With “Open Poison,” Carlos Ucedda creates a beguilingly dark soundscape that is sonically located between dark wave, art pop, and dark pop. The composition acts like a black mirror of emotional dependencies and focuses on toxic friendships—relationships in which empathy becomes a currency that the other greedily devours. The song tells of so-called “sensitive people” who suck up feelings like emotional vampires and rob the other person of their personality.
Musically, Carlos Ucedda interweaves a sacred atmosphere with hypnotic sound design. The voice fluctuates between invocation and inner outcry—as if the singer is undergoing a ritual purification process. The piece is deliberately ambivalent in nature, serving as a catalyst for both realization and destruction. The repetitions create a trance-like effect, as if one were getting lost in a mental labyrinth—seduced and warned at the same time.
Lyrically, the song can be interpreted as a poetic catharsis, a silent escalation against emotional manipulation. Accusation gives way to reflection, and anger changes to insight. “Open Poison” is not a cry for liberation but rather a musical fog that slowly rises and reveals what was in the shadows. Aesthetically multi-layered and emotionally deep, Carlos Ucedda hits a nerve with this composition. And he deliberately makes it vibrate.

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