Stream: Paper Idol, ‘I’m Fantastic’
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Ever had one of those days when you’re wrapped up in your own little world, doing fine, and somebody — a partner, a parent, a boss — keeps asking you, “What’s wrong?”
Paper Idol’s wry new single “I’m Fantastic” is for you.
Slip-sliding from a playful piano track into a dance banger, “I’m Fantastic” is the first single from Paper Idol’s “Money for Flowers” EP, coming out this spring. It’s the latest dose of indie audacity from Wisconsin native Matan Koplin-Green — aka Matan KG — who earned a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and worked overseas before moving to L.A. to make music.
The songwriter says the new single was inspired by his mother’s begging him to play outside as a child. “I grew up in Wisconsin, and in the precious few hot summer months it was a family sin to stay indoors on the weekends,” he says. “In third grade, I wanted to do nothing more than play Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 on my gamecube. Like many other kids in the ’00s, I hated the ‘Get some fresh air!’ plea from my parents, so I wrote this protest song in honor of my younger self.”
||| Stream: “I’m Fantastic”
||| Previously: “Still So Alive”
[…] “I’m Fantastic,” declared Paper Idol (aka Matan Koplin-Green) in his first single of 2020. That was back in February, and little did he know. The Wisconsin native followed that with some rubbery remixes of his 2019 single “Feel Real Pretty” before early this month unveiling the title track of his forthcoming EP, “Money for Flowers.” Like his earlier releases, it’s a dose of bright, infectious insouciance with a sense of humor. “I wrote ‘Money For Flowers’ at a particularly broke time in my life,” the songwriter says. “I had just visited a girlfriend’s parents and promised that I would send them flowers as a thank-you; I remember thinking, ‘I don’t even have money for flowers.’ As a whole, the song is basically about impulsivity and fickleness in relationships. I did end up buying the flowers, by the way.” (Oh, and there are also these little blasts he’s sent out from quarantine.) […]