Mazie

Bright, upbeat sounds mingle with glum, withdrawn words in the multicolored bedroom-pop universe shaped by singer, songwriter, and producer Mazie. Contradiction and euphoric disarray surface throughout her tuneful, hook-driven material, which first appeared across a run of independent singles before reaching her opening EP, The Rainbow Cassette, issued in 2022.

Born Grace Christian in Albany, Georgia, she moved with her family to the Baltimore region while still young. During childhood she trained in classical and jazz singing, then began composing original material as a teenager, capturing those early efforts alongside neighbor Elie Rizk, a collaborator of Remi Wolf. Mazie’s first release under the new name, the 2020 single “No Friends,” delivered a brief, psychedelic swirl of Beatlesque orchestral pop, assorted sonic textures, self-deprecating lines, and buoyant trap percussion, all packed into under two minutes. The track spread rapidly online and soon secured a deal with Virgin Records. Additional singles arrived afterward, among them the widely embraced “dumb dumb” in 2021. August of that year brought her debut EP, The Rainbow Cassette, which gathered most of the earlier tracks and supplemented them with several new ones. In the following two years she contributed a featured appearance alongside Steve Aoki and Regard while continuing to issue her own material, including the 2022 track “Girls Just Wanna Have Sex” and the 2023 release “It’s Not Me (It’s U).”