Joy Again — Looking Out for You

I guess I should stop looking out for you, like I always do
When will you start looking out for me, too
Instead of leaving me staring at my shoes?
It's just the way you're glancing at me

A decade-old bedroom-pop sketch from a Philadelphia band is broadly charting today, tracked across 112 country and platform charts after an 84-day quiet stretch. Written by Sachi DiSerafino about a one-sided infatuation — "a girl I fell head over heels in love with," he told The FADER, "she would never bat an eyelash at me" — the track pairs jangling barred-chord guitar with a delivery that stays deliberately unpolished. That plainness is the appeal: unrequited-love shorthand delivered without a single ounce of gloss. Joy Again have never been a chart act in the conventional sense, which makes the song's durability on streaming its defining trait. It resurfaces in waves, and this is another one.

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