Rightfield – Boys Don’t Cry (feat. JordyPurp)
“Nuskool vibes that combine genres creating their own sound in the process. This is fresh no doubt about it. Plenty of bass to shake us up and a beat that could work on a dancefloor. Cool rhymes that are brought together by a crisp chorus. ”
-Nagamag.com
"Boys Don’t Cry (feat. JordyPurp)" is the third single off of Rightfield’s upcoming sophomore album, and it’s special in more ways than one. This big, hype, gritty earworm not only features hip-hop-meets-punk-pop wordsmith JordyPurp – a fellow genre-bending rising star, and collaborator of artists like As It Is, set it off, and FEVER 333 – who absolutely crushes his emotional verse, but it also touches on a heavier perspective lyrically than listeners are accustomed to hearing from Rightfield. It’s about growing up in the south, around a certain type of show-no-emotion hyper-masculinity, where you have to be everything your dad wants you to be. The theme throughout the track centers on the toxicity of a “rub some dirt in it” mentality, but despite its loaded lyrics, the track is sonically fun, loud, and amped all the way up – sure to get Rightfield fans moshing the night away.
From Rightfield: "'Boys Don’t Cry' is about us growing up in the south around a certain type of show no emotion hyper-masculinity where we had to be everything our dads wanted us to be. When I was nine I broke two of my fingers at school but we had a baseball tournament the next day and my dad was the coach so he asked me if I was good to still play the tournament and of course, I said yes instead of getting my fingers fixed. To this day I don’t have use of one of my fingers because I thought the right thing to do was “rub in the dirt” and move on."
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS:
- Produced by Zach Jones (Lil Lotus, FEVER 333, Nova Twins, Scene Queen, As It Is, Oliver Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon)
- 6M+ total streams across all Rightfield songs
- Sold out shows in Austin, Dallas, College Station, TX & Fayetteville, AR in 2021. In Austin, a second night was added, which sold out in less than 24 hours
- Direct support for Smallpools (2021) and joan. (ending March 17 2022) on regional dates
- This past fall (2021), completed a national tour with The Orphan The Poet and Friday Pilots Club
- Completed a western run with The Unlikely Candidates in summer of 2021
- Completed a headlining Texas tour in October of 2021 that was sold out
- Broke Top 50 at Alternative Radio in the summer of 2021
Reviewed by Nagamag on July 3, 2022