WHO SHOT SCOTT has released ‘BAD GIRLS’, the latest single from his forthcoming debut album HAIRY, arriving June 5. It is a track that leans into contrast, pairing lush synth textures with a narrative rooted in dislocation and adolescence.
Born in Iraq, Zaidoon Nasir fled the country with his mother as a toddler, eventually settling in Auckland after a period in Moscow. Growing up between cultures, he navigated the tensions of belonging and difference early, experiences that would later shape the emotional centre of his music. That perspective remains embedded in WHO SHOT SCOTT, the project through which he has explored identity, alienation and self-definition.
‘BAD GIRLS’ continues that trajectory. Neo-soul basslines and steady grooves carry the track forward, while Nasir reconstructs a formative teenage experience, revisiting a friendship altered by the quiet hierarchies of school life.
“This song is a window back into my 15 year old self,” he explains. The hook reframes that moment through the imagined voice of someone drifting toward acceptance elsewhere, leaving behind a version of themselves he thought he understood. It is less confrontation than observation, shaped by the emotional logic of adolescence.
The accompanying video, directed by Connor Pritchard, mirrors that distance. Nasir attempts to reconnect, only to find himself shut out, watching from the margins as the past becomes inaccessible. It reinforces a recurring theme across his work, the tension between belonging and separation.
HAIRY, his first full-length album, builds on this foundation. Previous singles including ‘PROBLEMS IN MY HEAD’, ‘LFTBU’ and ‘FRENCH FEVER’ suggest a record concerned with reconstruction, turning early experiences of alienation into something outward-facing. Musically, Nasir continues to resist fixed categorisation, drawing from alternative hip hop, electronic experimentation and punk’s emotional directness.
With ‘BAD GIRLS’, he returns to an earlier emotional terrain, tracing the moment where difference first became visible, and where the impulse to create began to take shape.
Stream ‘BAD GIRLS’ HERE.
