Mad Tsai - teenage nightmare (Official Music Video)

hi my loves,

my new EP “teenage nightmare!” is finally yours. go stream and cry your eyes out with me.

a year ago, i was the most depressed i’d been in years. i wasn’t talking to friends, i didn’t want to write music, and i felt like i was going to completely disappear.

but now, in this moment, i feel so much joy and pride in being an artist and being able to give you this project.

this EP took blood, sweat, and tears to create as an independent artist. writing every song while i was still in school, creating treatments for the music videos, and building the world around “teenage nightmare!” was a painstaking process. i’m sitting here, crying as i’m typing this, because i’m happy to say that this project is now out in the world.

this EP is the story of me reconciling with my teenage years, rewriting myself as the main character of a teenage movie that i never really saw myself in. i was dealt with so much trauma growing up and i never really learned how to process it all, but this project helped me heal from those wounds and mature. i wrote this EP for my young fans who might be currently going through adolescence, but it’s also what i wished to say to my younger self— the confused and angry **** kid from the suburbs of california.

thank you to drew polovick and andrew luce for being my main collaborators on this project and seeing this project all the way through with me. you guys are the most talented and awesome producers and artist could ask for. thank you to graham cruser for mixing the hundreds of tracks and vocal stacks on each of these songs (i’m a maximalist at heart, i know).

and thank you guys for being so patient with me and being a part of my journey. teenage nightmare is my gift to you. i hope you love it.

- mad

stream "teenage nightmare!" out everywhere now:
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album..../1knrqP9ysgy0Dl1DId0
apple music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/mad-tsai/1535910631&ved=2ahUKEwiqgI-ytoSJAxUJJUQIHYUpFwwQFnoECBcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0_ALT-yf9166FXEPXQBeOx

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director: Ana Peralta Chong
treatment/concept: Mad Tsai
production company: Sworn Friend Studios & Dice TV presents
producer: Giovanna Trujillo and Caro Knapp
creative director: Christopher Aguirre
editor: Justin La Turno
dp: Dylan Budineski
1st ac: Sonali Chugani
steadicam: Krisel Magaña
production design: Caro Knapp
color: Nick Lindell Wright
art assistant: Gabby Alas, Meg Darbourne, Natalie Serratos
gaffer: A.J. Rizer
key grip: Lina Kraftsoff
grip: Arian Romero, Brian Law, Edwin Medina
logo designer: Sofia Chang
hair/makeup: Faye Aguilar
stylist: Isa Spies
stylist assistant: Chancee Phensuk
bts: Emma Valles
production assistant: Austin Cummmings, Lance Redeker, JT Clemente
keyboard: Maggie Pan
guitarist: Rafa Rodriguez
drummer: Josue Arellano

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I thought I’d die at seventeen
So why am I afraid
To accept I’m not perfectly
My dreams from seventh grade

I’m making up some fantasies
To stop the bills I pay
Cause’ once I move on mentally
I’ve slept my youth away

Tell me what’s wrong
With the world
Cause’ I’ve been turned
So cynical

Someone call mom
Life just hurts
And I need
Some medical

Can somebody please hear me when I say the pretty lies
That nothing ever matters and someday we’re gonna die
So I guess I’ll be your teenage nightmare

Your teenage nightmare (oh oh)

Hey little boy you wasted all your life
Trying to be best in class and now you’re out of time
Gonna drink away this feeling that these golden years have been a fucked up lie

Wanna runaway and live the life I missed
I’ve been searching for that feeling of eternal bliss
Look at this high achiever turn into a self-loathing narcissist

It’s the last prom
And I’m queen of
Land of broken dreams

Give me my crown
And I’ll sleep
Till’ the edge of seventeen

Society fucked all my dreams and made me feel so small
Don’t ever think I’ll move on from these broken high school halls
So I guess I’ll be your teenage nightmare

Your teenage nightmare (oh oh)

Hey! I burn everything I that touch
And I still don’t know how to self-love
And I think I’m insane but ain’t that the fucking world

Hey! And by the time I grow old
We’ll be fucked and ready to blow
So might as well go insane and blow our brains while we can

Teenage dreams are make believe when nothings real at all
Virginity and sanity I lost them in the fall
So I guess I’m be your teenage nightmare

Your teenage nightmare (oh oh)