Sleeping with Anxiety

Maddy Hicks released “Sleeping with Anxiety” in August of 2022 with Overall Recordings.

At the start of 2022, Maddy decided to do a song challenge on TikTok for the month of January. Every day of the month, she posted part of an original song. Toward the end of the month, she wanted to post a song she had started to write about losing sleep over someone. Since the song had a lyric about sleeping on the floor, she filmed the video while lying on her bedroom floor with her St. Vincent guitar. Within the next few days, the song collected hundreds of thousands of views from people who related to the feeling of sleeping with anxiety.

“This song is about what it feels like to lose sleep over someone who’s not yours. I started writing it last summer when this person was still in my life. It was really painful to care so much about him while he was seeing someone else. Half of me was longing to be there for him as a friend and the other half was pulling myself away to protect my own feelings. This led to a lot of late nights running through scenarios in my head to try to make myself feel better. I was surprised that so many people related to this song online, and I finished writing it after this person was no longer in my life and I had more perspective on the whole situation. I hope anyone going through something similar will hear this song and feel less alone.”

— Maddy