Doechii Contends With SWAT Teams, Fires, and Elephants in ‘Anxiety’ Video

Summary

The video for "Anxiety" by Doechi starts with a grand home but escalates into chaotic scenes featuring mundane and outrageous anxieties. The video is inspired by the SWAT team theme, blending humor with life-threatening situations like a stove fire, guests, a dog, an elephant, falling objects, and dancers. It also features lookalikes of Gotye and Kimbra. The song, released in 2019 but initially not properly distributed due to copyright issues, has become a hit, peaking on the Billboard Hot 100. Doechi's album received a Grammy nod for Best Rap Album.

Additional Summaries

Then all those pesky, well, anxieties come crashing in — just like the SWAT team that repeatedly breaks through the living room windows. It was originally self-released on YouTube in 2019, but at the time, she wasn’t able to properly release and monetize the song because she wasn’t able to properly clear the “Somebody That I Used to Know” sample. Still, the song remained a deep cut hit: The rapper Sleepy Hallow sampled it on a 2023 song, and more recently, it started gaining traction on TikTok. Since its official release, “Anxiety” has become Doechii’s biggest single to date, recently peaking at Number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song arrives on the heels of Doechii’s breakthrough 2024 album, Alligator Bites Never Heal, which recently won the Grammy for Best Rap Album.