Lola Young “SPIDERS”: fear, desire, and a grunge glow

“SPIDERS” finds Lola Young telling the truth in a raw and vulnerable format.

The verses move like a late-night confession, the chorus bites, and the guitars thicken just enough to let the vocal fray at the edges.

She circles a private bargain: take this weight off my hands, prove it instead of saying it, make the room feel safe.

When the spiders show up, the image works twice. It is the literal fear she has spoken about, and it is the crawl of anxious thoughts in a bed you want to share.

The song sits in a mellow pocket, letting small details tell the story with clean guitar figures, patient drums, and air around the lines.

By the last run, the track swells, but the lyric is still wrestling with the same need.

That contrast is part of the pull. Turning it up does not mean the fear lets go.

“SPIDERS” arrived on 5 September 2025 through Day One Music and Island as another preview of I’m Only F**king Myself, due 19 September.

“SPIDERS” was written by Lola Young with Jared Solomon (SOLOMONOPHONIC) and William Brown (Manuka), produced by SOLOMONOPHONIC and Manuka. 

The official video is directed by Conor Cunningham and opens with a spider placed on Young’s palm.

On the platforms, the framing mirrors the song’s tension: minimal plot, close performance, one idea pushed until it stings.

There is clear author intent in how she speaks about it. “Sometimes you want to kill what you’re most scared of in life, but when you actually face up to it, it’s really not as scary as you thought it would be,” she says in the single’s press note.

In an email to fans, she adds that she held a spider for the video and that the process cured her arachnophobia. 

She also calls “SPIDERS” her favourite on the album and says it still makes her cry when she hears it.

Those lines give the metaphor weight; the on-camera moment is not a stunt for shock value, it is part of the point.

Early reaction shows two currents. On Reddit and socials, listeners highlight the passionate vocal, the grungy guitar colour, and the delivery, with several calling it the strongest single of the rollout. 

Elsewhere, desks underline the album arc of self-sabotage and fear, and Spanish coverage frames the song as a fight with autosabotaje. 

Debate clusters around the chorus, where she sings “I’m not a woman if I don’t have you,” then flips the idea onto him.

That pairing ties identity to being chosen, which some listeners reject and others recognise.

Across the album, she keeps the core circle tight with Manuka and SOLOMONOPHONIC.

The roll-out runs through a September record-store tour, sold-out UK dates in October, North America in November, and Europe in 2026. 

Our take: this is one of the keepers in the run-up to I’m Only F**king Myself.

The chorus is built to provoke, the arrangement leaves human marks on the vocal, and the video turns a metaphor into an action you cannot wave away.

If the album keeps that mix of bite and bruised clarity, Young’s grunge-glow pop should travel beyond a single.

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