Hate Is As Harmful To Yourself As Others In Elio's New Single & Video

[Cover photo credit to Becca Hamel]

Toronto-based artist Elio, aka Charlotte Grace Victoria, has released a timely new single video, “hurts 2 hate somebody,” the latest from her upcoming EP Can You Hear Me Now due out in January 2021. The new track follows the release of single “Jackie Onassis”.

“hurts 2 hate somebody” confronts problems of "resentment and sorrow, unable to forgive and therefore unable to let go". An ensemble joins her in the chorus, giving the song a communal feeling.

Elio reflects on these ideas:

“It gets to a point where you get so tired of being miserable that it’s more harmful to yourself than to the person you hate. I feel like it’s so trendy to have a bad attitude, or to be too cool to care for people but hate is so toxic for yourself and everyone around you, go be happy, put the good energy out and it’ll come back.”

The new video takes on a high school environment, appropriate to grudges, and she directed the video along with SunsetSahil and Oliver Whitfield-Smith.

Elio comments:

“Our world is filled with resentful and hateful adults, just as immature as a high school student. People think we grow out of spitefulness, we become wiser as we get older but it’s simply not true. I look back on my time in high school, all the fights and drama, the bullies, the gossiping. I can’t imagine how much more I could’ve done with that time if I just let people be, what goes around comes around.”