B-Side Guys

There’s a particular cruelty to how memory edits our past, airbrushing away the reasons we left while amplifying every moment that made us want to stay. Noah Mroueh understands this betrayal intimately, crafting a sonic environment on “Still In Love” that mirrors the disorienting experience of being haunted by someone who’s already become a ghost.

The track opens with shimmering synths that feel deliberately unstable, wavering between clarity and distortion like a signal from another dimension. This isn’t accidental—Mroueh has built an entire architecture around emotional ambiguity, where dream pop textures dissolve into alt-R&B inflections before crystallizing into something approaching psychedelia. The production refuses to settle, much like the narrator’s emotional state, creating a listening experience that feels both grounded and weightless.

Mroueh’s vocals navigate this terrain with remarkable precision, embodying the contradiction he describes as being “obsessed but detached.” His delivery carries the exhaustion of someone who’s spent too long analyzing their own feelings, yet can’t resist diving deeper into the wreckage. The lyrics operate like fragments of overheard conversations with oneself, capturing the internal monologue of someone trapped in love’s rearview mirror.

What elevates “Still In Love” beyond typical breakup territory is its acknowledgment of love’s fictional qualities. Mroueh suggests we might be mourning relationships with people who never fully existed outside our projection, asking whether the person we’re missing was ever really there. It’s a devastating proposition wrapped in the kind of production that makes devastation feel almost beautiful.

The song’s genre-fluid approach serves its thematic content perfectly—when you’re stuck between holding on and letting go, why should the music commit to any single identity? This refusal to be categorized becomes “Still In Love’s” greatest strength, creating space for listeners to project their own emotional contradictions onto its shifting sonic landscape. The result feels less like a song about being stuck than an invitation to examine why we choose to remain there.