pop-rock duo Rightfield have released their new single, “Boys Don’t Cry” featuring hip-hop-meets-punk-pop wordsmith and fellow rising star JordyPurp. The track is taken from the duo’s – comprised of Jack Blocker and Reed Hoelscher – highly anticipated sophomore album, out later this year. Listen to it now below.
“This song is about us growing up in the south around a certain type of show no emotion hyper-masculinity where we had to be everything our dads wanted us to be,” shares Hoelscher.
“When I was nine, I broke two of my fingers at school, but we had a baseball tournament the next day and my dad was the coach, so he asked me if I was good to still play the tournament and of course, I said yes instead of getting my fingers fixed. To this day I don’t have use of one of my fingers because I thought the right thing to do was ‘rub it in the dirt’ and move on.”
On the collaboration with JordyPurp, Quadio Records vice president, Abir Hossain, shares that “JordyPurp is the definition of a genre-bending – or genreless – artist. With Rightfield exploring new sounds and territory on this upcoming album, he seemed like a perfect fit. And he really did play an integral role in bringing the song to life. We knew it would be special all along – from the first demo that came out of a co-write with Little Hurt, to the production touches Zach Jones and Reed [Hoelscher] put on it.”