed by Weird Life , the film functions as a bleakly humorous horror flick illustrating the sudden, heartbreaking ending of a relationship which had long since soured. And in its bloody aftermath, we catch glimpses of the conflicting emotions that wash over her as she clumsily tries to get rid of her ex's body — from deadened disconnection to joyful freedom to a fleeting tinge of regret. The video's imagery is playfully odd and unsettling at times, but it illuminates and mirrors the themes at play in "Your Dog."
In many Soccer Mommy songs, Allison sings with a captivating sense of yearning as she ruminates on the wounded ache of love, the uncertainty of youth and restless wanderlust. "Your Dog" channels those insecurities into strength: "I don't want to be your f****** dog that you drag around," Allison forcefully opens, unfurling pent-up grievances about feeling mistreated, underestimated and held back as the obedient companion in a relationship. "'Cause I don't wanna be your baby girl that you show off to the world ... I'm not a prop for you to use when you're lonely or confused / I want a love a love that lets me breathe / I've been choking on your leash," she sings amid fuzzy chords and shimmering guitar melodies.

Soccer Mommy's album, Clean , comes out March 2 on Fat Possum .

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Soccer Mommy's album, Clean , comes out March 2 on Fat Possum .
The Nashville-based Allison says she considers Clean less as a follow-up to 2017's Collection , which re-recorded songs from EPs released on Bandcamp , and more as her true first album. Soccer Mommy's spare intimacy remains, yet a song like "Your Dog" is loud and energized. It's enlivened by producer Gabe Wax, whose studio allowed Allison a broader instrumental palette, from the propulsive bass and drums to the glittery synths and atmospherics. With dreamy breakdowns building to a distorted peak, the song carries an edge equal to the weight of Allison's words.
"The song comes from a feeling of being paralyzed in a relationship to the point where you feel like you are a pawn in someone else's world," Allison writes in a press release. "The song and the video are meant to show someone breaking away and taking action, but at the same time, it's only a quick burst of motivation. It's a moment of strength amidst a long period of weakness."
While the blunt personal details and black comedy deployed in the video presents "Your Dog" as a post-breakup kiss-off, it's impossible to not also consider this an anthem suited for these times. It's a song reclaiming agency and identity taken by another other person's condescension, control and abuse. And as she makes this empowering demand for respect, Sophie Allison firmly establishes herself as a vital musical voice we'll be turning to in the years to come.
Clean comes out March 2 on Fat Possum .
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