In their latest track, “Juicy Boom,” the genre-agnostic group Things Change combines mashup-punk urgency and alternative grit with a wacky, fruity twist to create something that sounds like biting into a cold orange after a week-long fever. At a shade over three minutes long, “Juicy Boom” is a gut-level reclamation anthem cloaked in fuzz and soaked in juice.
“Juicy Boom,” born of a fevered moment of illness, is based on the true story of being ill in bed, feverish and parched, and having a sudden overpowering craving for citrus and imagination that was sparked to life. That yearning and the satisfaction of it birthed the song’s incendiary emotional center. This off-kilter, human moment allows “Juicy Boom” to have its zany heart while maintaining authenticity.
The song starts with a deceptively gentle intro and then bursts open with full-blown punk-pop drama. It has a fever-dream quality to the way it builds, each layer growing more intense until it arrives at a skin-ripening juicy conclusion. Guitars hum like static. The vocals balance gritty candor and melodic elation. And below that, there’s this churning, almost sugary current in the fruit, the juice, the boom.
“Juicy Boom” is immersive, whimsical but visceral, surreal but anchored in something tangible and the elemental joy of fruit on the tongue after days of drought. This is the kind of punk song you hardly ever come across, so it is honest, strange, and tender in its inspiration.
“Juicy Boom” is distinguished by its backstory or fusion of style, and it’s driven by a 100-million-percent commitment to making something as mundane as craving a citrus fruit into a full-fledged immersion. The result is as natural and unfiltered as it is bursting with the life that Things Change seems to have had to fight to recapture during their sickbed epiphany.
This song does not request to be listened to in a traditional sense. Ideally, it is meant to be felt with headphones and a juicy orange. With “Juicy Boom,” Things Change reminds us that healing, joy, and rock ‘n’ roll can bloom in unlikely places. And sometimes, the weirdest ideas are the most fruitful songs.
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