Steve Lacy’s “Static” (2022) opens his album *Gemini Rights* with dreamy falsetto and soulful guitar, immediately drawing listeners into his introspective world. The lyrics grapple with loneliness and longing (“If I could see through walls, I could see you faking…”), and a snippet of the song even went viral on TikTok for its hypnotic melody. “Static,” though not a single, charted on Billboard’s Hot R&B Songs chart and set the stage for Lacy’s breakthrough year – establishing the melancholic, alternative R&B vibe that “Bad Habit” would later bring to the masses.