Alt-pop artist Maya Yenn is back with another freshly-squeezed offering. Refreshing as a tall, ice-cold glass of lemonade and just as bitter, “Sour Grapes” is a downright catchy tune full of nostalgic warmth, bleeps and bloops from half-remembered video games and R&B-inspired beats that speaks to the frustrations of growing up.
After the success of Maya Yenn’s third single, “Better Luck Next Time”, a playful pop song with an urgent message, the artist has followed up with a theatrical, self-directed music video full of bright colours, clownish characters, whimsical choreography and whiskey sours.
The opening is straight out of film noir. A spotlight illuminates Yenn in an oversized, gaudy blue suit, her red hair swept back like a 50s teddy boy. Suddenly tungsten lights flick on, and the illusion is shattered. The frame expands, flooding with colour as Yenn rolls her eyes, “My boss is gonna kill me”. The camera pulls back to reveal an abandoned warehouse. Alongside colourful characters, Yenn breaks into choreography that grotesquely echoes the gestures of business moguls. It makes you want to dance along with them.
The artist is back with a buoyant bop, but don’t be fooled, this playful pop song is a trojan horse containing an urgent warning for humankind.
Musically, Maya Yenn isn’t afraid to bend genres and her latest release, Better Luck Next Time is no exception, blending left-field productions choices with pop, a whisper of jazz and lyrical storytelling, the song centers around a disturbing analogy for humankind’s self-destructive behaviour and its consequences for the world’s future.
After Maya Yenn’s sophomore single, How Much Sadness Can You Swallow? dazzled listeners with its drama and sumptuousness, the artist has followed up with an appropriately cinematic music video that took months of work to create.
Shot right across the UK, from the rural plains of Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Cheshire to the striking dunes of Formby beach in Liverpool. It's the second self-directed music video Yenn has released following the tiptoe music video, and pays homage to the artist’s love of contemporary horror and sci-fi cinema.
After the success of her haunting debut, the artist is back with a sumptuous slice of glitchy electropop and the subject matter is darker than ever.
Written in response to a particularly disturbing nightmare Yenn had of “a vision of hell”, the sophomore song to her anxiety-laced debut feels very different in tone. Where tiptoe feels claustrophobic and breathless, How Much Sadness Can You Swallow? is expansive and luscious, flowing with almost nursery-rhyme-like melodies and climaxing in driving bass hits and lush stabs of woozy synth.
After dropping her self-produced debut single back in April, Maya Yenn has followed up with a self-directed and appropriately unsettling music video for tiptoe.
Yenn’s debut single, which was first created as a “spooky beat” went semi-viral on TikTok and amassed over 15,000 Spotify streams within the first month of release. Haunting and breathless, the song’s lyrics imagine a surreal place where the listener finds themselves playing a high-stakes game of hide and seek with the personification of all their fears and anxieties.
April 2021 saw the release of brand new alt-pop artist, Maya Yenn’s debut single, ‘tiptoe’; a self-produced anthem to a brand of anxiety unique to Millenials and Gen Z.
The release of ‘tiptoe’ comes after the independent artist’s first TikTok videos blew up on TikTok over Halloween 2020. In the initial video, Yenn records “spooky” sounds in and around her parents’ home in Staffordshire where she has been living during the pandemic; in her second video titled, “A beat but make it spooky” Yenn uses the samples to create a haunting beat that would later become ‘tiptoe’. Twigs snapping, a candle being blown out, a pumpkin landing on a table, and a stick dragged across railings all made up the irresistible tapestry that captivated TikTok users, amassing 500,000 views overall. TikTok users keen to hear more encouraged Yenn to add lyrics to the beat. She obliged and a further 55,000 views and 15,000 likes later, TikTok users commented in their droves once again begging for the full song.
