Mating Ritual

Turns out releasing a new single isn't all rainbows and puppies. Artists spend months fine-tuning a product, often-times detaching themselves from the original feeling the song came from in the first place. Then, when the big reveal comes along, things can either go swimmingly well, or spectacularly wrong. Mating Ritual doesn't mince words when describing this process (you can check his blog post here), which makes the release of "I Wear Glasses" all the more interesting to me. This, clearly, is a work of art with a lot of thought behind it. To quote Ryan Marshall Lawhon: “I Wear Glasses” is the lubricated vision of a could-be hookup with a strong, confident woman. It’s the moment you finally make a move and all the wrong, clichéd lines come out; the moment you lose all fear of romantic pastiche and just let shit fly."