AFTER chatting to Mercedes Thorne - best known as Merci, Mercy - for 15 minutes, it's difficult to reconcile that she's the same artist who wrote singles like F--ked Myself Up and her latest track, Angel . Login or signup to continue reading The slick indie-pop Angel is topped off with the hyper-infectious hook of " I'm a sad bad bitch/ Take out the sad take out the bad/ I'm the angel you don't need to fix ." It's the chorus of a confident pop star.
But it's obvious the moniker Merci, Mercy is very much a mask for Thorne to express herself. "I think everyone loves the mentality of being a sad bad bitch, not just a sad bitch, but a bad one as well," Thorne says over Zoom. "I thought I'm not technically a bad bitch because I'm always sad.
I thought it sounded funny, so I put it in there." In person Thorne is sweet and endearingly shy. A quality not usually found in the modern music scene.
"I'm still learning, as I'm a shy person, and I'm finding out who I wanna be onstage and interacting with the audience," Thorne says. "I didn't think music was going to actually work out for me. It was like, 'I really wanna do it, but will it happen?' Then it did happen and it was, 'Oh my god, this is crazy'.
" Thorne's journey into becoming Merci, Mercy began in 2018 when she uploaded her song Be onto triple j Unearthed. At the time Thorne was still at high school in the small town of Jindabyne in the NSW Snowy Mountains. "I was someone who was really passionate about it [music] and my music t.