Fin Argus remembers the magazines, hidden under the bed like other boys his age. But the feeling was different. Fin was not looking at the women with desire but with longing: quiet, unspoken. A yearning that had no name then, one that would later take shape in “Playboy 1973,” a song from the forthcoming album “Running with Scissors.”
Acoustic and electric guitars intertwine with strings that seem to hold their breath. Fin’s voice moves gently, yet carries weight. The lyrics are surreal, almost childlike in their imagination, yet land with recognition. “Wouldn’t it be so sweet if I cut up my body and made a collage of a girl?” and “I’m a bunny in a boy’s world” read less like metaphors than like a fantastic blueprint.
The track resists resolution, perhaps to preserve its wonder and intimacy. It lingers between fantasy and reality, where identity is still in the process of taking shape. There’s no arc, no transformation, only the quiet ache of wanting to become what Fin once idealised.
Fin’s music often leans into world-building, but this song feels closer to the skin. Raised in Illinois, Fin Argus turned to songwriting as a way to make space, a place to be unfiltered. “Playboy 1973” carries that sense of escape yet feels grounded. The production is whimsical, but the emotion never evades. It’s a love song, though its object of affection is an imagined version of the self that Fin embraces.
The video, released with the track, mirrors its tone, dreamlike but never distant, thanks to vintage paper cut-out textures. It belongs to the same world Fin has been building, where fantasy and truth sit side by side, and longing is treated with care.
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