Our last BopShop of the year is dedicated to bops of the decade that should’ve been bigger
, finally arrived in 2016 to immediate fanfare. It was then quickly forgotten, which is a real shame considering"Because I'm Me" is the kind of joyous, life-affirming track that we all needed during the back half of the decade. The song's music video excellently suits the anthem to self-love in the face of rejection, starring an adorable kid singing his heart to an MTA worker in a Bronx subway station when a brass band spontaneously appears to back him up.
Watching him dance to Sonny Cheeba's verses, I remember exactly where and when I was when first saw this, which might explain why more people don't know it. Sure, it would be conspiratorial, maybe even crazy, to wholly blame the 2016 presidential election that occurred less than two weeks after the video premiered for people not paying much attention to it. But it certainly didn't help. —There was a time, in early 2016, when I was convinced this song would save the world.
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