Starting 2025 with a fearless energy fast becoming her trademark, renforshort releases a new single designed to skewer pretense and plunge into emotional rawness. “pretend to like me,” the song is the first taste of her forthcoming EP, “a girl’s experience,” due for release by June 6th. If this is any signal, it’ll be a raw, reflective, and rousing experience.
“pretend to like me” seems like an unvarnished diary entry cloaked in grunge-colored alt-pop. The production has a slinky 90s pulse flannel-wrapped angst and has a sit-down with modern polish, but renforshort’s voice, cascading over all this, steals the show. She doesn’t merely sing about insecurity but encases her anxieties in soaring melodies, letting them bounce around every word.
The chorus hits like a gut punch. It is both catchy and purifying, intended to strike a chord with anyone who has second-guessed a social transaction or ever felt like an outsider. “pretend to like me” hit so hard because of its emotional honesty. renforshort digs deeper and lays it all bare, unflinching the need for acceptance, the fear of being too much, and the aching desire to be seen unfiltered. It’s the kind of song that embraces feelings in the most blissfully anthemic way.
If this track indicates what “a girl’s experience” will explore, renforshort is preparing to put forth material that doesn’t merely speak to the times but screams with them. “pretend to like me” is a confession dressed in a chorus, a mirror for the misfits, and a brassy reminder that feeling too much is better than not feeling at all.
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