Le Junk’s glamorous childlike rubbish ‘Bad Stuff’ via Naked Superstar Recordings — currently in its 8th week since being released on July 29th, 2021 — started off as inspiration for himself in his own music video for ‘Rich Romance’ where he wore the exact same festooned ‘80s vintage suit to flash his status.
Sitting in an upscale directors chair at a friend’s studio in East London, Le Junk (first name not revealed due to the artist being an enigma) dabbles in some bad stuff. First, as he partakes in a 4-pack of powdered sugar donut goodness, then the sudden difficulties getting through a whole video recording take before the cake monster’s facial dessert-themed gimmick begins to melt.
“It seemed like the best way to turn a cake into a person,” he says, about how the shirtless idea came into play behind cakeface. The colourful comedic back-and-forth gibberish of Bad Stuff explores an addictive personality, a halfwit representation of someone being tormented by their own cravings, but hides beneath a masked party animal persona that seems like he’s having fun. He sings in a self-assured groove-laden whisper, a telephoned tongue-in-cheek confectional static.
A swag-strutting gangster lean amidst a mashing addictiveness of cowbell, the glitz of Le Junk; a seductive multi-instrumentalist in his slinky Nintendo-like, on (the) air personality, broadcasts, “If you wanna get in-between, get all up in/My stuff. If you wanna question my ways, get up on me/Then stop.” Lyrics if it’s not stuff, it isn’t worth junk.
Le Junk, an emerging alternative-pop junkie, wants to be remembered as the guy who loves The Offspring, and the guy who loves people that look like cake (humorously speaking). He’s here to take his cake and eat it. He’s here to revitalize and revolutionize popular music.
