Gary Numan’s daughter Raven Numan has shared her brooding new single, ‘In Your Head’.
The ‘Cars’ hitmakers’ 20-year-old daughter has dropped the pulsating industrial-laced goth rock tune – just in time for Halloween.
Raven’s brooding new song – which has arrived alongside a dark and twisted music video – is about being obsessed with someone she “can’t have”.
She said in a statement: “I wrote ‘In Your Head’ about three years ago, it’s somewhat directed towards someone I’ve known for quite a few years but have only met a few times. It’s about intense feelings of obsession for someone who’s out of reach. I found myself replaying every moment, feeling an overwhelming desire to know them more deeply. My thoughts were consumed by fantasies of what could be, creating a tension between my longing and the reality of our brief interactions. This song reflects my struggle with the powerful emotions that come from wanting someone I can’t have. Psychotic, I know, but we all are at times, especially when we want something bad enough.”
Raven – who is the eldest of Gary’s three girls with his wife Gemma, with whom he also has Persia, 19, and Echo, 17 – released her debut single ‘My Reflection’ earlier this year and has released a slew of singles since.
Previous track ‘Overwhelming’ explored her experience of “growing up with a famous parent”.
She explained: “‘Overwhelming’ is somewhat self-explanatory. It’s about being overwhelmed with everyone and everything, it’s also about growing up with a famous parent and how it’s affected me personally.
“My parents are incredible; they’ve done absolutely everything and more for me and I love them endlessly – but a big part of their job is going on tour for long periods of time and that has quite obviously affected me negatively.”
Raven believes that her dad’s fame and success led her to “develop borderline personality disorder”.
She added: “The song is partially about that; how my parents going on tour as a child caused me to develop quite a lot of issues.
“It caused me to develop borderline personality disorder, which involves the constant fear of being abandoned, severe mood swings, anxiety and it has also caused extreme social anxiety.”
Raven admitted that she struggled to cope with the situation during her younger years.
She explained: “The loudness of this lifestyle, the shows, my dad’s fame, the unpredictability, the fans, the unnecessary hate all because I was born caused so much stress and it was a lot for me to handle.
“It’s about totally shutting down and disassociating because everything was very overwhelming.”