pigbaby Crying in Burger King (2024)
Fun fact: The Whopper is older than the Big Mac. Now that we have your attention, let's talk about pigbaby.
What do we know about the masked Irish rapper? An established artist in other mediums, pigbaby is no stranger to engaging with people in his other work. But in his music, he strips things back, delving into depression, suicide and existential dread, all while wearing a pig costume. The half-pig, half-manbaby disguise is both smokescreen and confession, allowing him to be brutally honest while hiding in plain sight.
Blending illbient soundscapes with dark humor and irony, pigbaby crafts a sonic world full of fast-food metaphors and raw emotion on "Crying in Burger King", a standout from his debut album i don't care if anyone listens to this shit once you do. While the titles may seem absurd, his delivery is anything but. The track features somber keys from John Keek, serves up a whimsical yet deeply melancholic reflection on lost love, the emptiness of modern life and the strange poetry of a global fast-food supply chain.
“And I can't even eat these curly fries / cause baby I'm dead inside / why don't you just come back to me / and we can drive far away right out to the sea.”
The song's latter half dissolves into an ambient haze of reverb and twitching electronics—a hypnotic freefall into pigbaby’s absurd, aching world.
Half man, half pig, half baby: pigbaby exists in the liminal space between satire and sincerity. The mask may be a front, but the music is very real.
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