The 23-year-old talks to The Daily Beast about working through mental health struggles, reuniting with Tyler, the Creator, and finding bliss in restraint on his fourth album
.” It was also around that time that he shared he was no longer with his girlfriend of five years, the musician Thea Morgan-Murrell.
What the new album may lack in idiomatic lyrics, it makes up for with Rex’s reliably stunning musicianship; together, he and Benny produced, arranged, and co-wrote every song on the album.
Perhaps that’s what makes the addition of Tyler, the Creator, such a fresh-sounding voice of reason on the album; he’s like the older, wiser sage in Rex’s life. The rapper lends a verse to “Open a Window,” marking a long-awaited reunion for the two friends after Rex appeared on Tyler’s“That’s my guy. He is definitely someone who doesn’t mind what people think so much.
That’s an ethos Rex is still striving for, and it bleeds into the very concept and even the title of the album, which is a double entendre of sorts. On the one hand, “Who cares?” can be read as a flippant, shrug-off response to critics and haters. On the other hand, it’s a question Rex genuinely wants the answer to—he cares deeply about his music, and he wants to know if it resonates with anyone. He cares, but he doesn’t want to—one of the most universal contradictions a person can feel.
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