Writing a song that is genuinely funny and genuinely upsetting at the same time is much harder than doing either, and the people who manage it tend to get filed as novelty for a few years before anybody admits what is going on. The material here is piano-led and conversational, built on the kind of observation you would text a friend rather than announce, and it has found an audience largely made of people who heard one song at exactly the wrong moment in their own life. That makes for an intense room. Everybody is singing, and a surprising number of them are also crying, and nobody appears to find that combination strange. The band arrangements open the songs up considerably from the recordings. Bring the friend who sends you lyrics with no context attached, because they have almost certainly already heard this and will not have mentioned it.
Writing a song that is genuinely funny and genuinely upsetting at the same time is much harder than doing either, and the people who manage it tend to get filed as novelty for a few years before anybody admits what is going on. The material here is piano-led and conversational, built on the kind of observation you would text a friend rather than announce, and it has found an audience largely made of people who heard one song at exactly the wrong moment in their own life. That makes for an intense room. Everybody is singing, and a surprising number of them are also crying, and nobody appears to find that combination strange. The band arrangements open the songs up considerably from the recordings. Bring the friend who sends you lyrics with no context attached, because they have almost certainly already heard this and will not have mentioned it.
Writing a song that is genuinely funny and genuinely upsetting at the same time is much harder than doing either, and the people who manage it tend to get filed as novelty for a few years before anybody admits what is going on. The material here is piano-led and conversational, built on the kind of observation you would text a friend rather than announce, and it has found an audience largely made of people who heard one song at exactly the wrong moment in their own life. That makes for an intense room. Everybody is singing, and a surprising number of them are also crying, and nobody appears to find that combination strange. The band arrangements open the songs up considerably from the recordings. Bring the friend who sends you lyrics with no context attached, because they have almost certainly already heard this and will not have mentioned it.