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.
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 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.
