LEX Releases Unreleased Song 'So Sad' Written at 18
The release puts a direct record of LEX's teenage struggles into circulation, weeks before his largest live show at TOYOTA ARENA TOKYO.
Reporting from 1 source: KAI-YOU.
Rapper LEX released the unreleased track "So Sad" on September 9. He wrote the song when he was 18, and it first aired August 29 on the NHK E-tele documentary PASS THE MIC, where LEX and his sister LANA spoke with teenagers facing loneliness. Australian composer In Bloom wrote the music. LEX plays TOYOTA ARENA TOKYO on October 30.
"So Sad" is a ballad built on delicate piano and sweeping strings, composed by Australian musician In Bloom, who has written many of LEX's signature songs. The track first aired August 29 on the NHK E-tele documentary PASS THE MIC, where LEX and his sister LANA spoke directly with teenagers carrying loneliness and a sense of having no place to belong. LEX chose the song for that audience, and its plain-spoken lyrics carry the pain and conflict he felt as a young artist under expectation and criticism. LEX plays TOYOTA ARENA TOKYO on October 30, his largest live to date.
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