Rei brown, “Haunt Me” | LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶

In the 26^th edition of LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 (2022), we highlight the song, “Haunt Me” performed by rei brown.

Bring on the B-O-P-Z, like #SLAYYY! LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 is a column t that embraces, highlights, and celebrates singles and tracks by LGBTQIA musicians.  On LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶we provide background info and insight into the respective musician(s), as well as analyze + go gaga over the bops being served up.  Furthermore, when the music dictates deeper, more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is articulated to the fullest.  All styles of music are welcome and the BOPZ can be classics or brand-spanking new. So, without further ado, in the 26^th edition of LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 (2022), we highlight 🎵 “Haunt Me” performed by 🎙 rei brown.

Theme & Lyrics ✍ 

“I was in control; I’d been healing on my own / ‘til I saw the cold eerie glow from a call on my phone.”  Yep, 🎙 rei brown, that’s enough to completely stifle progress in getting over a breakup.  Brown’s reinstated anxiety and pain from the end of a relationship is the focus of 🎵 “Haunt Me”.  “Haunt Me” is one of the premiere songs from brown’s debut album, 💿 Xeno (short for xenophobia), released in July 2022. While you don’t wish anyone to relive traumatic happenings in their lives, brown’s heartaches are the listener’s pleasure in “Haunt Me.” This pop ballad by the Japanese, queer, alt-pop artist based in New York is gorgeous.

Brown goes on to sing, “And like a séance I felt your presence / It’s like you slipped in through the seams of all my dreams / tried to forget you…” This reemergence has thrown brown off – haunted him as the title reads.  In the chorus, he sums up these feelings perfectly, making them universally relatable whether you’re heterosexual, homosexual, or otherwise:

“Why do you haunt me? Pulling me back

Tryna get flames from a burnt-out match

Making me sad, keep picking these scabs

Nothing you do is gonna bring me back.”

Even though his ex is ‘trying him,’ and certainly getting under is skin, brown holds tough with that final lyric of the chorus.  He penned “Haunt Me” alongside 🎼 ✍ Harry Burr and 🎼 ✍ Stevie Bill.  Stitching up the production is brown, Burr, and 🎛 Frankie Scoca.

Final Thoughts 💭

It’s unfortunate that rei brown is being haunted by the past on 🎵 “Haunt Me”.  But, had he not been bothered by his ex, would we have been given this radiant ballad? This is another fine addition to an ever growing, impressive collection of LGBTQ+ gems.  But, just to reiterate, you don’t have to be a member of the community to enjoy or relate to this one.  It’s universal, baby!

🎙 rei brown • 💿 Xeno • 🏷 Jimaku Super • 🗓 2022

rei brown, “Haunt Me”: LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 No. 26 (2022) [📷: Anna Shvets, Brent Faulkner, Kurious, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay]