In Need Of Fluffy Clouds

Sycco “My Ways”

At face value “My Ways” is a bop with hooks that seem to easily fall into each other in sequence like a row of dominos. The arrangement breezy and bright, conveying a general vibe of carefree weightlessness. Sycco’s lyrics tell a different story – mundane actions, constant neuroses and paranoia, a pervasive sense that she’s at war with her own mind and imprisoned by her habits. She tries to calm herself down, she tries to imagine a happy situation, but the mental undertow brings her back to despair. “Want a break from my brain,” she sings in the bridge, “insane, so much I’m feeling!” The irony of the song is that it feels like the “no thoughts, head empty” state she craves, but then again, maybe the song was designed to bring her – and us – into that blissful oblivion.

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