Sizzy Rocket is redefining Y2K resurgence and the punk revival in her own way.
LA-based rock-influenced, pop supergirl Sizzy Rocket had just released another single, “Bubblegum” off of her upcoming album, Live Laugh Love. Driven by distorted electric guitar chords and solos, accentuated with 808s and Sizzy’s metallic vocal, “Bubblegum” carries the kind of grudge that we haven’t heard since the 2000s New York garage rock scene. Compared to the disco-charged, power club mix that is “Rebel Revolution,” or the absolute slay and frenzy of “Wendy’s Parking Lot” and “Live Laugh Love,” the new single somehow has even more edge. Something about the way Sizzy drags out her annunciation of “SMACK” in the chorus just feels different, quite frankly, it is indeed “All up in your face.”
Sizzy herself explains the rage that gives the song its attitude, “when I wrote this song, it was summer 2020 and we had set up a makeshift studio in an Airbnb in Yucca Valley. There was so much chaos going on in Los Angeles, I just needed to get away from it. I was drinking a lot of rosé because I was going through a break up, and I was really hungover and I was just sick of it all. And I actually smacked myself across the face, hard. So hard it left a bruise. I didn’t mean to but it just happened… It was like I needed to get myself to wake up and stop wallowing and stop wasting my love and my time and get out there into the world and really live my life. And not in some fucking TikTok way. I was just so fucking fed up and it all just came out at once”.
Sure enough, much of that sentiment carries through the music video for “Bubblegum.” Paranoia washes over Sizzy as she traverses through the tunnels of NYC subway in leather, latex and fish net leggings. But within that paranoia is so much confidence and knowingness of what she wants. The world might be spinning out of control, but Sizzy embodies the whirlwind better than anyone else.
