Auckland musician Ary Jansen used to play guitar and sing in Team Ugly and Ralph and currently plays drums for Ragged Veins. ‘I Wanna Be Ignored’ Is the first single from a solo EP “Cut-Off” which is released on the 3rd of September.
As you may have guessed “I Wanna Be Ignored” subverts the narcissistic self-adoration rock musician fixation exemplified by the classic Stone Roses hit “I Wanna Be Adored”.
In place of overblown messianic narcissism, Ary Jansen – via self-explanatory expository lyrics – mixes wry humour with self-effacing (and maybe a bit of self-loathing) self-awareness. If the word “self” is used too many times in that sentence it’s maybe because “I Wanna Be Ignored” is all about sense of self and the stuff that society attaches to what people think we are rather than who we really are.
Musically this starts minimal guitar pop (delightful jangling picking over a bit of Velvet’s chug-a-rama) and then, at the 1 minute mark, it flowers into a beautifully off-kilter merging of lo-fi electro-pop and guitar pop. It’s an odd little pop gem but odd pop is what we like best here at PopLib.
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