Ben Schuller Copes With Unrequited Love And Music Industry Toxicity On “Spit Me Out”

Watch the cinematic music video, here: youtu.be/InLD_1DbgaE

Nashville-based singer-songwriter and producer Ben Schuller shares “Spit Me Out,” a song that grapples with the highs and lows of a life in the entertainment industry. Listen HERE.

Penned by Schuller and co-produced by Schuller and Matt Geroux, the song has jarring lyrics that draw a parallel between toxic relationships and the music industry. Filmed in Tennessee’s Palace Theater, the “Spit Me Out” video was directed by Schuller and filmed by Adam Ewbank. It illustrates the ways humans try to change themselves to fit societal expectations, showing different versions of the same person seeking validation from a crowd. Watch the video, here: youtu.be/InLD_1DbgaE

"Going after a career as an artist, or any dream really, can bring the highest highs and the lowest lows,” Says Schuller. "I wrote these lyrics from one of those lows. The feeling of loving something that could never really love you back. 'Spit Me Out’ is about giving everything you have for a dream, pouring blood sweat and tears into something that has no problem throwing you away once it has decided it doesn't need you anymore or once something better has come along.”

The song is the ninth chapter and the emotional climax of a ten-part album called ’New Roaring 20s’ due later this year. The music focuses on the unique and sometimes tragic social identity that the Millennials and Gen-Zers have been raised on — an obsession with likes, follows and blue check marks. 

Schuller has “an ear for pop’s current sound” (UPROXX) and his song “Blueberry Diamonds” is “[an] introspective [look] at what it’s like to be raised by the internet” (Hollywood Life) and his latest single “Full Throttle” finds Schuller coming to terms with self-destructive choices. ’New Roaring 20s,’ due later this year, a conceptual album that investigates “the unique and often tragic social identity of our generation, while at the same time giving a deeply personal account of my own mental health struggles as an artist in the age of the Internet.”