At Jai Paul’s first performance in New York City last night, the scale of a collective online memory came into focus.
emerged on Myspace with “BTSU,” a brooding, ambient hymn for a generation. “I know I’ve been gone a long time,” he sings on the chorus. “I’m back, and I want what is mine.” The posturing feels more spiritual than literal. Paul’s music seemed to come from somewhere between the past and the future. Even today, attempting to explain the song’s impact almost feels like recounting a dream.
of “BTSTU” to her SoundCloud page as part of a remix contest that would result in Beyoncé sampling the track on “End of Time” from her album. This was all before Paul even released a full EP. Earlier this month, more than a decade after its release, he performed the track for the first time in front of an audience, atPaul followed “BTSU” with “Jasmine,” formally released in 2012 by XL Records. Then, a trove of music amounting to Paul’s debut appeared on Bandcamp.
From there, the album existed in infamy. Paul would exit the public eye for several years, and all traces of the leak would quietly vanish from the web. But the myth would only grow. The music on the project remains unlike anything that came before it or since, a kind of extraterrestrial transmission. Paul’s vocals, breezily undulating between registers, infused a disarming honesty that belied the organized sonic chaos surrounding it.
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