Role Model

One Liner: Generic bedroom pop and rapping.  Feels like the first release from a former boy band guy trying to make it on his own.

Wikipedia Genre: Pop, bedroom pop
Home: L.A.

Poster Position: 14
Weekend One Only.  Saturday.

Thoughts:  Relatively rare to do, but just by looking at the photo at the top of his Spotify page, I could tell that this was going to blow.  Either emo pop punk or emo rap electronica was about to be delivered to my ears, and here we go.  His big hit is one of the plainest electronic rap songs I can think of - super generic synth beat and him singing/speaking generic platitudes on top of it.  "I've never seen something quite like you" is said at least 3,000 times.  This is "blind."  75.8 million streams.

I'm sure this was some sort of TikTok hit and that is why it has so many streams.  The video actually endeared me to him a little bit - just a purely positive guy in the face of rage.  He really needed some better friends to help him with tattoo selection though.

Real name is Tucker Pillsbury, which is a very funny sounding real name.  Big fan of that being his name.  If he didn't play lacrosse at an exclusive boarding school in New Hampshire with that name then he really missed out.  His Wikipedia says that he grew up in Maine and went to college in Pittsburg.  After breaking his wrist twice, once while skiing and once while skateboarding, he was stuck in his dorm and started messing around with making beats and mixtapes.  Then he dropped out of college.  He started performing as Tucker, and then tried rapping under the name Dillis, before settling on this one.  He got a Mac Miller co-sign in 2018, so that is probably where he got some notoriety from.

Just one album - 2022's Rx, following behind a pile of singles and EPs.  The top track off of that new album is "forever&more" with 25.4 million streams.

Like a Boy Band song where one of the guys from the band steps forward to sing his little love ballad while the other guys take a backseat for one tune.  I can't try to say it isn't catchy, but it also is deeply inane.  Like, it feels like I'm back to watching Aaron Carter try to launch a career.  Just super basic tunes, unimaginative lyrics, and a vaguely whiny vocal.  Dude could easily actually be a model though...

No interest in seeing this at all.