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A music video for "The Dumb Song" directed by Edoardo Ranaboldo and Austin Roa was released on April 21, 2023. [5] The video differs from the band's standard music videos by centering the focus on AJR writing and producing the song over a year-and-a-half period, starting with the writing process in a newly built studio in October 2021. [6]
The discography of American indie pop trio AJR consists of five studio albums, forty-three music videos, eight extended plays, twenty-seven singles, [needs update] and eight promotional singles. The band is also featured on seven songs and have three independent releases.
AJR at "We the People" in 2021American indie pop band AJR has written or co-written every song in their discography, except various covers and two featured songs.The trio was formed by the brothers—Ryan Met (keyboard, ukulele, vocals), Jack Met (guitar, sampler, lead vocals), and Adam Met (bass guitar, backing vocals)—in Chelsea, Manhattan. [1]
AJR began writing a concept for an "old western/hip hop" song, titling it "So What" and creating a demo on March 27, 2020. It was intended to be released on OK Orchestra, but was met with negative reactions from friends and family. The band wrote five more iterations before settling on "Yes I'm a Mess", with the lyrical idea of "throwing out ...
After AJR released their second studio album, The Click (2017), they faced severe writer's block. [2] In an interview, Ryan Met tells Billboard "We were at Columbia University [and] we were having a tough time because we had terrible writer's block, and "100 Bad Days" was actually the song that solved that writer's block".
The lyrics to "Bummerland" describe hitting rock bottom with the optimistic mindset of "the only way to go is up", [7] while also including quarantine anecdotes. [8] The bridge of the song features "instrumoprhing", a transition from one instrument into another produced in a way to make it morph rather than cut, with "Bummerland" using a voice, trumpet, guitar, and violin. [9]
Throughout August and September 2023, AJR posted production snippets of "Touchy Feely Fool", later sending a studio-quality snippet of the song through their mailing list in October 2023. [2] The full song became available through an event in collaboration with Rec Room on November 2, and officially released as the second track of The Maybe Man ...
"My Play" is composed in 4 4 time signature in the key of C-sharp minor and follows a tempo of 79 beats per minute (bpm).. The instrumental composition heavily layers detuned sped-up female vocals, an 808 MPC/drum kit hybrid, several guitars, and violins to create a "big, cluttered, panicky headache".