AJR

Released: March 26, 2021

Featuring: Blue Man Group

Songwriter: Adam Met Jack Met Ryan Met

Producer: Ryan Met

[Verse 1]
Your happy friends
Call you depressing
Cause you wonder why we're all alive
Your downer friends
Think you’re too happy, too happy
Cause you still celebrate sometimes

Your hippie friends
Call you a sellout
Cause you buckle down and get a job
You still get high
But you're no hippie, no hippie
But all your work friends
Say you are

[Chorus]
I guess the last time you had any fun
Was way back when you weren't anyone

So goodbye Ordinaryish People
We had quite the run didn’t wе though
But you gotta be somebody sometimе
I don't wanna pack up and leave though
When you're nobody then nobody minds

[Verse 2]
Your pretty friends
They call you ugly
Your ugly friends
They call you vein
No you're not stupid
You're just special
Well that's what all your
Smart friends say

[Chorus]
I guess the last time you had any fun
Was way back when you weren't anyone

So goodbye Ordinaryish People
We had quite the run didn't we though
But you gotta be somebody sometime
I don’t wanna pack up and leave though
When you’re nobody then nobody minds

Attention please
Please yell if you're paying attention

I don’t wanna pack up and leave though
When you're nobody then nobody minds

The indie-pop band AJR—three brothers born and raised in New York City—achieved a startlingly quick level of success with 2013 track “I’m Ready", a buoyant electro-pop smash that was featured in the trailer for Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck and became certified US Platinum in 2015.

Adam Met (bass/vocals), is the oldest brother, a Columbia University graduate. Ryan Met (ukulele/piano/vocals), a bespectacled ‘94 kid is the band’s main songwriter, also having co-written Andy Grammer hits “Back Home” and the certified gold “Good To Be Alive”. Jack Met (vocals/guitar), is the lead vocalist who splits time between the band and attending Columbia.

AJR began in 2005, busking on the streets and in the parks of New York. Raised on vinyls from the 50s and 60s, AJR was initially inspired by the likes of The Beach Boys and Frankie Valli, but the original sound they’ve now created resembles a modern mix of those classic sounds, with flavors of Imagine Dragons, fun., and hip-hop production elements pointing towards Kanye West.

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