#I went into a jdilla rabbit hole for this post and WOW! I have been MISSING OUT fr

[onehunnit]

no bc youth was itching my brain like tugging on it bc I know and feel in my bones it's an r&b track but I was like.... why can't I fucking place it and I had the biggest brainfart in my life (FOR. DAYSSSS)

guys. it's lofi r&b (or jazz or hip hop or chillpop idc what you wanna call it their venn diagram is practically a circle) .... that's why it was hard to place for me b/c of the nostalgic aspect from the way the track is mixed.... (and because I live to defy occam's razor, apparently)

the piano gets lost as the rest of the instruments begins to mix. The drum fill was impeccable. I can hear influence from nujabes (which you would not BELIEVE how long it took me to remember his name brah). But the real stars of the show are the trumpet melody and the moments where the track lets the drum fill breathe by itself. The ambient sounds mixed in also help.

while I don't think that youth uses a sample, like many lofi songs (esp. nujabes) it's about the vibes and the simplistic instrumental (not to mention the nostalgic chords, that's what a minor key and do to a girl UGH I love it sm) along with the melting-pot mixing that contributes to the lofi feel.

edit: I listened to an instrumental track and they 100% included stuff from sample packs. the yungi vocals distracted me lmao

yet, the simplicity and the low fidelity feel (bc obv this was mixed and mastered to hell and back) just adds so much to the meaning of the song and the feelings of naiveté/ nostalgia/ melancholy that many youth feel when starting to grow up and try and find their place in the world. It's hope that has been forced to take a step back. It evokes the image of laying on my bedroom floor, the open window allowing the wind to flutter my sheer curtains wile the sun sets in the summer between high school and college.

It's uncertainty, it's being scared, it's all the complex feelings that come with growing up summed up in a simple chord progression and drum beat.

Adults say that youthfulness, this one word/ Means sadness as joy and to enjoy the present, indeed.