# ME. Share Anthemic 2nd Single “GROWN MAN”

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/me-2nd-single-grown-man/
- Published: 2026-06-18T16:00:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### **ME.**⏎ **Shares Introspective Second Single“󠀁[GROWN MAN](https://us.list-manage.com/RLvVCD7J2G4?e=615f2b8493&c2id=fe32c1ddbd60eeaebb1f350fafcd06fb)󠁿” Out Now

#### **Raw and Unfiltered Debut Album ⏎ _ALL GOOD THINGS_ out July 24

#### **New Project from former founding members of Taking Back Sunday Mark O’Connell and Eddie Reyes**

**JUNE 16, 2026 [New York, NY] —**“The song isn’t just about love. It’s about trust.
It’s about second chances. It’s about finding someone who believes in you when you’ve
forgotten how to believe in yourself,” says drummer **Mark O’Connell** of **ME.**
about their second single “**Grown Man**” from their debut _**ALL GOOD THINGS**_(
independently released on **July 24, 2026**).

“It’s a song about finding someone who makes you want to put your guard down again.
Someone who reminds you that being strong isn’t about building walls. It’s about
having the courage to stay open after life has given you every reason to close down.”

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**ME.**
photo credit: Amber Patrick

The new track is a follow-up to their first single “[**Special**](https://us.list-manage.com/wr9lptgsB6q?e=615f2b8493&c2id=fe32c1ddbd60eeaebb1f350fafcd06fb)”
that shows another side of the band. Anthemic and passionate, “Grown Man” finds 
the band cementing their foothold into alt-rock’s foundation, establishing them 
as a new force in the music world. Together with guitarist **Eddie Reyes** (both
of whom are former members of **Taking Back Sunday**), ME. presents a new beginning
with a new sound and musical outlook for them. With the additions of vocalist **
Mike Jansen** and bassist **Neal Amiruddin**, ME. opens a whole new book. “We want
to share this with the world and go back to having fun again.”

As with most of the music for _All Good Things_, “Grown Man” began with the instrumentals
between Reyes and O’Connell. Learning that the alchemy they had in their former 
band was still intact, the passion and emotion pours through their guitar and drum
parts that explode in technicolor. “Grown Man,” in particular, started out with 
inspiration Reyes found within his daughter.

“For me personally, the idea came from hearing my daughter vocalizing in her room,”
he explains. “I paired it with riffs I had floating around in my head. I also knew
just getting together alone in a room with Mark, we were going to create some fucking
good music, I want listeners to know that we’ve been through a lot, all of us respectfully,
and it’s just a new, fresh breath of air in our lives.”

Once the musical bed was ready, Jansen added his lyrical magic, which he too drew
from personal experience. “When I wrote this, I had not met anyone in the band. 
I was at home in Chicago. Married around a month at that point, I wrote a song about
falling in love and the decision to ask someone to spend the rest of their life 
with me. It’s scary and beautiful.”

Reflecting on the move through his own personal experience in relationships, O’Connell’s
new start to trust in love  (as well as O’Connell and Reyes’ ability to write together
again), Jansen was the puzzle piece needed to lyrically and vocally complete the
new single. “In a lot of ways, ‘Grown Man’ is what the whole album is about – choosing
love and fighting for it by fighting for yourself,” Jansen adds.

“The interesting thing is that Mike didn’t change the direction at all,” O’Connell
says. “He somehow found exactly what was already living inside the song and amplified
it.”

ME. - "Grown Man" (Official Lyric Video)

[⌊ME. - "Grown Man" (Official Lyric Video)⌉⌊ME. - "Grown Man"(
Official Lyric Video)⌉
Watch this video on YouTube

**ME. – “Grown Man”**
**[DSP](https://found.ee/GrownMan-1)****[YouTube Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll2bScIx-ps)**

Both emancipated from their previous shared band experience, Reyes and O’Connell’s
reconnection represents a conscious decision to build something entirely fresh with
a different divergence. “It wasn’t about timing in the industry sense,” O’Connell
explains. “It was about timing as people. We’re not trying to recreate anything.
We’ve already done that. This was about building something that works for who we
are now.”

“We are not the same guys we were 25 years ago,” Reyes adds. “ME. is about growth.
It’s about creating something new.”

[⌊ME.⌉⌊ME.⌉[

ALL GOOD THINGS

[[**_ALL GOOD THINGS_**

**Tracklist:**

1. An Introduction
2. Bloodsport3. [Grown Man](https://us.list-manage.com/WexUdeoVQSi?e=615f2b8493&c2id=fe32c1ddbd60eeaebb1f350fafcd06fb)
4. [Special](https://us.list-manage.com/5ISHFra3yeo?e=615f2b8493&c2id=fe32c1ddbd60eeaebb1f350fafcd06fb)
5. Violent People6. Nuzzo7. Big Smiles8. Sun Poison9. Soap Bar10. The Astronaut 
Show11. This Is What It Feels Like To Be Normal

_**All Good Things**_ is an album that feels less like a collection of songs and
more like a progression—moving through conflict, vulnerability, and, ultimately,
a form of acceptance. The album title reflects that journey. While the album title
nods to the familiar phrase, the band reframes it as something more expansive: not
an ending, but what comes after. What gets rebuilt when everything familiar falls
apart.

“At its core, _All Good Things_ is about survival, reinvention, and choosing to 
move forward,” the band shares. “Some things end, but that doesn’t mean the story
is over,” Jansen adds. “This album is very real for me. I’m not living in a feeling
of extreme internal conflict anymore, but I think a lot of us go through or eventually
have to give ourselves some hard talks about reality. Life is short. Make positive
change wherever you can. Start with yourself and move on from there.” 

“Eddie and I have been writing songs together for a very long time,” concludes O’Connell.“
I genuinely believe these are some of the best songs we’ve ever written. But great
songs alone don’t make a record. You need people who believe in each other. More
than anything, I want people to know that this is the album Eddie and I deserved
to make, but we couldn’t have done it alone.”

**ME.** is **Eddie Reyes** (_guitar_), **Mark O’Connell** (_drums_), **Mike Jansen**(
_guitar/vocals_), and **Neal Amiruddin** (_bass_). Their second single “[**Grown Man**](https://us.list-manage.com/8gXnxCZjNXp?e=615f2b8493&c2id=fe32c1ddbd60eeaebb1f350fafcd06fb)”
is out now. _**ALL GOOD THINGS**_ will be released independently on **July 24**,**
2026**. Album pre-orders available now [**here**](https://us.list-manage.com/94Glc1nlieu?e=615f2b8493&c2id=fe32c1ddbd60eeaebb1f350fafcd06fb).

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