DOZENZ’s Be Someone is a meditative exploration of a person’s inner conflict with themselves and others, manifesting both in expectation and identity. Every song in the album relates to others in the endless cycle of emotions the narrator faces, creating a more transcending story of defiance, change, and acceptance. Throughout the album, Saleh Hamed and Ahmed Jamali depict the struggle of accepting reality with graciously strong words, a central theme of never letting go or permanently holding on rests within.

At the core of Be Someone rests the desire for genuine affirmation battling with the pursuit of being “ripped apart”. The constant urge of “being someone” is less about freedom and more about a dubious concoction of trauma, love, and social chaos that most people go through. There seems to be a fight with expectation that an artist seems to wrestle with self-integrity, trying to put forth an art piece that is the only thing left after the ordeal reality. Through any medium, whether it’s self-confrontation, a chaotic relationship, or staring down the void, the persistent reminder is clarion clear: identity isn’t something that one gets, it is forged, dismantled, and reinforced.

There is a distinctive back and forth between strength and surrender within the lyrics of the album. DOZENZ usually frames emotional vulnerability as both peril and salvation. Love especially is not portrayed as a singular experience, but rather a spectrum: it is chemical, chaotic, redemptive, and destructive. The realization that one does not equal understanding, and understanding does not equate to being healed, permeates the lyrics. This is most pronounced in the oscillation between control and collapse. There are decisive lines that are softened by lack of confidence, and statements of surrender to weakness.

The album creates an apparent gap between the outside and inner self. The perceptive holds an emotional claustrophobia that surfaces in the verses—the need to escape categorization, to figure out pain without being imprisoned by it. There is a continuous need to move forward, to emerge from the rubble. “Pick yourself up”, “I feel like it’s going to be alright,” reveal some hope that even when everything comes crashing down there is still value in motion.

The album also incorporates a sense of time and endings. Numerous lyrics grapple with time—wasted, lost, or desperately wished for. There’s a feeling that a moment is never enough, the past is populated with specters, and the present is vague possibility. DOZENZ navigates this complexity with an ardent voice that is often desperate, often fierce, never empty. The words of one who has been scorched, yet stands—scarred, muted, but unbowed.

A captivating lyrical theme across Be Someone is the silence dividing people—the concept that communication conflicts with the surge of feeling. DOZENZ does not romanticize love; they portray it as messy, often miscommunicated, better expressed through silence, surrender, or sensation instead of words. This theme adds texture to the emotional canvas of the album, and suggests that vulnerability is not always loud—it sometimes lurks in stillness.

In all, the album Be Someone captures an experience that is not solely emotional reflection, how it interrogates the very emotion itself. It is an album that explores the process of becoming rather than being. Each word is laced with profound truths interweaving hope and loss. Neat conclusions are not offered by DOZENZ, yet something more significant resides within that; they allow listeners to deeply contemplate and explore.