Juliet Ivy – Tiny But Scary

Breakout NYC born-and-bred singer-songwriter Juliet Ivy’s new EP tiny but scary is out via AWAL.

Watch the official video for the focus track “girl talk”.

With tiny but scary, Juliet digs into her own experiences as a young woman in the 21st century. “Girlhood is really present in this project—all the ever-changing, complicated, intertwined emotions of being a young girl,” she explains. While the EP is rooted in Juliet’s now, her cleverly crafted lyrics situate that present in a fuller picture. Throughout, Juliet brings listeners into her head with honest, yet whimsical lyrics, which pair beautifully with her gently insistent melodies. “This EP is welcoming the people who found me from the first project [playpen] into my brain, my bedroom, and my childhood, and having them get to know me a little better,” she says. “playpen represented how I saw things outside of myself; this next project is more internal.”

23-year-old Juliet Ivy grew up in a Colombian-Chinese household in New York City. She attended NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, where she learned the basics of songwriting and production, and she began making her own music as a freshman. The next year, she began embarking on sessions with producers around the city. During one of the sessions, she had a revelation: “Being the only writer and only lyricist in the room made me fall in love with lyrics. I had never been in a room where lyrics were the number one thing.” With her priorities shaken up, she plunged even deeper into songwriting—“not love songs; songs about existentialism, growing up, life and death,” she notes. She had a breakthrough while writing what became her first single “breakfast song,” which, she says, is about how most people are figuring out life as it goes along. The revelatory experience Juliet had with “breakfast song” led to her diving into her first EP, playpen.

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