Tear Jerker / Joji

• plastic taste is probably the saddest Joji song yet. It's a James Blake-esque tragedy of a relationship withering from the narrator's own "plastic taste", and is led only by sparse beats over a low, brooding piano and vocal harmonies that sound like ghosts.
• George's remix of Daughter's "Medicine" is genuinely heartbreaking, so much so that it's often sparked discussion as to whether or not Joji suffers from depression.
  Don't be what you want to
  Don't be what you want to
  Don't be... you want to
  All the medicine
• "Will He", off the EP In Tongue is so sombering and heartwrenching, from Joji's harmonizing background vocals, the slow piano notes, to Joji's Despair Event Horizon lyrics in regards to the loss of a lover, but sort of goes into Heartwarming territory about caring about said lover.
  Will he play songs just the way that I did?
  Will he treat you like shit just the way that I did?
  Cause I don't blame you
  • Arguably everything off of In Tongues. "Will He" obviously, but the other songs...damn.
    • "Pills" is a lament from one line: "Please don't run away.."
    • "Demons" is borderline Sanity Slippage, from Joji's somber singing and heart-wrenching melody, and not even the Throw It In! ending doesn't help.
    • "Window" comes off as a sad perspective of The World Is Just Awesome with another view of Despair Event Horizon of Joji 'letting his dreams go'.
    • "Bitter Fuck". Even with a sarcastic title like that, it is not the usual Self-Deprecation from Joji, and it comes off as shocking from him to put himself down.
    • The Worldstar Money interlude, ouch.
• "yeah right", dear god "yeah right". The quiet beat, Joji's defeated vocal delivery, the lyrics...
  • The video...
• "SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK" sounds like it's from the perspective of a very Insecure Love Interest.
  Give me reasons we should be complete
  You should be with him I can't compete..
  • The video of the song. Dear god
• The acoustic version of "SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK" is just as heartbreaking as the original if not more so.
• "Run" has Joji in disarray over his feelings for someone who is now in a new relationship and feels that he has no choice but to run from said feelings.
• "Glimpse of Us" has Joji be in a relationship where his partner does a lot for him and has helped him through his troubles, but is still not over his previous one, and fakes that he is over his past relationship so he can suppress his neediness. Joji had yet to move on, but feels like he is forgotten by someone he is unable to forget himself.
  • The music video is a montage of found footage revolving around a group of people who have hit rock-bottom, and engage in crimes, violence, drugs, alcohol, and incivility that gets them in trouble with the law. Unlike the escapades in Filthy Frank which were mostly played for laughs and focused on absurdity, this feels much less humorous, almost like a form of lashing out at the world to make up for misery and pain.
  • The story behind the song puts it in a whole new perspective: producer Connor Mc Donough and his brother Riley are in the band that Christina Grimmie opened for the night of her assassination in 2016. Three years later, a still traumatized Riley recorded a voice note to his phone asking God “if I could only catch a glimpse of you.” It’s possible the couple didn’t break up; the partner died and the singer is still grieving. The single was released on the sixth anniversary of Christina’s death.

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