Cruelty Party - Tanner Mayes (2026)

This is not background music. This is active listening required. No discussion of "Cruelty Party - TANNER MAYES" is complete without addressing its visual component. The music video, which has garnered over 2 million views on YouTube (a significant number for an independent release), is a fever dream of pastel pinks and digital rot.

Directed by underground visionary Lux Void, the video features Mayes at a dinner party where the guests are mannequins. As the song progresses, the food rots in real-time. The lighting shifts from warm candlelight to strobes of red and blue. By the end, Mayes is dancing alone in a room filled with shattered glass, smiling. Cruelty Party - TANNER MAYES

"You brought the champagne / I brought the chains / Everyone’s laughing / It’s starting to rain." This is not background music

But that is the point. The "Cruelty Party" is not for everyone. It is for the misfits, the wallflowers, the ones who have felt the sting of a social circle that pretends to love you while picking you apart. The music video, which has garnered over 2