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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]
"Role Models" is a politically driven song, [3] written as a response to the media controversy surrounding Kanye West, a significant influence on AJR's music. [4] Band member Adam Met cited My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) as a favorite album of the trio in an interview with San Francisco Chronicle, later describing the difficulty of enjoying it with knowledge of West's character ...
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 ...
It appears as the opening track of The Click, which was released via the band's label AJR Productions on June 9, 2017. The song is AJR's second overture, following one of the same name on their debut album Living Room. A music video was released later in the year, featuring the trio at various locations in Columbus, Ohio.
"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".
The music video is painted, visually depicting Jack singing each verse of the song. [7] The video ends with Jack running through various settings including a forest, a hospital, and the autumn landscape of their 2021 album OK Orchestra before flying into space. This scene was additionally used to promote the album's reveal on August 28, 2023.
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]
A music video directed by the Mitchells and Spencer Hord was released on August 30, 2018. The video cuts between the band performing the song in a purple-lit warehouse and the band sitting on a gold bench with blindfolds being led from room to room with political imagery before ending with a fiery protest. [10]