ÖJA is a Toulouse singer-songwriter working across French-language pop, rock and electronic music. Her artistic identity gives anger a central role, drawing on personal experience and an interest in forceful, physical expression. With “DADISSUES”, she takes on the difficult relationship between asserting power and wanting affection. oja-officialmusique.my.canva.site
The writing opens with a challenge. Her narrator wants access to another person’s thoughts, wants to establish who holds power, then declares herself queen of an empire she has built.
Crowns, poison and venom give the confrontation a theatrical streak. There is pleasure in that swagger: someone who has endured hurt gets to imagine calling the shots.
“DADISSUES” earns its bite through that friction. ÖJA gives her protagonist room to be furious, proud and hungry for love within the same conversation. The admission of wanting an embrace is the detail that stays with me.
