Movie Night’s new single Addicted is a gripping musical descent into the throes of unhealthy obsession following a one-night-stand. The electro-rock-pop track hooks you instantly with its vibrant instrumentation and earworm melodies, but it’s the brutally honest lyricism that leaves you stunned.
The verses are confessional vignettes, with the narrator laying bare how a casual fling morphed into a terrifying addiction.
“It started out as just a simple little taste test”
“I’m losing my mind a little more in every moment”
Mike Squillante (guitar/vocals) vividly conveys the feeling of shame, desperation, and self-loathing as the obsession consumes him. Yet Movie Night doesn’t just revel in the angst. There are moments of self-awareness sliced through the chaos, recognising this as an “addiction affliction” he wishes was just fiction. The soaring choruses are pleas to be freed from vices’ stranglehold, his vocals strained with the effort of trying to “kick it.”
It’s this dynamic between unbridled desire and glimmers of lucidity that makes Addicted so potent. The euphoric melodies disguise the sinister undertones, mirroring how addictions can initially seem thrilling before their destructive hold is revealed.
On Addicted, the talented NYC trio, Movie Night, holds up the black mirror of toxic infatuation and doesn’t glamorise or revel in depravity; it shakes you by the shoulders until you’re forced to confront the unsettling reality that obsession is often the flip side of passion.
In peeling back the layers of human frailty, Movie Nights Addicted feels like a sonic labyrinth shaken but leaves you therapeutically purged.
