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KIER Gets Honest About Her Twenties on 'Twenty Something'
"I think your twenties are sold to you as this exciting time where everything starts falling into place, but for a lot of us it feels like the polar opposite." I read that line from KIER and laughed, mostly out of recognition. I'm in my twenties too, and nobody warned me how much of it would be spent refreshing a group chat to find out who got engaged this week.
The sales pitch she describes is real. You're told this is the decade where things click, and then you look around and find that the clicking is happening to other people, on their own schedule, while you're still working out what the question is. Not disaster, just the reverse of the promise.
She goes further. "Everyone seems to be reaching different milestones at different times, and it becomes really easy to feel like you're falling behind." That's the bit that stays with me. Nobody is actually racing anyone, yet the feeling of being lapped is constant. One friend buys a flat, another moves abroad, someone you sat next to at school has a baby, and you're at home deciding whether a new houseplant counts as progress.
Twenty Something is her answer to all of that. "'Twenty Something' came from wanting to write about that honestly," she says, and the honesty is what makes it land. It's a song for the people who thought being a grown-up would arrive with more certainty than it has. Then, with a wink, she adds that it's also a bop for everyone else to enjoy. I love that aside. It's the most twenty-something thing imaginable: name the quiet panic out loud, then make sure there's something to dance to while you sit with it.
There's a generosity in that. She isn't asking anyone to wallow, and she isn't pretending the worry away either. She lets it be funny and true at once.
If you've ever felt behind on a timeline nobody actually wrote, this one's for you. Twenty Something is out now.
