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.
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.
