“USE ME” - Bailey Grey
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Bailey Grey is not here to play it safe. She’s not chasing trends or crafting radio-friendly fluff. Instead, with her latest single “USE ME,” Bailey is spinning grief, legacy, and artistic reincarnation into a jazzy, theatrical, morbidly beautiful banger — and it’s mind-blowing.
Imagine if Sara Bareilles, Danny Elfman, and Regina Spektor had a séance and summoned Joni Mitchell’s ghost just to write a song about turning your spine into a guitar after you die. That’s the vibe.
“USE ME” is one of those songs that starts poetic and slightly unsettling — then flips it on its head and becomes something totally catchy and joyfully macabre. The concept is to take your body, post-mortem, and repurpose it. Ashes in an hourglass. Blood in the ocean. Vocal cords gifted to a poet. It’s bizarre and beautiful. It’s a eulogy with jazz hands.
And it’s not just the lyrics that twist your expectations — the production is full-on theatre-kid-goes-pop in the best way possible. The song started with a bouncy, quirky Bareilles-style piano line, and from there, the ideas just exploded—Heartbeat samples under the bridge, tap dancing sounds and real bones (from a pet store) played with drumsticks for percussion.
It’s this kind of “what if we just tried it?” mentality that makes the track feel alive. Every moment feels handmade, instinctual, and just so creative.
Bailey’s got a background in musical theatre, and it shows — not in a cheesy way, but in that she knows how to tell a story, build a moment, and land an emotional gut-punch with perfect phrasing. Her voice is a total shapeshifter: one minute it's floating over piano like early Fiona Apple, the next it's got that Amy Winehouse bite, and somehow it always still sounds completely like Bailey.
Her lyrics in “USE ME” walk the tightrope between poetic and playful, grounded and grandiose. The result? You’ll laugh, cry, and maybe have an existential crisis — but in a good way.
Bailey’s story is as indie as it gets — a former Broadway kid from New Jersey who studied theatre in London, built her fanbase one live show and EP at a time, and now finds herself dropping TikTok-ready anthems that make you think about mortality and dance at the same time.
And “USE ME” is already making waves. With nearly 100,000 streams (as of writing), it’s officially her biggest single to date — and for a song that was 90% done in a few hours—that’s wild. It feels like one of those magical tracks that just fell out of the sky.
“USE ME” is already connecting with people in deeply personal, unexpected ways. One fan even reached out asking to use the song for her son’s end-of-life celebration — a heartbreaking honor that Bailey didn’t take lightly. What started as a quirky, poetic concept became a comfort to someone in the most vulnerable moment of their life.
And that’s the thing about Bailey Grey. She’s not just writing songs — she’s making space for grief, joy, neurodivergence, weirdness, humor, and healing all at once. That’s a rare thing. That’s real artistry.
“USE ME” is catchy, haunting, and oddly comforting. It’s a song about death that makes you feel more alive. It’s experimental pop with a backbone (literally). It’s proof that music can be playful and profound all at once. And Bailey Grey? She’s a star in the making — not in a cookie-cutter way, but in a she-came-here-to-create-magic-and-left-the-door-open-for-everyone way.
“USE ME” is available now on all major streaming platforms
