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The fourth track on AJR's second album 'The Click' features Rivers Cuomo and centres on the emotional numbness that can accompany growing up. Jack Met anchors the song with a refrain that frames adulthood as a kind of anaesthetic, the plea for help to 'sober up' doubled as a wish to feel something again. The lyric toggles between childhood nostalgia, recess in second grade, best friends who promised to keep in touch, and the present-tense realisation that party-time smiles rarely extend beyond the party itself. Cuomo's bridge supplies the counterweight, a repeated declaration that 'my favorite color is you' and a promise that the addressee keeps him young. The production is upbeat, the tempo brisk, the arrangement designed to carry a difficult subject without collapsing under its weight. An EP of remixes, including one by Steve Aoki, followed in 2018.
"Sober Up" is a track by AJR, from the album The Click, released 9th June 2017. Full lyrics are available below.
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