Johnny Stimson

One Liner: What I imagine a Justin Beiber b-side would sound like

Wikipedia Genre: no Wikipedia, indie R&B pop dreck
Home: Maybe Dallas, maybe New York City.  Who really knows.

Poster Position: Third Quarter - Line 19
Day: Friday
Weekend Two Only.

Thoughts:  Oh man, I am in the valley of sonic death right now.  This guy screwed with me, as his Spotify cover picture looks like a young Willie Nelson, black cowboy hat, beard, and braids all included.  And then you click play and this is what I imagine Justin Beiber's b-sides sound like.  Kind of an indie R&B sort of sound, very soft and soulful and boring.

No Wikipedia, but a Reddit thread says that a member of the K-Pop band BTS covered once of his songs in 2019, and it made the song go massively viral in South Korea.  I had to get to the third page of Google results to find any sort of background on the dude - I'm sure its all available on TikTok or something - but it was pretty useless.  "Johnny Stimson captures the full spectrum of human emotion in his music, weaving love and loss, joy and sorrow, nostalgia, and growing up into melodies that transcend borders."  Oh, thanks AI!  That doesn't sound like the background blurb of every artist ever, at alllllll!  According to another blurb, he was born in New York City in 1988 and taught himself to play guitar as a teen.  He collaborated with "the music industry's top artists, including Lennon Stella, Samantha Jade and Bryce Vine."  Yeah, sure.  Those people are definitely bigger than Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and the next 7,278 most popular artists.  Strangely, the tiny little "Overview" on Google says that he is a Dallas-born musician who blends soulful rasp with modern pop to create romantic melodies that spread positivity.  Are there possibly two Johnny Stimsons?

At the end of the day, for me, I do not care where he is from and who he has worked with, because I cannot stand these songs.  Top track is "Flower" with 65.3 million streams, from his 2021 album of the same name.

eeeeyyyahhhhaaaawwwwww, eyyyy eyyyy eyyyyyy.  If you have been reading me for a while, you know that R&B has never been my thing, but this just feels so paper thin and forgettable.  If this guy is still on anyone's radar by this time next year, I will learn how to make a super jenky beat on a computer just like him.  I wondered if maybe his new single would give me something different to go with the Willie look.  Not so much.  This was released 11 days ago and has 68k streams.

I'm just going to have to burn one of the artists on the poster that I already know I like, because I need to get out of this rut.  Blurg.  I will not go see this.