Anxiety can often feel paralyzing, and also make you feel rather small. Sometimes, it can even make you feel like a bug that just got pounded into the cement by giants passing by. Or, as Em Beihold would describe it, you could end up feeling like a “Numb Little Bug.”
When Em Beihold was about six years old, she noticed a piano while looking through the window of a store. It was totally love at first sight, and with a pledge to practice day in and day out, Em successfully convinced her parents to buy her the piano! Days turned into years, and various gigs led to the release of her first EP Infrared in 2017.
After graduating college in 2020, Em joined TikTok, and came face to face with viral success. Her songs received millions of streams, and propelled Em into an exciting new chapter of her career. Now signed to Moon Projects in partnership with Republic Records, Em is striving to create a safe space for everyone with her music. Her first order of business? The earworm that is “Numb Little Bug.”
“I was struggling with some heavy anxiety and I was on antidepressants,” Em shared. “With ‘Groundhog Day,’ all of my dreams were coming true. Everything I wanted was happening, but somehow I didn’t feel anything. I felt numb. Songs weren’t really coming to be the way they used to. The antidepressants sucked the soul and energy out of me a little bit. I wrote ‘Numb Little Bug’ about the feeling.”
While there’s days where we indeed might feel like a “Numb Little Bug,” we should also be able to feel as snug as a bug on a rug in the meanwhile. Em Beihold’s music is here to help us do just that!
Check out “Numb Little Bug” below, and say hi to Em Beihold on Instagram and Twitter @embeihold!
