Maya Kuriel – Dead Weight

Rising pop sensation, Maya Kuriel, has kicked off 2025 with a powerful new single, “Dead Weight,” an eerie and emotionally charged track that explores the suffocating weight of toxicity. Through raw lyrics and experimental production, Maya plunges listeners into a disorienting descent—much like Alice falling down the rabbit hole—where the lines between reality and nightmare blur.

“Dead Weight” paints a visceral picture of drowning while “clawing, screaming” into the depths where the light can’t reach. The song encapsulates the battle of confronting what drags us down and ultimately finding the strength to break free. The music video for “Dead Weight” brings the song’s theme to life with surreal, fluid movements that evoke the feeling of being dragged down. Featuring hypnotic and unsettling visuals, Maya Kuriel is seen struggling and drowning in water, symbolizing the emotional weight that threatens to consume her.

Born and raised in Seattle and now based in Los Angeles, Maya Kuriel is a first-generation Korean American artist redefining the landscape of pop music. She’s a sonic architect crafting a world where eerie synths, raw emotion, and grungy production collide. Maya embraces the underrepresented, carving out a space for Asian voices in a genre that’s long overdue for a shake-up. Her music drips with moody textures and cinematic tension, luring listeners into a hypnotic haze of haunting melodies and pulsating beats. Since her debut in 2020, Maya has amassed over 2.5 million streams across all platforms, captivating audiences worldwide with her powerful vocal melodies and introspective lyrics. With a voice that floats between ethereal beauty and unfiltered grit, she’s the storm brewing on the edge of pop’s horizon—one that refuses to be ignored.

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