I Like Myself (Most Of The Time) Lyrics - K.Flay

Song Facts:

• Genre: Alternative/Indie


• Featured on: Invincible (TV Series) Soundtrack


• Lyricist: Kristine Flaherty (K.Flay)

Annotations and Meaning:

"Most of the Time I Like Myself," by K. Flay, is a candid take on self-acceptance, the pressures of society, and how one feels real against a world of perfection, with a very pleasing honesty. It is within the song that this territory of tension between self-love and self-doubt is vetted, pointing candidly toward those moments of insecurity or triumph that, more often than not, define the human experience.
The opening lines, in general, express a felt need for recognition, beauty, and significance that points out how people long to make some sort of difference in this world from their physical attractiveness, impact on those around him, or even some kind of legacy. However, K. Flay appropriates the narration from these extrinsic validations into an internal monologue of self-acceptance that points to the duty of not comparing against possible lives unlived but telling her tale with all the creativity and its journey.

The arrogant chorus of the song goes very central, with her confessing through that she loves herself in a world where many times, being self-confident is confused with arrogance. The rhetorical question "Is that a crime?" raises a scandal of the very possibility of appreciation and at the same time implies that satisfaction with oneself is something close to being insurgent and almost unconventional.

K.Flay encapsulates the sham happiness most people put up on social media with her lyrics, justifying such displays as being insincere but, on the other hand, urging individuals to live for the day and take from it their happiness from real, however small, but true aspects of life. This is brought out by the recognition of a unique flaw in the person and the consciously made effort to focus on positivity rather than dwell on the perceived drawbacks.

The song also reached into moments of self-doubt in how a person would, in one way or another, build for himself or herself inner strength to be able to go on through creativity, substances, or isolation. The admissions of vulnerability and imperfection are thrown into sharp relief against the all-is-fine message of self-liking by the chorus, evidencing a nuanced picture of self-esteem that waxes and wanes with the vicissitudes of life.