Bailey Spinn Taps Into Her Dark Side On Her New Single Voodoo

Rising rock artist Bailey Spinn talks about writing about heartbreak, embracing difficult emotions, and what’s next for her.

On a Friday afternoon, rising rock powerhouse Bailey Spinn is eager to chat about her new music and tapping into feelings that are universal yet not discussed often on the phone.. Upon bringing up her hit song “Homicide”, an anti-Valentine’s Day track being something that so many people who are over the lovestruck holiday have been looking for, the singer laughs into the speaker. “Same” the singer quips. “Homicide came to be because I had a lot of tumultuous relationships and situationships, as I would say. I had life ending crushes where I thought we would be together and situationships that don’t end well and just a bunch of things that wreck your heart when you do them for so long. I always loved writing from a dark, metaphorical perspective. Obviously, I would never do any of this kind of stuff. But I love coming up with an idea and running with it and taking my feelings and putting them into a story. Instead of directly saying ‘I’m sad and this person hurt me’ , I really wanted to transform it into feeling more like a scary movie.“ Having the single come out on the day before the holiday was the icing on the cake. Spinn has spent her career tapping into her dark side, leaning into her ability to take a song and elevate it into a story that everyone can see themselves in.

Hailing from Fairfax, Virginia, Spinn is best known for her edgy lyrics and captivating vocals that blend early 2000s rock music nostalgia with modern elements. Through self-reflection, Spinn invites fans to reflect on their own experiences and become comfortable facing their own insecurities and anxieties. Influenced by early aughts emo queens such as Hayley Williams of Paramore and Avril Lavigne, Spinn’s Youtube covers gained widespread acclaim, leading her to sign with Sound Talent Group and record label AWAL and craft debut EP My Worst Enemy along with her March 2025 debut LP loser. On both records, she taps into the heavy drums, energetic electric guitars, and raw lyricism that made the former artists a mainstay in the genre. Now, Spinn is making her own mark with anti-Valentine’s Day song “Homicide” and the dark, addictive “voodoo.” “ I love to have another writer with me to balance ideas because I tend to get a little jumbled and John [of Point North] is such a talented songwriter and producer. He really can craft such an addictive chorus and that’s definitely a lot of what he added to it. We wrote it based on a feeling that a lot of girls have had of ‘ This ex-friend or somebody close to me is stealing my swag’ or taking little bits and pieces of your personality, your wardrobe, or anything they can and making it their own. You see it and you don’t want to sound crazy but there’s so many coincidences that you can see it. I wanted to get that feeling off my chest. We came up with ‘Voodoo’ because it felt like something a little sinister and a little scary watching over you and taking little bits and pieces of you. So we wrote it all down and John really challenged me to change the vocals on this song and use more diction in my vocal. It’s so locked in and so different from a lot of my other songs because he had that specific vision and it was amazing.” Being inspired to make moody, dark tracks is nothing new for Spinn as it can be seen in her recent singles. “Evanescence and Flyleaf were huge inspirations for me when making the new music.”, Spinn says.

For Spinn, being honest and unapologetic in her songwriting is important to her. “I think nowadays people really connect with honesty and I find that I always appreciate that in artists. Some of my favorite artists are so authentically themselves. They’re not trying to make a hit when they’re going into the studio or a session. It really helps me to get it all on paper and really narrow down exactly what it is that I need to put into a song. It becomes really easy to share because so many people relate to my stories and my music has made an impact in their life. I think that’s so awesome.”

Her hit single “Fear Of Going Out” is an example of taking snippets of her life and connecting it to universal experiences, stemming from a time in her life where she was going out to parties and “ not knowing how to fit in or where I fit in or why I was there.” “ I just didn’t think I belonged there and I was in this session where I basically came in with nothing, no title, I was just explaining exactly how I felt. I just wanted to sit in my room on my laptop and never talk to anyone again in my life. We were talking about it and I think we came up with the topic of FOMO. I don’t have that. I just want to sit inside my house alone for the rest of eternity.”

Earlier this year, Spinn joined fellow alternative rock outfits Not Enough Space and Dark Divine on tour for a short run, an experience that she is thankful for. “ It was a really fun experience. When I went on tour with my own headliner a year ago, I had an audience that was quite young, a lot of teenage girls, a little bit younger, and young adults. This new audience for Dark Divine was so hyped and so intense. It was actually so exciting. For my first night, there were crowdsurfer and mosh pits. I had never seen that at my own shows. I’ve seen them at rock festivals and stuff for bigger bands, but at the time I didn’t even have much heavy music out, so they were crowdsurfing to my ballad and it was so amazing to see. I was like ‘I don’t know what to do but I like it.’ Their energy really feeds your performance too. I wish I could go out for longer with them.”

If she had her way, the singer is hoping to tour with Evanescence someday. “I’d put Evanescence as my number one [choice]. I’m also a huge fan of Poppy and I think I’m not insanely far off from Poppy’s sound now that I’m releasing more heavy stuff. I would love to open for any woman in rock. I love Flyleaf and Bring Me The Horizon. Any woman, Paramore, let me in.”