The music video for “Scraps (Cleland)” is a riveting journey through the bends of Los Angeles alongside a giant teddy bear who symbolizes her superficial love interest. After her summer fling leaves a stuffed animal on her doorstep with another girl’s name crossed out on the card, deegie bursts into a fit of rage and rips out the stuffing.
Still searching for validation even after the mishap, deegie tries to share ice cream and kiss the giant bear who seems to be the only shred of romance she has left. Finally reaching her boiling point, deegie kicks her counterpart to the curb and destroys the shell of the stuffed animal on the side of a sunset canyon.
“Scraps (Cleland)” is the first single from deegie’s highly anticipated debut EP entitled EXES.
deegie’s emotional directness and empowering energy have inspired questions like, “What makes you so angry?” There’s something about a woman being raw, bold, and fierce that makes people uncomfortable, and deegie’s mission is to shine a klieg light on that truth.
With the sound of Olivia Rodrigo’s older sister (or Avril Lavigne’s younger one), deegie is a pop-punk princess who loves an anthemic melody and a gut-punching lyric.
“Scraps (Cleland)” is the first song from an EP about her ex-boyfriends titled EXES. The idea for the EP was sparked when she stumbled upon her online journals spanning nearly a decade, which included details about casual and serious relationships that were too good not to indulge in.
It’s an exploration of memory, accountability, and the perspective bestowed by time and, in a particularly bold move, each song on the EP will include the name of the boyfriend it’s about in the song’s title.
“Scraps (Cleland)” revisits a situationship that found deegie longing for more devotion and commitment than she was actually willing to ask Cleland for at the time. The song is what she wishes she would have said when she found out she wasn’t his only summer fling and they finally stopped hooking up.
