| "Your Face" | ||||
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| Single by Wisp | ||||
| from the EP Pandora | ||||
| Released | April 4, 2023 | |||
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| Length | 3:47 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Natalie R. Lu | |||
| Producer(s) | Grayskies | |||
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 Artwork prior to Wisp's signing to Interscope Records | ||||
"Your Face" (stylized in sentence case) is the debut single by American musician Wisp. It was released on April 4, 2023 [3] as the first single from her debut EP Pandora . [4]
"Your Face" has been described as shoegaze [1] and alternative rock. [2] Steffanee Wang of Nylon described the song as having "a banging guitar line and crashing waves of drums and vocals". In a publication by Complex , Wisp described how her long-standing love for listening to music led to her becoming an "active participant" when she recorded "Your Face", the first song she'd ever written, over her friend's instrumental. [2] However, the instrumental was actually taken from a type beat called "drowning" which was produced by YouTuber and producer grayskies. She also stated in an interview with Nylon that, while she wishes to keep the true meaning of the song a secret, she "wrote [it] about someone [she] enjoyed talking to" and that it was about "circumstances that hold you back from expressing your love". [1] The song went viral online in the months following its release, and gained Wisp a cult following, which led to her signing to Interscope Records. As of March 2024, the song has over 45 million streams on Spotify. It peaked at number 8 on Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs chart.
Olive Soki-Kavwahirehi of Complex stated that the song "exemplifies all of the winning properties" of shoegaze, and that it, as well as its follow-up single "Tangled Dreams", "indicate a very promising future for the young artist". [2] Andy Von Pip of Under the Radar called it "a low-key rock song of the summer". [5]
The official music video for "Your Face" was released on November 21, 2023. [6] It was directed by Boni Mata and Nick Vernet. The video takes place entirely underwater. As described by Steffanee Wang of Nylon, it "includes no faces, just bodies swimming and gliding among swaying seaweed" with "interspersed shots of a figure with a sheet draped over its face". [1] Michael Major of BroadwayWorld described the video as "featuring gothic mermaids, exposed bone, and striking cinematography" and stated that it "deepens and enhances the allure of Wisp's music, telegraphing a fascinating body of work to come". [7]
| Chart (2023) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Hot Hard Rock Songs (Billboard) [8] | 8 |
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