Songfacts®:

• "Spiders" is a vulnerable track about that fragile, slightly unhealthy interdependence that love can sometimes slide into.
  
  Lola Young said of the song: "It encompasses all the pain and fear I have ever felt towards myself, and it's about wanting someone to love me beyond all of that. Sometimes you want to kill what you're most scared of in life, but when you actually face up to it, it's really not as scary as you thought it would be."
• And then, of course, there are the spiders.
  
  Please, kill, kill all the spiders
  'Cause they're in our room and with them I can't sleep beside you
  
  Here, the spiders become stand-ins for Young's intrusive fears, creeping, scuttling little anxieties that keep her from resting easy. It's not hard to hear echoes of her earlier track "Messy," which is a self-aware celebration of imperfection and chaos in relationships.
• Lola Young co-wrote "Spiders" with her regular production allies Solomonophonic and William Brown (Manuka). The pair have been something like her musical spider-catchers for years now, always there to trap the messiest corners of her emotions in a jar and hand them back as fully formed songs.
• The video, directed by Conor Cunningham, leans into the metaphor with a certain gleeful literalism. It opens with Young calmly holding an enormous spider and proceeds to show her confronting it head-on. The message is simple: stare down what terrifies you, and it stops being quite so monstrous.
• Young debuted the song live at Coachella in April 2025. It was released on September 5, 2025, as a single from her third album, I'm Only.
• "Spiders" began as a metaphor for Young's relationship with her manager, Nick Shymansky, but it became a lifeline during a time when she didn't want to be here and had stopped caring about herself. Writing it helped her claw her way out of that darkness.