awful things
Jeremy Zucker
Co-written with Lil Peep, this track merges Zucker's gentle indie sensibility with emo-trap's heavier emotional weight, and the tension between those two aesthetics is what gives it texture. The production is darker and more layered than Zucker's usual work — distorted elements creep beneath the melodic surface, suggesting something unraveling beneath a composed exterior. The theme is grief in the aftermath of a relationship's dissolution, not dramatic heartbreak but the lingering damage — the way someone's cruelty leaves marks that persist long after they're gone. Zucker's vocals carry a quiet devastation, while the song as a whole becomes a kind of eulogy for something that hurt you while it was alive. It captures a specific millennial/Gen Z experience of relationships conducted partly online, partly in real life, both modes leaving their own particular wounds. You return to this on nights when an old memory surfaces uninvited and refuses to leave quietly.
slow
2010s
dark, hazy, layered
American indie / emo-trap crossover
Indie Pop, Emo Trap. Emo-pop crossover. melancholic, devastated. Opens in quiet grief and sinks deeper into lingering, unresolved emotional damage without offering any exit.. energy 3. slow. danceability 2. valence 2. vocals: hushed male, quietly devastated, melodic, tender and fragile. production: layered synths, distorted undercurrents, dark atmospheric elements, subtle emo-trap influence. texture: dark, hazy, layered. acousticness 3. era: 2010s. American indie / emo-trap crossover. Late at night when an old painful memory surfaces uninvited and refuses to leave you alone.