Ericdoa, the pop innovator, returns fully locked in with his new high-voltage single, "Search & Destroy." Propelled by high-octane production and littered with references to Call of Duty: Black Ops, the song Royale blurs the lines between digital warzones and emotional battlegrounds and reminds us that Ericdoa is in his league.
In a two-week LOCKED IN studio session, search & destroy was the third full song to be written and completed during Mazur's ambitious 24/7 livestream experiment. The jump from "Search & Destroy" is immersed in the thick of the action, opening with the spooling, distorted whir of helicopter blades and cutting straight into Ericdoa's glitchy vocal intro. Lyrically, he's a man on a mission, steely-eyed, locked and loaded, ready to finish the job, even if there is no respawn. "Good to go, I'm locked in Call in control, waiting for extraction," he says, hunting and pecking through the math of love and war with plosive precision.
The high-voltage hook hums with urgency as he confesses, "Hope the suppressor kills the noise. I drown my cup to fill the void." Though "Search & Destroy" crackles with unshakable confidence, it is also shot through with raw vulnerability. Statements like "I gave them my soul, but they still treat me like a boy" hit like an emotional grenade, revealing the burden of sacrifice under the shell.
With search & destroy, ericdoa further cements his status as one of pop's most voluble devotees, transforming every fought battle, onscreen or otherwise, into an auditory spectacle.