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 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.
