“At that time I was like, ‘No… I’m cooler than that.’ But now that I look back, I’m like yeah that’s really what it was. “I think I got that moniker when I was first starting out,” she says of the bedroom pop label. Bear, who released Vu’s debut EP in 2018, which featured the bass-heavy sad-girl anthem, “Crying on the Subway,” and cemented her status as a bedroom pop star. These songs caught the attention of Gorilla vs. She went on to play with surf-rock and punk bands in the local DIY scene, posting her own music, often recorded with her iPhone and Apple headphones, to Bandcamp.
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“Who was the guy that was about to kill his son for God? Abraham and Isaac,” she laughs, adding that she was “trying to write through the perspective of him-a very desperate person, desolate and lost.”įor the most part, the Los Angeles native’s relationship with music has been self-guided, originating when she first picked up her dad’s guitar and taught herself how to play. The character inspiration for Public Storage takes on a slightly different angle. Vu’s previous double EP, Nicole Kidman / Anne Hathaway, which includes a delightfully off-kilter cover of “Reflection” (of Mulan fame), is loosely aggregated around the narrative of an insecure starlet. It’s less about being specific to my own life and playing up certain themes.” “I tried to play core themes and play more of a character in my writing. “There’s a little more theater in Public Storage,” she explains. Vu, a musician who often writes songs through the perspectives of others, is well-versed in the concept of accessing vulnerability through detachment. “I was inspired by how he was able to make something that felt personal and impersonal at the same time.” “It’s gross, but it’s also the rawness of himself,” she says of the artist’s jaundiced, screen-print portraits. Vu says she drew inspiration for the cover art from Bruce Nauman’s Studies for Holograms.
Public Storage’s lush, hazy-edged pop sensibility comes into contrast with the album’s cover, a photograph of the inside of Vu’s mouth rendered in bruised greens and yellows. “It’s cold, there’s still Christmas music playing, you’re thinking about all of your past regrets, and you have all the shame of being single, like on Valentine’s Day.” “It’s like the worst of all the holidays combined,” Vu jokes during a video call from her Los Angeles apartment. In “Everybody’s Birthday,” a single from Hana Vu’s debut album, Public Storage, the 21-year-old musician paints a lurid picture of New Year’s reflections, singing “Everybody knows that it’s all end times / And everyone I know is blue” in her signature swooning contralto. Beneath the countdowns and parties often lies that same old, familiar existential dread masquerading in glitter and tinsel. Posted in: Previews Tagged: ABBA, Alewya, Allison Ponthier, Allison Russell, Amyl and the Sniffers, Angele, Anna Smyrk, Arlo Parks, Ashe, Avril Lavigne, Baby Queen, Bahari, Beach Bunny, Best of 2021, Bia, Big Klit, Bnny, Brandi Carlile, Camp Cope, Cardi B, Charlotte Cardin, CMAT, Coi Leray, Companion, Cumgirl8, Danielia Cotton, Dawn Richard, Deborah Gibson, Doja Cat, Don Giovanni Records, Edge of Paradise, Ellsworth, Fifi Rong, Fire Talk Records, GEORGIA MAQ, Girl In Red, Halestorm, Hana Vu, Haru Nemuri, HAWXX, India Shawn, Infected Rain, Ingrid Andress, Insect Ark, Irreversible Entanglements, Isabella Manfredi, Jackson and Sellers, Japanese Breakfast, Jenny Shawhan, Jess Chalker, Jillette Johnson, Jinjer, Kiesza, Kill Birds, Killboy, Kito, L’Freaq, Laufey, Liz Phair, Lola Lennox, lolita, Lorde, Lucy Dacus, LVDY, LVXURI, Madelline, Madi Diaz, Magdalena Bay, Marissa Nadler, Mattiel, May-A, Megan Thee Stallion, Ms Banks, Muni Long, Nadia Sheikh, Nadia Vaeh, Nnenna Freelon, Noa Kirel, Noga Erez, Number One Popstar, Olivia Rox, Phoebe Bridgers, Pom Pom Squad, Ray BLK, Red Hook, Remi Wolf, Royal and the Serpent, S.G.New Year’s Eve is not for everyone.
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