If 2024 was the 12 months that cemented Doechii’s rise, 2025 is proving she’s removed from finished evolving. On Friday, April 18, the GRAMMY Award-winning artist unveiled the music video for her viral observe “Nervousness”—a sleeper hit that’s been quietly constructing momentum and now receives a putting visible therapy that folds time, reminiscence and insanity into one surreal loop.
Directed by James Mackel, the video is a time capsule and an announcement piece. It opens with the digicam zooming by way of a window into Doechii’s bed room—a close to shot-for-shot recreation of her 2020 YouTube freestyle over Gotye’s “Any person That I Used to Know.” That reference, which longtime followers clocked instantly, is greater than a intelligent nod. It’s a dig on the business plant claims and a reminder that her creative imaginative and prescient has at all times been intact—what modified was the visibility, not the expertise.
Choreographed by Robbie Blue, with help from Marie Spieldenner and Lucas Debiasi, “Nervousness” finds Doechii caught in a dreamlike repetition of waking as much as chaos. Her home turns into a manifestation of psychological spirals: the range bursts into flames, a fireman twiddles his thumbs, and strangers roam her area as glass shatters round her. The randomness feels deliberate—visualizing how nervousness distorts the mundane.
However essentially the most layered second comes when two characters seem, styled within the haunting physique paint and hairstyles of Gotye and Kimbra from the unique “Any person That I Used to Know” video. It’s a delicate tip of the hat to the tune that impressed her early freestyle, and for a lot of millennial followers, it conjures a wave of nostalgia. That emotional dissonance—between reminiscence and nervousness, humor and dread—is what provides the video its edge.
By the top, Doechii lastly escapes the home and joins a flash mob on the street, dancing in a burst of early 2010s-inspired choreography that’s as campy as it’s cathartic. As she makes an attempt to flee the group, she stumbles throughout her window and sees herself sitting within the mattress, because the video reveals to be a endless loop. It’s a left-field ending for a deeply private tune, however in typical Doechii style, it’s on her phrases—daring, weird, and unbothered.