Wyn Starks has built a career on big moments, the AGT audition heard round the internet, the Celine Dion connection, the anthem sung out at NBA arenas and MLB stadiums. But “Coco” isn’t built for a jumbotron. It’s built for a front porch, a kitchen table, a mirror. And that’s exactly why it works.
The track leans into a percussive, Afro-soul pulse that never rushes itself. Where a lot of pop records are engineered to hit their chorus as fast as possible, Starks lets “Coco” unfold at its own pace, verses that read almost like spoken affirmations before the song opens up into something closer to a communal chant. By the time the “ooh lele” refrain rolls around, it’s less a hook than an invitation.
Thematically, the song sits at an interesting intersection: it’s a lullaby and a rallying cry at the same time. There’s language of storms, of rain, of hard ground, the kind of imagery that usually signals a sad song, but Starks keeps flipping it toward hope. Every hardship in the lyric gets repurposed as proof of strength rather than proof of suffering. It’s a neat trick, emotionally, and one that a lot of “resilience anthems” fumble by leaning too hard into either despair or empty positivity. “Coco” finds the middle ground and stays there.
By the final chorus, “Coco” isn’t asking you to dance so much as it’s asking you to remember something you already knew about yourself and just needed reminding of.