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"OctaHate" is a song recorded by American singer Ryn Weaver from her debut EP Promises. It was released on June 24, 2014 by Weaver via SoundCloud and became available for digital download as the first single from her EP Promises and her debut album The Fool. The song was produced by Michael Angelakos, Cashmere Cat, and Benny Blanco and co-written by Charli XCX

An accompanying video for the song was directed by Goodwin and released October 9, 2014.

=Background and release= In 2013 recording for "OctaHate" began after being signed to Benny Blanco's label Friends With Secrets.

=Composition and lyrics=

OctaHate is a synthpop track with a length of three minutes and twenty-six seconds. Weaver stated in an interview that the song was produced with an octatrack and that's where the song's title recieved the "Octa" prefix. According to Robby Daw of Idolator the song is OctaHate is "totally dreamy finger-snap-and-synth filled."

The song was originally titled OctaLoser, which was inspired by the octatrack used to produce the song. Weaver said that the "octa" prefix also has other meanings, including "hate times eight" and her love for octopi.

Weaver has stated numerous times that the song is based on a bad breakup with an ex-lover. She told Fuse the verses are this coping mechanism of kind of how you put on a face and the chorus is just a tantrum.

“The song is about me coming into my own,” the singer, whose real name is, Erin Michelle Wüthrich tells Radio.com over the phone. “I was living in New York City at the time and was dating someone that wasn’t very good to me. I gave up my dreams a bit to help him follow his.”

“The feelings of mourning and loss in one’s self, coupled with the joy that it’s over and the anger that I knew it all along,” she says, “the rainbow tears just represent all of that.”

Actually, we were all working on a track and the guys titled it “OctaLoser” originally. That was the track I took home and wrote some stuff on and played with, and by the end of it I re-titled it “OctaHate.” At first that was actually more because it was the first song that I had finished with them, and I was pretty insecure about it, I was like “I hate it!” I was almost apologising for myself before I even gave it to them. But then as time went on it was like, we need to think of a new name, and I was like actually, that kind of makes the most sense as a name, because it’s about a certain ex-boyfriend. I liked the idea of “hate times eight.” The song itself is a tantrum, it’s like this “fuck you,” you know what I mean? It just made sense to me. And also playing off the word octa, I liked the idea of an octopus: something that just won’t let go.

=Critical reception= The song has been met with generally positive reviews. Shortly after being released on Weaver's SoundCloud the track garnered over 30,000 plays in 24 hours, then two weeks later the song had recieved one million plays. Mususicians such as Hayley Williams and Jessie Ware reached out to Ryn praising the song and showing support. Michael Gragg from The Guardian an "instantly bewitching, emotionally erratic pop symphony." Chris Deville of Stereogum called it a "gleaming-state-of-the-art-pop-track".

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