St. South Drops New Single And Launches Global Remix Competition

Olivia Gavranich, or St. South, is set to release her first single of 2025 getting bad again this Friday, May 9. Alongside this is the launch of a remix competition, open globally for producers and artists to celebrate the massive milestone of reaching 50 million streams for her breakthrough track, Slacks.

Getting bad again is a raw and deeply personal meditation on mental health and community. Weaving soft, lo-fi textures with honest, vulnerable storytelling, the track creates an intimate soundscape.

"getting bad again is about navigating mental health – both my own, and the heaviness of almost losing people I love to their own mental health,” St. South shares. “The verses reflect how things show up for me when I’m not doing well – sleeping in, isolating myself to regulate – and learning to be patient with myself in spite of it.

"The chorus flips the narrative by becoming a plea to the people I’ve nearly lost, saying, ‘Maybe you could stay alive? I need you to stay alive.’ The lyric ‘maybe if it’s on my chin’ is a reference to the saying ‘take it on the chin’ — that pressure to toughen up and push through.”

This track comes as she launches her global remix competition. Slacks was first released on triple j Unearthed in 2012 and later appeared on the Vampire Diaries’ sombre soundtrack for a worldwide audience.

St. South, originally from Perth but now Sydney-based, got her break as an artist when she won the Bon Iver Stems Project for her remix of Wash over a decade ago. "It feels like coming full circle," she says. “A remix competition launched my career as a producer, and now I want to offer that same opportunity to others."

The competition is open to anyone, regardless of experience level. St. South says, "You don't need to be a producer to enter.

“When I entered the Bon Iver Stems Project, I had never produced anything in my life… I downloaded the stems and GarageBand in the same week and spent the next two weeks learning how to use the DAW while chopping up and rearranging stems.”

She encourages any musical creative to reimagine the track as their own: "All you need is curiosity and creativity".

Getting bad again revisits themes from St. South's BIG SADS EP, released in 2024. Writing the EP on the back of a breakup, BIG SADS was a delicately produced collection of tracks that explores love, loss and hopes for a better day. While it stemmed from a rough period, the EP ultimately laid the foundation for her growth as an artist in 2025.

You can enter the remix competition here. The competition opens today and closes on Friday, June 6 at 11:30 pm AEST. Prizes include:

REMIX COMPETITION PRIZES:

Winner:

• Your remix will be officially released via Nettwerk Music Group (Angus & Julia

Stone, St. South, Mallrat, James Vincent McMorrow, The Paper Kites)

• 1x Arturia Keylab Essential 49 mk3 Universal MIDI Controller

• A 1-on-1 Production Session with an Ableton Certified Trainer

• 1x St. South Jersey 

Runner Up:

• St. South merch bundle