The relationship revenge fantasy is big business in pop this year. Miley Cyrus’s Flowers, a better-off-alone shrug at her ex-husband, is a global No 1; Shakira went viral annihilating her allegedly cheating ex; Lana Del Rey posted the sole billboard for her new album in her former boyfriend’s home town; SZA’s Kill Bill murdered her ex and his new girlfriend. Salad, from Sabrina Teitelbaum’s debut album as Blondshell, is hellbent on a different kind of vengeance. Set to wig-blowing goth-rock somewhere between the Cranberries’ angst and Depeche Mode’s shiny edges, it finds the 25-year-old songwriter imagining dispatching a man who transgressed against her friend. “God tell me why did he hurt my girl?” she sings as guitars thunder.
