Lenny Zen's "Stick Around": A Dreamy Anthem for Growing Pains and Living in the Now

With "Stick Around", San Diego artist Lenny Zen takes us on a personal, synth-laden journey into the official release of his EP, Revertigo!, a soul-searching song. It's a sonic daydream, which feels soft around the edges but emotionally cut down the center, captures that surreal intersection of being both a child and an adult, where nostalgia and uncertainty wrestle for dominance. 

"Stick Around" is written, produced, and performed by Zen. Lively and expansive, it has a deeply personal sense of intimacy. Zen places the listener into a sonic "daydream", a lush soundscape of crushed, shimmering synth tones, tightly-gated drums, dreaming vocals, and a chorus that will haunt you long after the song has ended. It's a subtle struggle between letting go and clenching tight, connection and independence. 

It's a vulnerable meditation on growing pains, not merely about the loss of innocence, but about the clarity achieved from the messiness of becoming. Zen, who grew up in Chicago and is now nourished by the laid-back calm of California's aquamarine coastline, invokes bedroom pop's navel-gazing warmth alongside the experimental edges of psychedelia and alt-rap.

As the first track of Revertigo!, "Stick Around" captures more than a sense of musical nostalgia; it asks us to stick around and be present, as time seems to move faster than we think.