Nessa Barrett’s Dark, Honest World of Songs

Songwriter and performer, Nessa Barrett, is the very young, very popular, and very capable artist you’re about to hear from just about every day. She has earned millions of YouTube streams for her dark, pop- and rock-infused tracks ever since dropping her single, “Pain.”

On Friday, September 10, Barrett released her debut EP, Pretty Poison, which includes hits like her signature track, “i hope ur miserable until ur dead.” The album is a sleek trip through some at times-morbid, snarling thoughts but that’s what makes Barrett stand out: she isn’t afraid to say what’s on her, and your, mind.

We caught up with the 19-year-old New Jersey-born artist to ask her a few questions about her early days in music, how she found her macabre voice, and what Pretty Poison means to her today on its release.