aleksiah Goes 3 For 3 With “Punk Drunk Love”
Following smash-hits Clothes Off and The Hit, Adelaide singer songwriter aleksiah has unveiled her latest anthem Punch Drunk Love. Combining her trademark honest pop with 80’s synths, aleksiah wants you to get your leg warmers on and dance through the tears.
Punch Drunk Love takes place on a night out where the club is the last place you want to be. With feel-good 80’s production and an irresistible beat, aleksiah finds the strength to keep on dancing while the world falls apart around her. Touching on the importance of mental health and queer spaces, Punch Drunk Love is comforting yet invigorating, with a healthy dose of self-deprecation.
“Punch Drunk Love came out of an interaction I had with a friend, it was their birthday and they wanted to go dancing to celebrate at a really popular queer club in my hometown. A week earlier I had just gotten diagnosed with depression, so a lot was happening and as much as I loved my friend, I didn’t really feel like dancing.
The song is about trying to be happy and perhaps even find love when you just feel like the world is crumbling under your feet. When my producer Chris and I came to recording it, we wanted to make it really lighthearted and silly, and the 80s aerobics movement immediately came to mind, because you see one of those Jane Fonda workout tapes and it just makes you want to move. It might be a pretty niche experience, but I know everyone’s felt uncomfortable in the club before, so I want people to listen to this song and find comfort in this shared feeling we all have.”
After wrapping up her sold out Australian headline run in August, aleksiah is bringing the ‘cry about it’ tour to the UK and Europe this November and December. Hitting stops in England, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Belgium, aleksiah is bringing her latest EP to the far corners of the globe.
Continuing to gain global recognition, aleksiah was recently announced as the opening act for US singer Kelsea Ballerini’s Australian tour as well as Brighton band Fickle Friend’s UK tour, later this year.
