Worriers’ You or Someone You Know Is a Guide to the Subtleties of Adulthood
The Brooklyn-based band expresses poignant millennial fears over pop-punk hooks

Brooklyn-based Worriers’ music feels like a CliffsNotes of millennial problems that can sometimes feel a bit too real. If 2017’s Survival Pop was a guide to the exploration and affirmation of gender and other identities in its multiplicity, You or Someone You Know is a sequel that tackles the mirror maze of existence, bad decisions and exhaustion. Lead singer Lauren Denitzio has always treated their music as a diary of some sort, but this time, the listener gets handed the pen to let their lived experience exist in Denitzio’s lyrics.
That’s what makes Worriers so charming: They create unabashedly feel-good pop-punk jams that enhance, not veil, oftentimes heartbreaking experiences. “End Of The World,” You or Someone You Know’s explosive opener, is a grand display of triumphant guitar riffs and heart-stopping drums with Denitzio’s voice barely creeping above a conversational tone to tell the story of building their dream life and the subsequent intrusive thoughts of losing it all in a second. “We could have a space in a house by the sea / Yeah that sure sounds nice, but what about when the hurricane hits?” they sing as the chorus interjects like a wave of regret and guilt. Denitzio expresses poignant millennial fears we never talk about, perfectly expressed in the lyric “How do you plan for the death of a safety net?”
Worriers take us through tumultuous and very unsexy moments of adulthood that can only be fully understood by countless sleepless nights, long showers and awkward social gatherings. “PWR CPLE” tells of charismatic partners behind closed doors, with Denitzio crooning “I love the person you are to everyone else.”