Doechii Is Feeling the Stress in ‘Anxiety’ Music Video – ryan

Doechii is feeling the pressure in her latest music video.

On Friday, April 18, the Grammy winner released the music video for her song “Anxiety” which pays homage to Gotye and Kimbra’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” the 2011 song she sampled.

In the music video that finds Doechii, 26, stuck in her own head and battling with forces beyond her control. She is carried between rooms in her house where things catch on fire, people break in through her windows and furniture is being moved.

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People run through her house, a chandelier breaks and she dances outside in her underwear — not an uncommon stress dream to have. The visuals demonstrate worst-case scenarios and feeling trapped.

“Anxiety, keep on trying me/I feel it quietly, tryna silence me, yeah,” she sings in the refrain. “My anxiety, can’t shake it off of me/Somebody’s watchin’ me and my anxiety, yeah.”

Her real-life younger twin sisters even make a cameo à la The Shining twins, per Cosmopolitan.

At one point, the camera pans over to a wall painted with two people standing with kaleidoscopic makeup to match the wall. Fans of “Somebody That I Used to Know” will immediately recognize this visual from the original music video.

The music video also includes a reference to the origin of “Anxiety,” which Doechii recorded in her bedroom in 2019. The “DENIAL IS A RIVER” singer recreated her bedroom, including the tapestry and and hot pink storage bins.

She detailed the lore behind the song in March, which was originally part of her self-released mixtape Coven Music Sessions Vol. 1. She had uploaded the song on YouTube at the time but never brought it to streaming platforms.

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Musician Sleepy Hallow then sampled Doechii’s song in his own song, also titled “Anxiety,” and it “blew up.” “People are finding the original version that I did on YouTube, and that’s blowing up on TikTok. And now people want me to release the full version and we’re here.”

The music video cleverly ends in a giant loop with Doechii watching herself the whole time, nailing the idea that oftentimes, anxiety can be in your head.

Doechii spoke to PEOPLE in March, using the word “transformative” to describe her 2025 so far, which included performing at the Grammys and winning the award for Best Rap Album in February.

“It’s been transformative for me. Truly. All of my dreams have become a reality, and I feel like I am literally walking in a dream,” she said at the time.