Jensyn’s ‘Trust’ Proves Songwriting Pulls From Lived Experiences & Truth
- Flex Admin
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Not every song a queer artist writes needs to be about queerness to carry realness and a sensibility. ‘Trust’, the closing single in Liverpool artist Jensyn’s debut trilogy, makes that case better than most…
On its surface, the track is about the wreckage of overthinking: the guilt that follows ending a relationship, the people-pleasing instinct that turns a correct decision into an emotional crime scene. Nothing here is explicitly about gender or sexuality. And yet the song could only have been made by someone who has spent a lifetime learning to question their own instincts, to triple-check their feelings against everyone else’s expectations before trusting them.
Jensyn, who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, has spoken before about choosing their artist name during a period of questioning their gender: a small, specific act of self-definition that has quietly underpinned every release since. That same instinct for self-examination runs through ‘Trust’, an alt-rock and prog-inflected track built on a restless, shifting arrangement that mirrors the spiral it describes.
“This is the song that came from overthinking so much that I lost all sense of what I believed was right or wrong.” - Jensyn
It is the third and final entry in a trilogy that has, across six weeks, mapped romantic loss, family grief, and now psychological self-doubt with consistent emotional precision. Jensyn writes, records, and produces everything themselves, a level of creative control that feels of a piece with the broader project: an artist insisting, quietly but completely, on doing things their own way.
With collaborations with Liverpool’s 20 Stories High and Future Yard already underway, Jensyn is not slowing down. Watch this space.
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