Nessa Barrett sums up the mood of her Jesus loves a primadonna EP in one lyric: “A man is a woman’s worst drug/Fuck it, I’m in love.” After ending her last project, 2024’s AFTERCARE, on a defiantly hopeful note, she finds herself barreling toward a toxic relationship relapse. Building upon AFTERCARE’s gritty textures and a push into more provocative songwriting, she fully commits to the cinematic drama that her songs create, rendering a gothic world filled with dusty guitar riffs, soaring strings, and ominous trip-hop beats—think Lana Del Rey meets Massive Attack and Portishead in a black-and-white vampire romance (or is it a tragedy?). She sets a rugged desert scene with “West Coast Prayer,” where she declares her love for a man she knows can’t be tamed—“I always had a thing for cowboys, baby,” she shrugs. But once the high of “Moulin Rouge” and “Black Haired Madonna” wears off, she spirals into obsession, comparing love to Stockholm syndrome on “Buffalo 66” (named after the 1998 film) and being strung out on “High on Heaven.” Left to pick up the emotional wreckage, she ends the EP by reflecting on the trauma she feels has made her unlovable, asking a new flame the same question she posed at the start: “Will you be like everyone else, or will you stay with me?”