![]() ![]() “My music is not biographical,” he says, but even still, the deep, heavily shaded emotions in his songs are genuine and they speak to anyone who has ever felt stuck on the outside looking in, who knows what it means to not belong.Īfter establishing himself as a singular creative force with his 2017 EP In Tongues and first full-length album BALLADS1, released the following year, Joji returns in 2020 with NECTAR, a project he describes as having “a sense of urgency but calm.” That’s precisely the feeling of “Gimme Love,” a two-part song that begins at a feverish but steady pace before drifting off to a dreamy place at its midway point. It’s a fully realized world that his fans can inhabit and explore-and see themselves in. He has a total vision for his work, not just in terms of writing and producing his music, but the single and album artwork, the videos, merch, and live performances as well. The space where genres melt into each other, where contemporary R&B slides into downtempo pop, where nu-metal creeps into electronica where emotions get tangled-I love you I don’t want to be here-and confusion blossoms-that’s Joji too.īorn George Miller in Japan, Joji is a musician and auteur: a pop star for the 21st century. Specifically, the music video for his new single “Gimme Love”-but it’s also the in-between place that all of the artist’s work occupies. The viewer is in a place of compulsively watchable uncertainty. ![]() Flesh is caught in some inscrutable machinery. A man wipes red across his face after peering into a microscope. And then, suddenly, horribly, confusingly: blood. Everyone is hard at work on some ambitious scientific undertaking. There’s a presentation in a darkened room, standing phone calls placed in cubicles bright under overhead fluorescent lighting. The editing of these short scenes is fast enough to disorient, even as they evoke a kind of bubbly workplace sitcom. Later, the same man passed out in a library, head on some books spread across a table. An exasperated man pacing and studying a legal pad covered in hand-written equations. Green plants filling a rusted window box.
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