ZEDSU’s upcoming project Adomania shows his creative abilities and could project him into the limelight of the music industry.
ZEDSU pours his heart into this album. He reveals his inner demons and gives listeners an inside look into the thoughts he battles every day. From the personal lyrics to the versatile production, Adomania is a piece of art that people who have experienced the same thoughts can listen to and feel understood, and those whose thoughts have never taken over can enjoy the creativity put into the work.
“Listeners should expect to hear a kid in his bedroom, rapping, singing and crying his heart out, happy to escape suicidal ideations and still dealing with them on a day to day basis,” ZEDSU said. “Hip-Hop fused together with acid-like R&B that puts the listener in a sound space both familiar and foreign.”
“Stress in the Sun” is a track with an EDM-sounding beat by Malloy and melancholy lyrics from ZEDSU. The lyrics are delivered in a catchy tune, and although they are sad, they leave the listener captivated and wanting more. He describes the stress he is left with after a heartbreak.
In “Love / Dark Side,” ZEDSU uses word-painting to make a high-pitched, positive tone when singing about the positive aspects of love, but switches to a lower-pitched, almost speaking tone, to express the hurt he has experienced while in love.
“Too Fast” has a central theme of a love interest moving too quickly. Producers LoneOnMars_ and Saba LaGrange put listeners in a trance with the instrumentals that paint a picture of time moving quickly.
In “I Can’t Sleep Right Now,” ZEDSU presents a side of his voice and production that resembles his friend in the industry, TOKYO’S REVENGE. Produced by Fantom, this track is delivered with a happy beat and tone that conceals the sad lyrics. “I can’t sleep right now and I don’t know why I haven’t even tried to run / Maybe my mind is too damn f------ up, to lie again with you in bed,” ZEDSU lets out.
In the auto-tuned masterpiece “Doctor Who,” ZEDSU gives listeners an inside look into his mind, sharing different questions that he may ask himself often.
“Siren Sound” begins with a melancholy guitar-strumming beat, just as ZEDSU drops in rapping about the problems he struggles with mentally that trace back to a relationship. The rapper uses the pain in his voice to express his emotions in an incredibly creative way. This is a goosebump-causing track, and it is one of the most transcendental on the project.
ZEDSU exclaims, “I feel so insane in my head, I feel like I’m going down / Calling your name like a siren, will you hear my sound? / Rip me apart, tell me what I’m really worth / Inside of my heart I don’t feel like earth anymore.”
“Tap! (ft. Hipster Mills)” has a completely different sound that detaches it from the mood of the rest of the album. ZEDSU and Hipster Mills share some vulgar, fun lyrics to a Longboy-produced beat that sounds like triangles chiming.
ZEDSU teams up with sad boy rap icon TOKYO’S REVENGE on “Eyes,” a punk rock-sounding track about wanting to reconnect with someone from the past in a new, intimate way. The symbolism of the title “Eyes” is revealed throughout the song, as the two both sing “Eyes open wide” in their verses, meaning they have had a realization of why someone is in their lives, and they want to start looking forward in life with that person while leaving the past behind.
The album wraps up with the outro “What Have I Done,” where ZEDSU brilliantly uses a choked-up voice to explain experiences he has had in his life that have shaped him into what he is today. He moves back and forth from a slow pace to a quick pace, an artistic way of highlighting certain lines.
ZEDSU is a talented artist with versatile creativity who deserves a larger audience for the entirety of his discography. The meaning of the word “adomania” is a feeling one gets when their future seems to be arriving ahead of schedule. Based on the sad tone of the project, ZEDSU may have used this as the title in the sense that his life is moving quickly, but after listening to the project in-depth, listeners may see it as an alternative meaning: that his mainstream career is coming sooner than expected.
“Creating this project over the past 6 months has been a battle with being in love with the idea of being in love, and never actually grasping it,” ZEDSU said. “Letting emotions and other people’s feelings fall through my fingers and shatter on the floor.”
