Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and producer Natalie Claro returns with her most incisive single yet, “Spiders” – a gothic pop-rock manifesto that confronts cruelty, vulnerability, and the courage of softness in an increasingly callous world. Written, produced, and performed entirely by Claro, the track marries Paramore’s fiery intensity with Billie Eilish’s shadowy intimacy, cementing her status as one of alternative music’s most vital truth-tellers.
Inspired by a seemingly small act of cruelty—“someone who walked up to a beetle just to step on it”—”Spiders” spins this moment of casual malice into a metaphor for systemic indifference. Claro’s razor-edged lyrics (“step on a beetle outside, watch something helpless die”) unfold over cinematic guitars and brooding percussion, her theatrical vocals layering into a choir of defiance. The result is neither a lament nor a surrender, but a mobilizing cry—urging listeners to guard their empathy like a weapon.
Following 2023’s politically charged Nightmare (which donated royalties to humanitarian causes) and the raw breakup anthem Dizzy, “Spiders” proves Claro’s range is limitless. Here, she bridges the personal and political, crafting a darkly danceable ode to resisting emotional calcification—one that echoes Evanescence’s drama while defying all genre boxes.
With ‘Spiders’, Natalie Claro spins gothic pop into protest—an electrifying, razor-sharp anthem that turns empathy into resistance.
