Marcel Winatschek

Dreamin’

Adi Ulmansky. That name already sounds cool. She keeps it short to just Adi anyway, which is the right call. Guarantee some German athletic brand is already trying to figure out how to collab with her, inevitable really, but that’s beside the point.

Her new song is Dreamin’. It’s about the stuff people usually won’t talk about—depression, the meds that come with it, all those fragile and raw and honest things. She does it without losing the bite, keeps the sarcasm and humor woven through it, lets it all sit together without contradiction.

What gets me is that she’s visibly perpetually high, and it just doesn’t read as a problem or a contradiction. If anything, the drugs are clearly helping her make better music. Which isn’t news—we’ve known that forever—but apparently it’s still worth saying.