Siena Fantini – the loved

15-year-old pop singer-songwriter Siena Fantini continues to make waves with her latest single, “the loved.”

This ballad is deeply thoughtful, while also maintaining a youthful perspective, and plays on both elements of modern pop and airy piano arrangements.

Recorded at Altamira Sound, “the loved” came to fruition with the help of several industry icons, such as Sean Hurley (John Mayer, Lana Del Rey), who produced and played bass on the track. He was accompanied by Taylor Mackall on keyboard/piano (Lizzy McAlpine, Joni Mitchell), Harrison Whitford on guitar (Phoebe Bridgers), Kiel Feher on drums (Selena Gomez, Lauv), and Grammy-award winner Darrell Thorp as engineer/mixer (Foo Fighters, Radiohead). Matching the ballad’s compelling pop melody is Fantini’s empowering voice, with the piano as a sonic throughline driving the single’s narrative. “the loved” reflects her recent experience developing feelings for a new person and naturally wondering when it’ll be her turn to have those feelings reciprocated. “I wrote ‘the loved’ in maybe 20 minutes,” Fantini explains. “This is one of those songs that word vomited itself into fruition when I got home from a party. There was this cute guy there that I had no idea how to impress (or why I even felt the need to impress him).” Fantini describes this one-sided crush as awkward and uncomfortable, admitting that she can get too in her head about the situation. “I just ended up talking and running my mouth so much that I simply just embarrassed myself. When I got home that night, I sort of spiraled, thinking about how I constantly put my entire heart into people, but I never quite get the same thing back. It was a moment of insecurity for me, but I feel like that’s something a lot of people deal with, feeling like you’ll never find the love that you want.”

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