Lenny Zen’s ‘Stick Around’ is the sort of song that drifts in, soft and unassuming, and before you know it, you’re completely wrapped in it. It’s painfully honest, oddly comforting, with a persistent and enduring nature..
What makes this track hit so deeply isn’t just its dreamy, genre-blurring production, though the shimmering synths, crisp beats, and layered vocals are a beautiful blend of DIY pop and psychedelic melancholy- it’s the feeling that Zen is telling the truth. ‘Stick Around’ speaks for the version of yourself that still doesn’t quite have it all figured out. It’s an anthem for the in-between, for the late bloomers, the quiet drifters, the ones who still look back even as they move forward.
There’s an innocence to the melody- almost lullaby-like at times- but it’s undercut by a mature sense of self-awareness. You can hear Zen wrestling with time, with identity, with the slow erosion of youthful certainty. Hope peeks through in the way the track bends and swells, in the way the vocals carry you toward something new without ever letting go of what came before.
This isn’t a song built for big stages or explosive moments. It’s built for headphones. It’s for midnight thoughts, empty streets, long drives, and quiet decisions. The ones that matter most.
With ‘Stick Around’, Lenny Zen delivers a space to reflect, to breathe, and to exist in that beautifully disorienting place where who we were meets who we’re becoming.