Oscar Eriyal isn’t predicting the future of music—he’s bending time itself, pulling at seams where styles should clash, but somehow don’t. On “VENUS,” his latest (and possibly boldest?) single, oscillating between alternative R&B and his usual pop-Latin playground, Eriyal creates an entirely new kind of atmosphere. It’s as if you walked into a neon-lit room, but the walls are breathing, softly.
Risk? Please. Eriyal eats risks for breakfast, cracks them like eggs into a skillet made of synthesizers and syncopated drums. Going all-in on the genre-fluid experiment that this is, he doesn’t just dip his toes in the R&B waters—he dives headfirst, fully clothed, no towel in sight. The results are disorienting in the most infectious way possible. It’s this embrace of ambiguity and uncertainty that you can feel in every chord. And let’s be honest—when’s the last time a pop singer did anything this unapologetic with their music?
Thematically, “VENUS” is less commentary, more invitation. It’s not about telling you how to live your life; it’s about showing you what happens when you don’t follow the script. Uncertainty slinks through the production, as if both listener and artist wander a new sonic landscape, unsure of where the next turn will take them. But isn’t that the beauty of it? The chorus floats in with an almost invisible confidence, inviting you to let go, to embrace the “What if?” And isn’t the world built on those? Eriyal’s giving us a sonic shrug here: “Why not, right?”
Pushing creative boundaries is baked into the DNA of this track, as it brushes past genre rules and laughs at linguistic borders—English and Spanish mix freely like they’ve known each other all along.
“VENUS” doesn’t beg for your approval. It just asks, quietly: Are you ready to jump into the unknown?
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