To talk with GG Magree is to be reminded that desire is a language, not a problem to solve. Her work lives in the place where romance gets feral: where you want to kiss someone and also eat them alive in the same breath. The world of her album and short film, Spit Love, is sticky, neon-lit, and deeply sincere, a world shaped by kink clubs in Berlin, queer family in Sydney, and the kind of heartbreak that teaches you not just how to leave, but how to return to yourself louder. This is art as appetite, as survival, as joy, and she’s not asking for permission.
On the feeling of Spit Love, GG states, “it's just about getting smacked in the ass and spat in the mouth at the same time”. Read the exclusively moody interview below.
JB: So is that why it's called Spit Love? Like spit in the mouth?
GG: I have some crazy fascination with mucus and spit. You know when you kiss someone, and their spit just tastes so good and you're like, ‘oh fuck like I can see myself falling in love with you.’
For me… when that happens…and it's only ever happened to me a handful of times, that's how I can tell that I'm in love with someone.
I just had this visual, and I've done it multiple times, where you're on top of someone and you're spitting on someone's heart, drawing a love heart, that is just so intimate to me. I don't know. I'm a sweetie pie.
It's kinky but it's romantic.
JB: Would you say that most of the songs come from personal experience, or narrative storytelling?
GG: Technically, the album is about a cannibal stripper. I don't eat people. No way. Every one of my exes is still alive.
But I have a fascination with the metaphor of cannibalism and love and cute aggression. I'm a very intense lover, as you can probably tell, and when I do really love someone, I feel like it's more of an external thing, but it's so internal to me. I will literally do anything for that person.
I grew up in an amazing family, but I had a lot of tragedy. I've been in abusive relationships, and romantic love can be so fucked up… like, why is my ex-boyfriend punching me in the face?
JB: If you could give your younger self some dating advice - what would it be?
GG: No one should ever lay a hand on you. No one should ever be mentally abusive. It's okay to walk away.
I feel like I'm a very bubbly person and that often attracts dark people and dark energy. They like the idea of me, and then they try to control it. They try to smother me and shrink me and hurt me.
As I've gotten older, I won't accept shitty behavior anymore. The dating pool is so fucking bad. Maybe it's because my expectations are high because I know what I'm capable of giving, and it's a lot, and if I'm not going to get that every time, you can literally go and fuck yourself. My fuse is way shorter now.
JB: Your Wet Dreams video shows kink in a way most artists don’t, real kink, not “fuzzy cuffs.” How did that come into play?
GG: When I was writing Wet Dreams, I had just come back from Berlin. Going to the sex clubs over there, there's no phones, everyone’s naked, and it's not about shock. It's about freedom. I remember thinking, I wish I could give this experience to people.
I wanted to make a song you play right before you go out. Or when you're driving someone home to fuck them. I wanted it to feel exotic and erotic.
JB: Let’s talk about the short film for Spit Love and the character you created for it.
GG: The short film shows that if you don't eat love, love will eat you.
I’m obsessed with pole dancing. Strippers are so iconic. I just want to flip the script on what society thinks is “normal.” If someone thinks I'm too sexual, too loud, then cool. Then you're not for me.
JB: How did you overcome the concept of being “too much”?
GG: When I moved to America and joined big agencies, I was told to be a version of myself that was acceptable for everyone. And I got so depressed. Then COVID happened. I fired everyone who was trying to change me and found myself again.
This version of me…she’s the one.
JB: On that note, what message would you leave with our Moody readers?
GG: Be fucking loud. The world doesn't need smaller people. If you don't stand for anything, you don't deserve to have a platform.
JB: What’s next for you?
GG: I'm currently on tour, and this is the first step into this version of me. I can’t stop writing. I'm already nine songs into the next album. I'm a psycho.
JB: What gets you in the mood?
GG: Spit. I don't know what it is. I'm such a sucker for spit. It’s just my favorite thing.