Jessie Murph Gets Roasted Once Again For Controversial New Song, ‘1965,’ Following Performance On Late Night TV

If you didn’t like the music video, chances are this live performance isn’t gonna do it for you either.

Jessie Murph just released her sophomore album Sex Hysteria, which, as the title suggests, has some pretty explicit themes in some of the songs. Jessie is just 20-years old, and the Alabama-born singer first grabbed attention with her breakout track “Blue Strips,” and of course her “High Road” duet with Koe Wetzel.

And the controversy I’m referring to comes from the aforementioned music video for her song “1965,” which had fans pretty disturbed because of how graphic it is. The video starts off simple enough: retro filter, big hair, white dress, grainy camera footage. It feels campy, like a Pinterest wedding meets ’60s fever dream. Then it shifts. I’d embed it, but let’s just say it goes beyond your standard NSFW warning label.

We see Jessie dancing in front of her supposed husband and his family, looking calm, detached even. Then he walks off with another woman, and Jessie just sits there smoking a cigarette. No emotion. No reaction. Nothing.

But it’s the 1:30 mark where things go from strange to straight-up uncomfortable. Jessie stands there and watches as her husband cheats on her… right there, onscreen. It’s graphic, not in a TV-MA way necessarily, but enough to make most people stop the video and say, “What the hell am I watching?”

Of course people flooded the comments section with their concern, and many wanted Youtube to remove it. The video is still up right now, and over on TikTok, though, people have been much more critical over the opening verse which is… something:

“I might get a little slap slap
But you wouldn’t hit me on snapchat
Don’t f****** text me at 2am saying where you at at
Boy f*** you”

It’s being called out for normalizing domestic violence in a throwaway line and trying to pass it off as some kind of edgy Gen Z anthem. People aren’t just mad. It genuinely made a lot of listeners uncomfortable.

As backlash grew, Jessie responded, claiming the whole thing was satire:

@jessiemurphhh♬ 1965 – J E S S I E M U R P H

But people didn’t seem to like her live performance of it much better during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon yesterday, which was obviously not as graphic as the music video, but didn’t exactly resonate in the much more PG form, either.

She’s fully clothed, singing by herself, with just a singular ballet dancer in the background:

Jessie Murph performs “1965” on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.’ pic.twitter.com/gZlN5fJrR7

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) July 22, 2025

In the replies to the above X post from Pop Crave, fans didn’t seem too impressed with the artistic angle and concept in general of this song and performance:

What is he doing back there lol this song does not call for all this

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