A sense of chaos that is both more and less under control has dominated Jane Remover’s music since she first came to light in 2021 with her debut EP Teen Week. That same year she released her first album Frailty, and her name began to surface on sites like Paste or The Line of Best Fit, initially as one of hyperpop’s most important figures, then as a precursor of digicore, her more adrenaline-fueled version of the scene.
Particularly her third album Revengeseekerz and the EP ♡ consolidated her name last year, to the point of racking up millions of streams across all her tracks, proving that, above and beyond random viral moments, she commands a formidable level of loyalty among her followers.
The artist, who defines herself as “non-binarix,” asserts “not not trans, but not a trans woman” at the same time, and has no preference for the pronoun you use when addressing her (“I’m whatever you want,” she told NME, exhausted); she also has time to release music under other aliases or involve herself in political causes. She refused to share a festival bill with Temper City because one of its members had fought in the Israeli army, and she also releases music under aliases such as Leroy and Venturing.
In recent months she released a collaboration with AKRIILA, but otherwise had been a little quiet as Jane Remover. This week she has put that to rights by dropping the new single “Beauty Sleep,” which we introduced a few days ago on Ready for the Weekend and which is our Song of the Day today.
“Beauty Sleep” is one of those Jane Remover productions that knows how to steer chaos toward a good destination. The track begins like a small ambient tune, even featuring a watery-sounding guitar, before unleashing madness in full splendor. While the lyrics speak of someone who “comes to see us in dreams,” someone who approaches “human perfection,” the video wanders between some kind of lab experiment and the subsequent release (that motorcycle). Like SOPHIE, Jane Remover builds an alternate world in which anything is possible. Even that five different songs seem to be playing at once over the course of three minutes, and the idea actually works.
