Daezy Find the Light Inside the Chaos on ‘Hot Girl Summer’
Fronted by former AFLW player Daisy Bateman, Daezy have spent the past year building momentum the old fashioned way, emotionally bruised songwriting and the kind of chemistry that can’t be faked. After selling out the launch for their EP 'Take It From Me' at Northcote Social Club and sharing stages with rising acts like The Rions, Playlunch and Sly Withers, the latest release in the form of a single, 'Hot Girl Summer' is finally with us.
The single 'Hot Girl Summer' firstly started as a joke.
Bateman was driving to guitarist Jackson Raeburn’s house while talking to a friend about everything going wrong at once, jobs, lives stalling, the creeping weight of adulthood pressing down harder than expected. Then came the line that broke the spiral
“At least we’re still two hot girls in the summer”
Daezy understands something a lot of indie bands miss, sometimes humour is the only thing standing between you and total collapse. 'Hot Girl Summer' weaponises that contradiction. It’s bright, vulnerable without drowning in self pity. The band lean into messy honesty, lyrics about dying grandparents and losing work arrive unpolished and direct.
Produced by Steven Schram (Teenage Dads, Charlie Collins), the single deliberately avoids sanding down its edges. The band reportedly played the song more than forty times in the studio chasing the feeling of their live set rather than technical perfection, and it pays off.
That instinct for emotional release has become Daezy’s defining trait. Their live reputation has grown quickly across Melbourne’s indie circuit. Whether at Beyond The Valley, Franjafest or packed hometown headline shows, the band play with the loose intensity of musicians who still seem genuinely surprised anyone is listening.
And maybe that’s why 'Hot Girl Summer' hits harder than its title initially suggests. Beneath the tongue in cheek framing is a song about resilience when everything feels unstable and you realise optimism isn’t something you naturally possess anymore.
At a time when so much alternative music feels algorithmically polished into emotional neutrality, 'Hot Girl Summer' arrives gloriously loud, funny, anxious, heartfelt and alive. It captures the exact emotionality of modern adulthood.