Nate Vickers – “Feels So Wrong”
Out today via Oxide Records, “Feels So Wrong” flips the victory-lap narrative, tracing the isolation that can trail a rising profile—and the fake friends who suddenly reappear when the numbers climb.
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Houston-born alt rocker Nate Vickers returns with “Feels So Wrong,” a new single out today on Oxide Records, pairing a hard-edged pulse with painfully direct self-inventory. The video walks Vickers through a balloon-strewn, post-party scene—celebratory on the surface, conflicted underneath—echoing the song’s theme of success that doesn’t feel like it should.
The Music Coast angle
Plenty of rock songs measure the climb; fewer linger on the chill at the summit. “Feels So Wrong” lives in that gap. Vickers leans into the contradiction—career momentum vs. real connection—delivering lines that sting without melodrama.
It’s also a savvy follow-up to “Deja Vu” (Oct. 3), which mined the dizzy aftermath of heartbreak; this one asks what you owe yourself after moving on. Together with “Falling Away From Heaven,” the arc feels less like singles in isolation and more like chapters in a recalibration.
Key details
- Track
- “Feels So Wrong”
- Artist
- Nate Vickers
- Label
- Oxide Records
- Release date
- Video
- Empty-room, post-party vignette underscoring isolation (balloons, décor, quiet ache).
Quote
“It feels so cool to be successful, but it feels so wrong at the same time… How fake friends will hit you up after you’re doing well, but weren’t there when you needed help.”
What it sounds like (our ears)
Call it Linkin Park’s candor meets Bad Omens’ modern bite, with a Three Days Grace-style chorus engineered to stick. The lift into the hook lands like a realization you can’t unhear; the guitars crunch, but the space around them lets the lyric sting. If you like moody, melodic alt-metal that still swings for big choruses, this will hit. (Influence points Vickers has cited align here.)
Broader context
Vickers’ breakout EP A Little Too Late (2024) established his lane and has been covered across rock press. Subsequent singles “Parasite,” “Falling Away From Heaven,” and “Deja Vu” pushed darker textures and landed spins on SiriusXM Octane—most notably “Falling Away From Heaven.” He’s also been featured in Octane’s “Test Drive.”
On the socials front, Vickers crossed 1M+ on TikTok last year and continues to snowball across platforms—context that makes a song about uneasy success ring truer.
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