egative Shawdy’s hyperpop anthem “Same Room” charms with its honesty | Tracks

Each every now and then a bed room artist with hyperpop tendencies and a tongue-in-cheek inflection rises from the ranks to stake their declare as the following it-thing. We have seen it with Remi Wolf, with PinkPantheress, and now we’re primed for the ascendancy of Negative Shawdy. Backed by a musical lineage together with the probably coolest “have you ever met my cousin?” potential ever, the business legend and infamous boundary-pusher Janelle Monáe, Negative Shawdy’s music feels distinctly purposeful.

Viewing her artwork as a car to excavate and study her sexuality, within the course of Negative Shawdy creates funky and foolhardy anthems of coming to phrases with each facet of your individual as a complete. Standing in the midst of the Venn diagram of hip-hop, R&B, and pop, and swirling round within the soupy area to create a glisteningly glitchy sonic palette, Negative Shawdy’s music embodies the electrical essence of 90’s rave tradition infused with distinctly trendy hyperpop components and bashful, self-effacing lyrical tropes.

Emblematic of this reversed-retro aesthetic, her newest observe “Similar Room” utilises a pattern from Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner” and brings it into the twenty first century. “I can by no means love you want I wish to / Give your time to all people else,” the observe swaggers in its opening, “I say issues that I do not imply / After which I find yourself sleeping on my own”, earlier than Negative Shawdy introduces the listener to her infectiously awkward, self-deprecating caricature.

Exploring a sense of disconnect with these round you, particularly these you’re presupposed to be closest with, the observe is charming in its authenticity and full lack of pretence. Negative Shawdy explains, “‘Similar Room’ captures the frustration of being in the identical area as your associate however feeling an emotional distance. I needed to convey the eager for intimacy and the battle to attach when your associate places up partitions, regardless of all efforts to bridge that hole.”

It is solely a matter of time earlier than Negative Shawdy’s bed room sound breaks free from the confines of her 4 partitions, and rallies the coming-of-age lots in search of such unbridled, creative self-expression.