Introducing: Boh Doran – The Drugs Don’t Work (The Verve Cover)

Speaking about the track, Doran says: ”I first heard “the drugs don’t work” in high school at a party. People there were ironically doing drugs. I wasn’t, but I felt an emptiness in what was happening around me. I think the song comforted that feeling.

I heard it again when I was going through a heavy time – there was a break-up, I was living alone and having some depression. I was considering leaving LA, feeling like a pathetic artist, like an imposter and a failure. I was trying to self-medicate in various ways to fill the black hole I felt inside, but we all know, that only works for so long. I started a version of “the drugs don’t work” at that time because I wanted to heal myself through the song but fell off of working on it because things were too stressful in my life to actually be focusing on music.

I gathered myself slowly but surely and then I met my partner and got surprise pregnant. It was deciding to be brave enough to have an unplanned child in a city where people really don’t do that, that truly made me feel confident and stable enough as a person to believe in myself and finish my own music. After my son was born, I opened the session back up and saw the song through, beginning to end. I produced it, played the instruments, edited, and arranged everything. It takes a level of stability and clarity that isn’t accessible when your life is in chaos. I had to believe in myself enough to finish something that wasn’t for a job, or that my manager or label didn’t put a deadline on.”

Doran has so much talent. She makes really good music. The Drugs Don’t Work deserves to be heard.

Check it out below!