2020 Plec Picks act Smoothboi Ezra is back with their third single of 2020 ‘My Own Person’.

“I don’t know what a song means when I’m writing it. I don’t make a plan. I find myself basically doing a brain dump,” Smoothboi Ezra says of their songwriting process.

“I wrote this song when I was 16. I had one or two outfits I would interchange and I wore the same grubby pair of shoes every day. They were replicas of a previous grubby pair I wore when I was 14 and 15.  The song is about not being happy but not being able to do anything about it.”  

“When I finish a song I let go of it, it’s not mine any more and I forget it. A lot of the time I’ll have to teach myself the song again before a live show,” explains the 18-year-old songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from Greystones with a remarkably mature attitude.

‘My Own Person’ is the first track from a collection of new songs set to be released in the coming months, ahead of what is sure to be a phenomenally exciting 2021 for Ezra. ‘My Own Person’ is accompanied by the release of a live performance video directed by Nicholas O’Donnell.

Listen to the studio version of the track below the video. Read our 2020 Plec Picks feature on Smoothboi Ezra here.

https://youtu.be/xbolCc4tjfk

Smoothboi Ezra plays The Workman’s Dublin on May 6th 2021. Tickets €15.50 on sale here