Stream: Ai Bendr, ‘I Never Learn’

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Ai Bendr

When we first met Ai Bendr in the summer of 2020, the singer-songwriter was 17, bound for college and the proud author of her first proper single, “Love Me Low.”

Now she’s based in Los Angeles, working in her own studio and releasing music for Interscope.

All of 18, the artist born Chioma Ai Bendors Ilozor (with triple citizenship in Nigeria, Australia and the U.S.) has ridden a year and a half’s worth of momentum, arriving today with the new confessional, “I Never Learn,” a meditation on parting ways with someone and feeling of inadequacy that often leaves behind. Over a deep percussive foundation, it resonates with the warm intimacy and vulnerability typical of her work so far.

“I wrote ‘I Never Learn’ during a time when I was losing a lot of people, and so I was constantly feeling like ‘oof, this again.’” she says. “It was a tough year. It happens though, and I think a lot of people can relate to that.”

Since that debut single, which took off after appearing the HBO series “Euphoria,” and the 2020 follow-up “Runaway,” Bendr signed her label deal and released three songs last year, including “Coffee” and “The Deep,” each memorable in its own nuanced way.

||| Stream: “I Never Learn”

||| Also: Watch the videos for “The Deep” and “Coffee”

||| Previously: “Runaway,” “Love Me Low”