Basic Being Basic

"Basic Being Basic" is a synth-pop/indie-pop eye-roll from Djo. Condition: trying very hard to look effortless while everyone else pretends not to notice. He skewers superficiality, online posturing, and the societal pressure to conform to ever-shifting cultural trends. Keery described the song as "kind of a shot fired to anyone who's trying to be of the moment."

Keery targets digital-age obsessions and the primacy of image curation, rattling them off with deadpan precision - "shuffle numbers, pointing fingers, ditching chats" - before delivering the thesis statement: that's just "basic being basic."

Keery was careful not to frame the song as a manifesto. "I was not trying to make some big, cultural statement," he told The Guardian before acknowledging that social media has a way of sanding down rough edges until everything starts to look the same. "I do think that we are kind of at risk of homogenising everything and losing rare things in different corners of the world."