Emerald M., a new
talent, introduces herself to music fans with “Never Mine”
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By Kurt Beyers
To announce
herself to the music world, 19-year-old Emerald M. has come out with a trippy,
rock-poppy-punk bad-love song called “Never Mine.”
It’s a fun,
fast-moving track about a girl who wants a certain man for all the wrong
reasons but can’t have him.
And she’s good
with that.
“It’s not
personal,” she said. “It’s just a story I created about liking someone, then
being okay with the way it turned out.”
You
were never mine
Cuz
you had her
I
thought it was fine
To
be the bad girl
Emerald, who is
from Myanmar, just graduated from high school in London, England, where she
moved for her last year and a half of school.
“I’ve always
been into music, since I was a kid. But I started writing more songs in the
pandemic in 2020. Before, I was an instrumentalist mainly, and I started
writing songs and got focused on singing
more than just instruments.”
She has a
smooth, lovely, low-register voice, fluid and expressive, and she clearly
enjoys using it. It’s easy to see how she became focused on singing.
“Then,” she
said, continuing the story of her entry into music as a profession, “I wrote a
few songs in 2020, kind of like for practice and stuff. But last year I had a
few songs that were good to release. So I started finding connections and
emailing producers to help me out.”
In addition to
abundant talent, she possesses drive.
She got as a producer William Lucey, a singer, songwriter,
producer, instrumentalist from Ireland, now living in Boston. He has worked
with such artists as George Harrison, REM, Alicia Keys and Mick Flannery and
for almost 20 years was a member and songwriter for the Irish band Rubyhorse.
“We met online
and worked on that song together for a few months. I started with a demo in my
dorm room, and then I sent it to him. We finalized it at the beginning of the
year.”
“My first intention was for it to be a very slow indie
song with maybe just a piano accompanying, or a guitar,” she said.
But she has a brother who is into pop punk, “so I have a little of that
influence in me,” and that influence contributed to “Never Mine” taking a
different shape in her head.
“The verses and the chorus are actually two different
songs, from two different ideas I had at two different times. I put them
together later because I had this idea for ‘Never Mine’ to be a little bit pop
punk. I wanted it to be more upbeat, so I asked my producer to increase the tempos,
and we added drums.”
Drums with a driving beat. And guitars, fast guitars.
Not loud, but fast.
“This is my
first song, my first, official debut single, just for me to get my online
presence out there.”
She has several songs produced and ready to drop when
she decides to put them out. She wants music to be her career, but, she says,
she still has to go to university.
“I
would still be doing music alongside that, and that’s going to be my main
focus, music.”
Emerald hopes to begin playing shows before too long and
put out an EP.
“And put that together very soon,” she said. “That would be
my first ever big project, probably in the next year.”
Her bio lists
her genres as pop, alternative, indie and pop rock, to which she has now added
pop punk.
“With every
song I’m doing right now, it’s all different vibes. I don’t want to stick to
one genre and then follow a set of rules. I want to experience a lot of music
styles. If someone asked me what’s my genre, I don’t really have one because
it’s all over the place. I like to experiment with different sounds.”
Connect with Emerald
M. on all platforms for new music, videos, and social posts.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KZWI5NPF6tE&feature=share
: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/never-mine/1694085744?i=1694085745
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVH9v4qhTGG82eZyMwePsBw
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