Rosebug
Introducing Rosebug—your new favorite band; press photo courtesy of the artists.
Brooklyn’s latest phenomenon Rosebug features Sharkmuffin’s Tarra Theissen on bass with word of their upcoming debut album Worst Way available now from Dazzleships Records. “I Am the One” is a song that will save your life. This is a song for when you feel that all hope has been abandoned and that the one & only hope left in the world is your own confidence to see you sailing safely & freely through the storm that is life. Lead by Becca Chodorkoff, Chris Nunez on guitar, percussionist Drew Adler with Tarra on bass duties; their debut album Worst Way was produced by Miles B. A. Robinson via the space owned by Chairlift known as The CRC known as hangout to Dev Hynes, MGMT & more. Rosebug is about to become one of your most beloved groups to keep you smiling this winter.
The single “I Am the One” wins the award of being one of the best songs of 2016. This presents Becca & the gang spelling out their most confident & honest musical illustrations where every lyric & note hits with some of the truest & majestic of resounding-resonances. The feeling of fluctuating between the polarities of being on the bottom to skyrocketing to unbelievable altitudes is executed in a near flawless & earnest exhibition of hearing Rosebug embracing the self-designed & created style that are riding high on; en route to the stars.
Rosebug singer Rebecca Chodorkoff shared with us the following exclusive insights into the self-actualization & power pop statement of autonomy that is “I Am The One”, along with thoughts on the making of their debut album Worst Way:
We recorded Worst Way in the winter months of 2015; tucked away in this little studio in Bed Stuy, called The CRC. During that time, even when we weren’t recording, it was all about what went on in that room. From the get-go our producer, Miles, understood on this very fundamental level what the tone, mood, and message of the album was. The priority then became: how do we represent these songs in the most genuine and playful way possible? It really was a mission of self-actualization; finding power inside of contradiction and uncertainty, being okay with making messes of ourselves—and making fun of the messes that we are.
Rosebug from left, Christopher Ray Nunez, Becca Chodorkoff, Tarra Thiessen & Drew Adler; press photo courtesy of the band.
“I Am the One” is the epitome of that sentiment. It’s unapologetic, a little bit vain, but wholly mindful of this. So often, we temper our confidence; convince ourselves that we’re unworthy, or that we’re not nearly as important as we may perceive ourselves to be. I have a propensity to fluctuate between these two opposing poles; of either feeling on top of the world or at the very bottom. This song is written from the high end of that spectrum. It’s about pushing forward, full throttle, with this unsubstantiated idea that many of us hold inside ourselves: that we’re somehow special, that we’re the stars of our own stories. And, perhaps more-so, it’s a defiant act of holding onto that feeling for dear life, even when insidious tinges of self-doubt start to creep in around the edges.
