K. Flay - Dreamers

This is how extraordinary it is with this woman. I don't listen to lyrics like AT ALL, HOWEVER, with this woman I feel like I know her inside turmiol, her thoughts. They way she writes them aren't the angsty exxagerated type, the "oh I'm so poetic and in pain and the suffering artist, woe is fucking me". Her songs I more like "oh so since we got onto the topic, this is how I feel about life..." as if you giuys hit it off a party that was quite good and walked back on your way home together, but ended up becoming distracted on the way home to sit in a dark field with the one spliff she was meant to smoke herself after coming back from the party. She is so matter of fact about her fears and annoyances with ehr straight forward lyrical delivery but still has a tint of coy or shy youthfulness in her voice like she is almost embarrassed to tell you how she really feels. An great juxaposition to her usually chilled out but melodic instrumentals which means I am here to have a good time and literally wallow in my sorrows my 2 stepping or nodding it out... no feel pity me but more so I feel bad right now and I don't mind if you do too. Her slowed down/spaced out near minialistic instrumentals almost allow you to take time to wallow and reflect in the time between each beat and space out if need to be. It's almost like I'm expecting when I go to see her on the 6th of Sep (which I am HAPS about) I'm expecting to see nodding heads and smiles but really inside wondering if they are going through issues themselves or are they similar in the sense to me that I literally am there for the instrumental (usually) then I'm out. Her medolic instrumetnals but the sad lyrics are almost teasing you like how can you feel this way but you're still rocking out to a tune, Can't be that serious then? That is what K.Flay doess, you don't know if she is making a self deprecating joke to hide her true feelings as well as to make herself feel better. You can't laugh but you giggle nervously because you know somewhere you feel the same exact way.



People who always have something negative to say usually wear me out bit here is something so pure, honest and matter of fact, not going to make a wordsmith out of me with k. flay lyrics and sound. That is what makes her so relatable to me. Instead of spending time to decipher, her lyrics are literally a mirror to my own thoughts right now that appears in a monet of calm, such as on the bus, in the shower etc. (especially poignant when I found her by searching into Youtube "I HATE EVERYONE" on a particularly bad day which led me to my angsty, fun anthem, We Hate Everyone). "I thought if I was smart, I would make it far but I'm still at the start" K. Flay whispers in the song Blood In The Cut to a graduate who is wondering if her last year three years were a waste of time and if selling her soul was worth it all.



I want to think she is cheesy, I want to tell her shut up and get over it. But how can I when I feel the same as much of her lyrics and her music allows me to sway at my own pace? How?... If Meg Myers is the angsty, fuck right off side of me then K. Flay is the "sighs, what was I doing then... hold on... what AM I doing?".



I want more songs where I can literally dance out my sorrows please. I want more songs where I can look at my problems and scoff at them as right now I am having a good time listening to an instrumental. I want more songs where they are upbeat enough to sway to but slow enough for it not to be such an effort to move my body as my body- and my mind- are tired. Tired. But just like K.Flay, I will try to look at it with a light heart.



Is K.flay the new voice of the middle class Millenial? I don't know but she is definetley voice that reflects me.