Learning Myself
Learning Myself is the second album by Wagner Fox — a return to the messy, hilarious, painful, and unforgettable years between school hallways and early adulthood.
Challenge
To revisit memories that never fully healed, revive the kid I was between 1999 and 2010, and turn embarrassment, humor, longing, and young heartbreak into music. This album wasn’t about understanding my past — it was about honoring it with songs that were lost in notes.
These memories, spanning from the late 90s to the early 2010s were never really gone.
They lived inside old school corridors, cheap cologne, dial-up internet, scribbled notebooks, teenage crushes, forbidden thoughts, and all the things we felt before we even knew how to name them.
They weren’t lost.
They were simply waiting for the moment I’d be brave (and stupid) enough to look back and turn them into music.
Revisiting these stories wasn’t simple.
Every melody, every lyric, pulls me back into the kid I used to be… clueless, hormonal, loud, stupid, in love with the wrong people, and constantly trying to figure myself out.
Some memories are funny, some embarrassing, some still sting a little.
But bringing them back meant stepping into those halls, those nights, those mistakes… and letting them speak again.
Through the years, a strange and beautiful pattern started to form.
Learning Myself carries pieces of everything that raised me musically: the raw punch of Offspring, the melodic richness of ELO, the dramatic flair of Barry Manilow, the timeless foundation of The Beatles, the theatrical power of Queen, the restless energy of Green Day, and the emotional depth of Radiohead.
All of it mixed with the chaos of growing up — school jokes, heartbreaks, nights alone with a guitar, and the soundtrack of a generation spinning through headphones on the bus ride home.
This album is where my sound truly started to take shape:
a messy, honest blend of everything I loved, everything I felt, and everything I was becoming.
The lyrics in Learning Myself capture the raw, stupid, beautiful chaos of growing up.
Each song comes from a different moment between school desks, late-night thoughts, teenage crushes, and all the mistakes that shaped me.
Some tracks are funny, some nostalgic, some painfully honest but every one of them carries a memory I can still feel.
Listening to this album is like flipping through old notebooks, secret pages, and moments I never thought I’d share.
