The most absurd paradox in the world – and one that I happily wield as a weapon for my own rhetorical advantage on a daily basis – is the notion of common sense. On a granular level, there is nothing truly more ridiculous than the idea of ​​an unshakably correct, morally impartial understanding of the world that most people, if pressed, would agree with. However – Isn’t it just so much fun to pretend? If someone behaves in a way that I find strange – it is not easy common sense that they are wrong? Shouldn’t all– at least everyone who is worth listening to – will you support me? Common sense is my best friend because it is always there My Page.

Okay, Kaya seems to agree. On the songwriting luminary’s latest single, “Check Your Face,” she intones, “When common sense and I dance, it makes for a fun conversation/When me and common sense dance, it makes for a sweetheart relationship.” The singer, brooding and thoughtful and glamorous as ever, flirts with common sense throughout the groovy track, as if laughter is bubbling in a transparent, melodic bubble: “Come on, common sense, I’m a fool! I can’t move without you.”

The single is the third from the singer’s upcoming LP, Oh my God – that’s so me, is out September 6th and is accompanied by a beautiful stop-motion music video directed by Lou Beauchard. Alongside previous singles – the snappy and bouncy “The Groke” and the bony and beautiful “Undulation Days” – Okay Kaya continues to demonstrate her robust, evocative lyrical strength and announces a project that promises space and hope.

The Norwegian-American singer wrote the self-described “slacker disco song” during a frigid winter. “If you’re going to dance alone in your basement,” she says, “you might as well put a song and a dance together.” And it does – who better to entwine yourself with in the frenzied loneliness of winter, who better to sling your limbs around lazily with than your own self-righteousness? In the depths of your own delusions, you should look at yourself from the outside – split your skull in half, as Beauchard so beautifully puts it – and giggle at your own strangeness. After all, as Clive James says, “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, they just move at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”