Bladee — egobaby

Bladee

egobaby

The Fool · 2021

This song has been out for several years. It's one of Bladee's best songs. I keep revisiting it for several reasons:

  1. The opening line, "There's levels to everything — Avicii" has lived rent-free in my head for years. He's eulogizing the late Swedish artist but is sort of... annoying about it? I didn't realize that's how Avcii is pronounced.

  2. The video is amazing and bizarre. Did Bladee get a soundstage for this? Was he inspired at all by Synecdoche, New York?

  3. egobaby is Bladee at his most woefully poetic:

    In my heart, in my arms, be forever, baby
    Eons at a time never die, never die forever
    I'm in your mind if you think about me sometimes, baby

    He’s trying to kill his ego, connect to someone he’s lost, and is having a mental break about it (or at least that’s how I interpret the laughing at the end of the track.)