ErickOscar is an independent singer-songwriter and self-taught producer who’s called the US home for 34 years, with a personal and professional life spent moving between countries across Latin America. That background shows up directly in a catalogue that refuses to sit still, touching country, pop, ballads, salsa, merengue, bachata, flamenco, vallenato, reggaeton, mariachi, and gospel. He’s played acoustic guitar for more than three decades and written over 1,200 songs, treating songwriting less as a hobby than a kind of therapy for processing everyday life. New single “It Sucks Getting Old” comes from his 10-track album Two Flags, One Heart, a country and Americana record built around his dual Panamanian and American identity, with three additional tracks on the album specifically dedicated to bridging that same cultural blend.
It Sucks Getting Old
ErickOscar doesn’t try to sugarcoat aging here. The song takes on the passage of time head-on, letting frustration, humor, reflection, and appreciation all sit in the same space rather than picking one emotional lane and staying there. He leans on relatable irony and common, everyday complaints to explore the inevitable parts of growing older without ever pretending any of it is easy, the aches, the changes, the strange experience of watching your own life shift shape over the years. That title alone sets a genuinely human tone, the kind that immediately invites a listener to measure their own experience of aging against his.
What keeps the song from being just a comedic complaint list is the perspective sitting underneath it. Beneath the surface-level frustration is a real search for what still matters once you put the smaller, more trivial stresses into their proper place. Putting things in perspective, ErickOscar suggests, makes it easier to actually notice and appreciate ordinary moments, genuine connections, and the people who are still around and still matter, rather than getting stuck resenting everything time takes away. That’s really what pushes “It Sucks Getting Old” well past its comic premise. It doesn’t deny that aging brings real, sometimes unwelcome challenges, but it also refuses to let those challenges erase gratitude, connection, or plain enjoyment of life as it keeps moving forward.
It’s a subject a lot of songwriters might shy away from, or treat with more solemnity than humor, but ErickOscar takes the more direct route, turning it into a country song that addresses the topic head-on, finds real laughs where it can, and still remembers, by the end, that life is worth appreciating along the way. Within the wider context of Two Flags, One Heart, the song works as a kind of universal entry point into an album otherwise built on cultural identity and specific personal history, since aging is one of the few experiences that genuinely cuts across every background and border.
Final Thoughts
“It Sucks Getting Old” is a funny, genuinely relatable single that earns its emotional weight without ever losing its sense of humor, and it’s a strong reminder that ErickOscar’s songwriting works just as well with universal, everyday subject matter as it does with more personal, culturally specific material. It’s available now on Spotify. For more, visit his official site, or follow him on Instagram, Facebook, X, and TikTok.
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