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Abdullah Siddiqui has never been afraid to poke at the edges of pop music, and with his latest single, ‘I Don’t Want To Listen To Your Bad Music’, he’s twisting the knife.

The track is a sleek, shadowy statement from one of Pakistan’s most innovative young producers, drenched in dark pop textures that recall Billie Eilish’s ‘Bad Guy’ era.

At its core, the song scoffs at mediocrity. Laced with sharp, self-aware humour, the track dissects the state of mainstream pop with precision. “Where’d your pain go, you clearly don’t use it, baby” is a knockout line — half insult, half lament — taking aim at a generation of artists content with gloss over grit. It’s the kind of lyric that reminds you why Siddiqui’s work stands apart.

Musically, the track thrives on contradiction. Its hook is pristine and radio-ready, but the production hums with unease, complete with distorted baselines and industrial pulses bubbling under the surface. By the outro, that tension explodes into a full-on sonic breakdown, with dubstep-inspired grit and Nine Inch Nails–esque noise dragging the listener into a darker, more chaotic headspace.

It’s pop music’s polished mirror shattering in slow motion.

Even the video is a minimalist loop of Siddiqui unscrewing and breaking a light bulb. It feels loaded with symbolism. Light, after all, is what reveals, and here he’s literally dismantling it, rejecting clarity in favour of creative destruction. For a song about tuning out the noise, it’s a striking visual metaphor for starting fresh, and maybe, burning the old system down.

With ‘I Don’t Want To Listen To Your Bad Music’, Siddiqui is outsmarting the pop machine while crafting something catchy, confrontational, and unapologetically weird.