Exploding last year with her debut single “LOVESICK,” Las Vegas based alternative artist Kami Kehoe returns with an anthem that will tug on every heartstring. “Test Dummy” narrates the feeling of being used by people and constantly getting tossed aside after giving so much time and energy being their emotional support system. We’ve all been there—spending hours, days and weeks trying to champion our friends or loved ones when they’re going through a tough time. But sometimes we can be left feeling used and that all our energy was siphoned by others instead of focusing on ourselves. 

For Kehoe, this has happened multiple times and she’s finally realized that she can no longer give her time to others, only to end up getting hurt. She explains, “Someone who is broken or who has unhealed trauma will come in my life, I will unintentionally help them understand and deal with their pain and once you open an untreated wound that has been under a bandage for years it hurts. It's like putting alcohol on a cut to heal. But it ends up healing. And I feel like I was that alcohol for a lot of people in my life, But In the process of helping them become better I would get hurt. I would get hurt because they're hurting, and unfortunately I don't think any of them meant to do that, I just think hurt people hurt people. The concept of the song really means I was just there for them to use. Like a test dummy.”

The powerful, emotionally-charged song shines with Kehoe’s deep, soulful and melancholy vocals, so raw that you can almost hear the pain in her tone. Simple guitar strums and haunting harmonies build throughout, as the artist lays her message out loud and clear, singing “If I let you love again, Will I survive?”