“It’s Alright?” by sammy. /REVERSIES featuring utautau is a chaotic, cathartic cry spiraling through grunge and alt hip-hop, a genre-blending explosion of anguish, tenderness, and raw self-exposure. Right from its opening, where slashing guitar riffs and thunderous drums charge ahead like a storm, the track sets a volatile emotional tone. Sammy’s high vocals come with vulnerability and defiance held like that of a fragile thread holding back a flood. Then comes utautau, slicing through the fog with fierce, emotionally charged Japanese rap.
The entire song thrives on this tension between collapse and resistance, English and Japanese, melody and dissonance. The chorus, echoing “It’s alright? It’s alright, even if I’m not alright,” becomes a distorted mantra of exhaustion and reluctant acceptance. Their voices, snarling with contradiction, don’t seek resolution. They coexist in the grey space between numbness and rage, vulnerability and resentment. The soundscape is just as torn as sharp guitar riffs slashing, the drums punching holes into silence, and the bridge melts into a jagged and breathless, desperate rap verse.
Lyrically, the track is brutal in its honesty. Expressing dejection and self-loathing, he sings, “Nobody wants this broken song I sing” and “Please kill me now before my words can drag you down.” Sammy and utautau plunge into mental illness, alienation, self-hate, and the aching desire for connection, all while questioning if hope itself is even deserved. There’s no neat catharsis here—just noise, scars, and sincerity.
With “It’s Alright?”, sammy. /REVERSIES asks if being not okay can still be enough. And in that asking, the song becomes its own answer.
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Review by: Naomi Joan