“Basic Being Basic” is the first release from Djo in 2025. This single is the first major release from Djo since his second studio album back in September 2022.
The song is about critiquing superficiality and materialistic expectations of others while also expressing a yearning for more authentic a...
[Verse 1]
Get food, barely eat
Every bite just kept me glued to my seat
I worried, even cried
How'd it feel to take the light from my life?
Bad habit, even worse
Fifty-fifty, I'm a sucker for looks
Asked for it, here it is
A quick example 'cause you wanted the hits
[Chorus]
I think you're scared of being basic
That's ironic 'cause it's reading like you're even more basic
It's not funny, it's so funny
'Cause you're basic
Just looking hot and keeping monotone and understated nothingness
Won't change it
(Good luck with that, good luck with what?)
It's not funny, but it's so funny
[Verse 2]
I don't want your money, I don't care for fame
I don't wanna live a life where that's my big exchange
I want simple pleasures, friends who have my back
Everyone has secrets, but not everyone can fool a man like that
It sent me reeling, still not the same
It's like my capacity to love and give has changed
I guess I'll thank you and spite your name again
The past's the past, and I'll outlast the hate to find real love that's not pretend
[Chorus]
How basic (Sell me on it)
Shuffle numbers, pointing fingers, ditching chats in different apps
That's basic (Haha)
It's not funny, it's so funny
That's just basic being basic (Basically)
You said he looked just like a girl, so you like girls
I guess I'll take it
Yeah, that's funny, you're so funny (Ha-ha-ha-ha)
[Bridge]
Change your body, change your face, curl your hair then make it straight
Take a picture of your plate, Tarantino movie taste
Rah-rah, cheugy-phobe, Vera Bradley's back in Vogue
It's a flash photograph
[Outro]
What an empty epitaph that is (That's basic)
What an empty epitaph that is (That's basic)
What an empty epitaph (That's just basic being basic)
Yeah, my tight five might get a laugh as is
If that's funny, I'm not funny
Basic Being Basic was written by Djo & Adam Thein.
Basic Being Basic was produced by Djo & Adam Thein.
Djo released Basic Being Basic on Fri Jan 24 2025.
It’s kind of a shot fired to anyone who’s trying to be of the moment.
— via NME