INJI Turns Her Quarter-Life Crisis into Dance-Pop Album ‘SUPERLAME’
The Turkish-born artist spins the confusing crash-outs of young adulthood into liberating dance floor-ready cuts.
Perhaps you know INJI from her viral TikToks, where she’d share in-house dance productions and cheeky remixes like her recent flip of Demi Lovato’s ‘Here All Night’, which has been making the rounds across NYC clubs. But before all that, the Turkish-born artist had been quietly refining her sound, releasing a string of infectious dance-pop singles that racked up over 3 million streams on Spotify, all while juggling life as a full-time corporate girlie.
Her latest project, ‘Superlame’, a 12-track mixtape that fully embraces her flirty, chaotic pop persona, plays out as a high-octane, femme-fatale anthem for her post–corporate crash-out moment, something many twenty-somethings can relate to. INJI expands her self-coined “recession pop” sound into brat-core territory, fusing rave rhythms with confessional, unapologetic lyricism and heavily auto-tuned vocals.
The opening track, ‘Teen Angst’, the first she wrote after quitting her job, is a loud, carefree dance cut that captures the restless energy of one’s mid-20s through punchy drops and dramatic tempo shifts. That same manic energy pulses through the mixtape, an exhilarating ride across dubstep, house, techno, bass, and Jersey club influences.
Some of the highlights on the album include ‘Good Time Girl’, which boasts stabs and kicks reminiscent of Charli XCX’s ‘Club Classics’, while ‘Bodega’ feels like INJI’s hot take on the 360-party girl aesthetics, a tongue-in-cheek ode to reckless nights out that make hangovers sound glamorous.
Throughout ‘Superlame’, INJI spins the confusing crash-outs of young adulthood life into a liberating, heart-pumping, dancefloor-ready experience. It’s a messy, fun, and refreshingly self-aware record that doesn't take life too seriously.
