Sydney Ross Mitchell – Big Boy Problem
The emerging singer-songwriter Sydney Ross Mitchell will release a new EP entitled Cynthia on February 6 via Disruptor Records.
Over eight tracks, Mitchell oscillates between her religious Texas childhood and her present-day Los Angeles lifestyle, charting the complicated terrain where desire, guilt, self-indulgence, and grace collide. Produced by Mason Stoops (Lizzy Mcalpine, Role Model), Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty), Michael Harris (Mk.gee, Noah Kahan) and Sammy Witte (Harry Styles, Maggie Rogers), Cynthia spans soaring musical moments, stripped-back emotional performances, and anthemic choruses that mirror the dynamic emotional landscape she writes from.
Today she shares new single “Big Boy Problems,” one of the more playful moments of the EP. Here Sydney details a predominantly physical attraction to a thirty-something with Peter Pan Syndrome. Without any moral posturing or over-intellectualization, she revels in her guilty pleasure and admits something all too human about romance in your twenties – sometimes toxic feels good. Mitchell says, “I wrote it about being a bitch to my crush and feeling sexy.”
Sydney Ross Mitchell closed out 2025 with the release of “Queen of Homecoming,” a song about her tenuous relationship with her hometown and her longing for validation and acknowledgement from the place she’s outgrown. She also previously shared Cynthia’s title track, a true story about being approached in a strip club bathroom by an older woman named Cynthia, urging her to leave and citing a vision from God as the reason.
Sydney Ross Mitchell grew up as the only girl in a house full of brothers, in a West Texas town where the three pillars of life were Faith, Family, and Football. From a young age, she had to learn to play hard, hold her own, and make herself heard – instincts that now imbue her writing with a rare mix of sharpness, desperation, and grace that have made her narrative voice unmistakable.
After moving to Los Angeles, Mitchell waited tables and wrote songs between shifts, quietly carving out a space for herself in the city’s creative undercurrent. Her sound lives somewhere between Americana storytelling and pop transcendence. It’s personal, plainspoken, and always searching for meaning in both the sacred and the profane.
Sydney Ross Mitchell put herself on the map with her 2024 single, “Forward to the Kill,” which earned a co-sign from SZA and recognition from Zane Lowe, who featured the track on his Apple Music playlist and radio show. Whether performing with a five-piece band or solo acoustic, Sydney exudes a natural charisma on stage and has captured live audiences across North America and the UK with her singular songwriting and vulnerable performance.
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