B-Side Guys

The questions don’t expect answers here. KRAMON’s “Change” featuring Meredith Adelaide and Josh Kramon treats transformation as both universal law and personal betrayal, cycling through acceptance and accusation without ever reconciling the two. It’s the standout track from the album <evolutions>, and the first to receive video treatment—directed by Adelaide herself, who also handles lead vocals with a kind of measured melancholy that refuses to tip into despair.

The production sits comfortably in dream pop territory without getting too hazy, maintaining enough clarity for the lyrics’ contradictions to land. There’s something almost meditative about walking streets at night alone, feeling good precisely because there’s no hurry, no worry—and then the jarring shift into confronting someone else’s change, demanding to know why they did it when the song has already established that everyone has to. It’s the logic of grief: knowing something intellectually doesn’t make it hurt less when it happens to you.

The imagery moves through dislocation—walking into unknown places, finding strangers at your door, losing your bed, standing in rain trying to remember what was said. These feel less like specific memories and more like the emotional residue of being left behind by someone’s transformation. Adelaide’s performance never oversells the emotion, letting the repetition of “everybody change” accumulate weight through insistence rather than volume.

What grounds the existential drift is the acknowledgment that all of this existed before arrival and will continue after death—a recognition that personal change happens within much larger cycles that don’t care about individual pain. The video, shot at Studios 60 with Adelaide directing alongside executive producer Josh Kramon, reinforces this through choreography by Liv Mai that visualizes transformation without trying to make it comforting.

For a project exploring evolutions, “Change” understands that acceptance doesn’t mean understanding, and that asking “why did you change?” remains valid even when you know the answer is simply: everybody does.