It only takes hearing a tiny burst of searing guitars at the start of their brand-new single ‘Most Hated Girl’ for you to know… WAAX are back in a big, big way.
The first new music from the Brisbane five-piece juggernaut in over 18 months needed to be a hell of a statement to blow off the cobwebs and suffice it to say the band’s legion of fans aren’t going to be disappointed one iota.
“‘Most Hated Girl’ was definitely a COVID song that came out of the first lockdown in April of 2020,” says WAAX singer/songwriter Maz DeVita of writing the blistering new cut. “I was feeling pretty low and pretty hysterical and not very good about myself, and I felt that I really needed to write because I hadn’t been writing much at that time because COVID got in the way of my motivation.
“A week before that, I was staying with my parents through the first lockdown, and we were going through the garage, and I found a diary from when I was 16. I went through and read it, and I was like, ‘Oh, I haven’t really changed that much. I’m pretty much the same fucking person,’ and it was just kind of a potent thing. I hadn’t read anything I’d written as a teenager in so long, so I didn’t even know what to expect. It was just an interesting thing to know that I’m still kind of the same person at the core of it.
“Fast forward to a week later when I was having this emotional moment and wanting to write a song, that memory popped through, and I started writing about that experience and how it doesn’t matter how many years go by, you can still be the same person and at the end of the day the way that you see yourself doesn’t actually change too much. When I was younger, I felt so socially isolated, and I felt that I had this idea that everyone hates me. I guess the one wisdom I’ve taken away over the years is that usually that’s all to do with the way you see yourself, and I’m the most hated girl according to me, and it’s not to do with anyone else.”
LISTEN TO ‘MOST HATED GIRL’ HERE
Along with new music, WAAX is set to return to the road this year, with a string of Queensland shows just announced, with plans for more national touring once COVID restrictions ease. The idea of playing shows again has DeVita, and the band hyped, as they can’t wait to be reconnected with fans and what they see as the most important achievement of their career to date.
WAAX QUEENSLAND 2021 TOUR DATES:
Tickets available from https://linktr.ee/WAAXBAND
THU 23 SEP | BURLEIGH BAZAAR, BURLEIGH HEADS
SAT 25 SEP | THE TIVOLI, BRISBANE
THU 28 OCT | GILLIGAN’S, CAIRNS
FRI 29 OCT | JCU UNI BAR, TOWNSVILLE
SAT 30 OCT | SEABREEZE, MACKAY
SUN 31 OCT | LEICHHARDT HOTEL, ROCKHAMPTON