RXRXBBIT: notmyproblem
RXRXBBIT Questions Where Responsibility Begins on “notmyproblem”
by Jack Rush
There is a particular kind of comfort in deciding that someone else’s destruction has nothing to do with you. RXRXBBIT is interested in what happens when that comfort starts to collapse.
On the newly released “notmyproblem,” the Los Angeles artist, songwriter, and producer examines complicity without reducing it to a simple question of guilt or innocence. The song instead occupies the murkier territory where someone can resent another person’s behavior, suffer because of it, and still make choices that allow it to continue.
That ambiguity is precisely what makes “notmyproblem” compelling. RXRXBBIT does not approach the narrator as someone standing safely outside the situation. The narrator is tangled up in it, attempting to maintain enough emotional distance to deny responsibility while repeatedly confronting evidence that suggests otherwise.
RXRXBBIT intentionally wrote from the perspective of several relationship dynamics rather than documenting one isolated experience. Romantic relationships, friendships, addiction, infidelity, and even parasocial relationships can all fit within the framework. That openness makes the central conflict recognizable without dictating exactly how listeners should understand it.
The music video develops an entirely separate visual language around the same internal struggle. Its surreal centerpiece is an androgynous Entity born from the narrator’s cognitive dissonance. Rather than functioning as an enemy, the Entity exists because conflicting beliefs have been allowed to coexist. A recurring black ribbon becomes increasingly consuming, connecting ideas of innocence and girlhood with the accumulating consequences of personal choices.
It is deliberately uncomfortable territory for a pop song. RXRXBBIT is less interested in delivering a moral than examining the stories people construct when acknowledging their own participation would require them to change.
“notmyproblem” ultimately leaves its title sounding less like an assertion than something the narrator is desperately trying to believe.
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