New Music: Kai Bosch – Funny

It may be titled Funny, but the new track from alt.popper Kai Bosch is deadly serious – and sharp – when it comes to matters of the heart. Like Icona Pop on the morning after, or Troye Sivan revenging a text message breakup, Funny is raw and vulnerable in turn, showcasing Bosch’s contemplative side with sassy lyrics and savage wit.

“Funny was a total accident for me,” says Bosch. “I usually like to write about things in hindsight when I can look at something from a distance where I can be a lot more reflective and poetic in my dissection of something – however, with Funny I came into that studio angry!”

“I had been having a really terrible week, I bumped into my ex on the tube for the first time since we broke up and he was a totally different person – that broke my heart all over again, but to make matters worse I found out the next day that he was in a relationship with someone else, and had been since we broke up.”

“I went through such a whirlwind of emotions, but eventually settled on anger, so when I rocked up to the studio with my friend Gabe Coulter, I ended up word-vomiting the most unfiltered and unsubtle thoughts into that microphone.”

“As a whole, Funny explores the resentment and anger that I feel for my ex, but also how embarrassing I find it that I spent so long yearning for him – every time that I held my breath going past his stop on the tube, looking for his face in a sea of commuters at rush hour, six months of hoping we would cross paths again and reunite as something other than strangers only to find he had been with someone else the whole time – soul crushing!”

You can check out Funny and more music from Kai Bosch on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube. For ticket details of upcoming live appearances in London, Brighton, Manchester, and Glasgow, be sure check to out his Facebook and Instagram feeds.

Header photo by Sam Taylor-Edwards