# Matthew Dear – “Dizzy”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/matthew-dear-dizzy/
- Published: 2026-11-11T15:05:13+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T15:23:28+00:00
- Original publisher: Stereogum
- Original article: https://stereogum.com/2517571/matthew-dear-dizzy-song/music/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- Matthew Dear’s “Dizzy” is a late-night love song.
- It follows a cycle of leaving and returning to a loved one.
- Dear says its dreamlike mood came from writing after midnight.

## Summary

Matthew Dear has released “Dizzy”, a love song shaped by the solitude and dreamlike atmosphere of writing in the hours between midnight and dawn. He describes using that quiet time to let a different, subconscious side of himself guide his songwriting.

The song follows someone repeatedly leaving and returning to the person they love, with its scene set on a dark, empty two-lane highway. Dear evokes the smell of cooling asphalt beneath moonlight and a mood suspended between opposing states: hot and cold, living and dead, departure and return.

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