Lexi Jayde

Singer, songwriter, performer, and online influencer Lexi Jayde first unveiled her introspective, moody brand of pop at sixteen when she issued the single “Whatever” during 2019. After joining the cast of the online series Crown Lake and expanding her digital audience the following year, the track “If I Really Love You” surpassed a million streams. Mid-2021 brought her opening EP, a teenage diary, and soon afterward the follow-up EP, closer to closure, yielded the breakout single “drunk text me,” which quickly amassed tens of millions of streams.

Born Alexis Jayde Burnett and raised in Los Angeles, she began composing songs at the age of six. Shortly thereafter she entered musical theater, sustaining her parallel interests in performance, composition, and acting. Credited under her complete name, she secured an early television part as a student in the 2012 TV film Stolen Child. Her first cinematic appearance came in the family feature Lucky Dog, released in 2015. Two years later she appeared in Jacob Sartorius’s single “Bingo,” then served as a special guest on his 2018 tour. While cultivating a substantial social-media presence, she issued her debut original recording, “Whatever,” under the abbreviated name Lexi Jayde in early 2019. Later that year she joined the second season of the web series Crown Lake in the role of Lucy Quinn.

One month after Crown Lake concluded in January 2020, she independently released the single “If I Really Love You,” converting her online following into more than a million streams. Another standalone track, “Oldest Teenager,” surfaced midway through the year. Early 2021 found her featured with Cigarettes After Sex on Goody Grace’s “On Repeat,” and several months later she joined M-Phazes and Chelsea Lena on Claire Rosinkranz’s “Frankenstein.” July 2021 marked the arrival of her debut EP, a teenage diary.

Fresh material surfaced in November 2021 when she previewed a demo of the melancholic “drunk text me” on social media. An official version co-produced by Alexander 23 collected tens of millions of streams by the start of the next year. The song joined the singles “hate to be you” and “self sabotage” on her second EP, closer to closure, issued in May 2022.