diarBlack – Zero After You

Dark synth pop with ice-cold clarity

The track is by no means per­fect, but it doesn't do much wrong either. What imme­di­ately grabs me here is this dark synth pop vibe, which some­how comes across as cool. The beat is pleas­antly crisp and the sound is delight­fully var­ied, which makes the song easy to listen to. Vocally, there is still room for improve­ment, but the cool atmo­sphere actu­ally fits the story behind ‘Zero After You’ quite well.

Thematically, it's about the moment after emo­tion­al manip­u­la­tion, when the cold­ness stands not for aggres­sion, but for regained con­trol. When diarBlack sings that the hatred is ‘cold and clean’, you can feel this pro­cess of self-determ­in­a­tion. I believe there is still a lot of poten­tial behind this pro­ject and diarBlack is def­in­itely one to watch.

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Lyrics of "diarBlack – Zero After You"

You walk in, fake smile, dead eyes
Sweet little lies, well-disguised
Play inno­cent, cut me slow
Every word hits like a blow
You think you’re sharp, think you won
But I see cracks under your skin
I used to care, I used to stay
Now I watch you fade away

Still in my head, like a scar
I don’t want you — but here you are

It’s nice to hate you — feels so right
Found my calm in the after-fight
I don’t need you, I don’t need the pain
It’s nice to hate you — say your name
Nice to hate you — cold and clean
You’re noth­ing now, just noise to me

3x nice to hate you
Cold and Clean

You thought I’d break, lose control
But I rebuilt what you stole
See your games in black and white
You lost me — that’s your fight
Still pre­tend­ing you pull the strings
But I cut you out of everything
No rewind, no second chance
This is where I end the dance

Your name means noth­ing now
Your voice can’t reach me now
All the power that you had
Died with everything we had
I don’t fix what you destroyed
I sur­vived — you lost the void

It’s nice to hate you — feels so clean
Like a wound that finally bleeds
I don’t need you, I don’t need your lies
It’s nice to hate you — dead inside
Nice to hate you — let you go
I’m the fire, you’re the smoke

Keep your smile.
Keep your mask.
I don’t look back.
I don’t collapse.
It’s nice to hate you.
But I chose myself.