I was intrigued by the single’s cover art, was that what Lil Peep really looked like? It looked more like a blurry picture of Link from The Legend of Zelda to me. I was instantly hooked by the way it combined the trap production I was starting to get into at the time with the emo guitars I was raised on by my parents through bands like Fall Out Boy and Taking Back Sunday (and those sleigh bells!). I remember listening to the track on my headphones on SoundCloud on the bus going to a marching band competition and showing it to my friends.
“Kiss” is the song that introduced me to Lil Peep through a “Best New Track” designation from Pitchfork. Peep is brutally honest about his experience with this, and the result is a dark track that is oddly comforting, and, for me at least, serves as a reminder that it’s okay to admit that life can suck sometimes. There are a bunch of horrible, seemingly unsurpassable scenarios that we can find ourselves in, yet we still find that “Life is Beautiful.” We can only try to convince ourselves of this so much. On “Life is Beautiful” Peep uses juxtaposition to describe just this. However, through all the pain and suffering, we still are tasked to be grateful and find beauty in the darkness. Sometimes we enter a place so dark that we really cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it feels like when we enter this place, we are confined to it forever. It seems jarring at times, but it’s also very real, honest and well crafted. “Life is Beautiful”, a posthumous remake of an early loosie called “Life”, is one of Peep’s more morbid and direct songs. I hope it one day receives a critical reevaluation like other major label breakthrough emo albums such as Jawbreaker’s Dear You. COWYS was a big step for Peep, and it was never supposed to be his final work. Brightside”, but filtered through the drugs and depression of Lil Peep’s music. The lyrics find Peep jealous over a girl and are similar to The Killer’s “Mr. The featured guitars are palm-muted and liquidy, then transition to big and anthemic during the choruses. It’s like an emo ballad with trap drums and production. However, I think it has a lot of great songs, and “The Brightside” is a great example. Some fans took the more accessible song structures and cleaner production as signs that he’d sold out. Many critics found his emo-tinged vocals to be monotone or annoying and his lyrics to be retreads of his earlier work. 1, Lil Peep’s official debut album and the only one released during his life, was divisive upon release. – Deegan Poores and Markus BecerraĬome Over When You’re Sober, Pt. These are our picks for the twenty-best Lil Peep songs. Some people may pick songs that lean toward the mainstream, but we tried to strike a balance between these two branches of Peep’s output.
At its best, his songwriting was deeply personal but intimate and relatable with choruses that were made to be screamed alone in your car. This comes through in the way he writes and frames his songs, using typical trap lyrics of over-indulgence and self-destruction to soundtrack his attempts to cope with this realization. He recognized early in life that being a sensitive person in America and in modern society, in general, can be exhausting and defeating. Peep was a sensitive, thoughtful person who cared deeply about those around him. I think that this largely comes down to the content of his songs. Regardless, his popularity and fame have soared over the last few years. During his life, he was rejected by hip-hop fans for not being rap enough and emo kids for not being true to the genre’s roots. Lil Peep, the emo-trap artist who passed away just over three years ago, was a pioneer in the genre that has continued to grow since his passing.
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