Born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Kiey is emerging as a multi-faceted creative. With his resourceful first album ‘Night To Myself’ being fully self-produced despite his limited equipment and 2022 follow-up ‘Sunday Sanctuary’ showcasing an affinity for boundary-pushing electro-pop, the artist has also put together an art exhibition for his music and released a slew of well-received music videos.
Now, looking ahead to his third album, the singer, songwriter and producer has released ‘white boy i sat next to on the plane’, the first English single from the project. Laced in a gorgeous and dainty piano line and sparse percussion, Kiey slowly introduces warm bass lines, lush string arrangements and climactic atmospheres beneath his heartfelt vocals.
Kiey dives into the track, ”’white boy i sat next to on the plane”’(yes the title is that long) first came to me during many of my working trips to Sapa, Vietnam. I already had this addictive piano riff in my Google drive that I kept playing over and over, thinking how to make a song over it. Bits and pieces of the melody were already forming in my mind but it was still incomplete because I didn’t know what the subject of the song should be. It wasn’t until when I was on a flight back to HCM, where I saw a beautiful guy sitting across the aisle that it dawned on me the idea of the song title! I quickly wrote the lyrics down over a couple of days and when it was finished, I was so excited because it came out exactly as I imagined it!”
The single is released alongside a music video that echoes the loneliness expressed in the track, with minimal spaces and thoughtful colour choices, it outlines more of what the track represents.
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