"Role Models" is a song by American indie pop band AJR, appearing on the 2018 deluxe edition of their second studio album, The Click (2017).
"Role Models" is a politically driven song,[3] written as a response to the media controversy surrounding Kanye West, a significant influence on AJR's music.
[4] Band member Adam Met cited My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) as a favorite album of the trio in an interview with San Francisco Chronicle, later describing the difficulty of enjoying it with knowledge of West's character outside of music.
[7] AJR initially created this as a demo, intending to later add elements of electronic dance music as extra production to make it fit with the album.
Band member Ryan Met then took inspiration from Fountains of Wayne's song "Fire Island" to create a reverberated trumpet that accompanied the guitar.