

The music video adds to the song’s physicality clad sexily in leather and red, the artist jumps, gyrates, and swivels gracefully on a trampoline, her body moving in perfect harmony with the other dancers in the frame. After a year of near-constant stagnation in the house, the track’s celebratory tone resonates hard. “Tonight we steppin' out / Been a minute since I found / Someone who could hold it down,” Tinashe raps confidently about finally stepping out into the streets to dance furiously with friends and lovers. Vu began writing songs as a child and started performing around L.A. It makes her feel good and sets her up for the day. Hana Vu is an American DIY singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California. Pop music, particularly the top 40s of the early 2000s, is Hana’s go to playlist first thing. She signed to Ghostly International in 2021, releasing Maker, the first glimpse of new material to come. “Bouncin,” the latest single from Tinashe, is a funky electronic-R&B song that compels the listener to move almost subconsciously. Every morning when Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu wakes up, she listens to ‘Promiscuous’ by Nelly Furtado. Hana Vu writes pop songs from her bedroom in Los Angeles. Scroll down below to see our regularly updated playlists on Spotify and Apple Music, and see earlier music roundups here. In Everybody’s Birthday, a single from Hana Vu’s debut album, Public Storage, the 21-year-old musician paints a lurid picture of New Year’s reflections, singing Everybody knows that. This week, we’re highlighting tracks by Tinashe, Yves Tumor, Syd, Hana Vu, Alexalone, Kelsey Lu, Soccer Mommy, Kevin Abstract, and Allison Ponthier. Hana Vu first wrote and shared her music online when she was only 14 years old, and since those early days she has taken the initiative to press on and work on her own terms with an admirable determination, continuing to produce all of her own music to this day. is selecting the best songs released by queer musicians on every New Music Friday. To help you with this extremely good problem to have, them. We had a chat with Hana about the EP, her influences and what she’s looking forward to throughout the rest of 2018.Ĭatch up with all our Get To Know… features to date here.Openly LGBTQ+ artists are releasing tons of great music, now more than ever. Next up, we’re with LA’s Hana Vu who, despite having just finished high school, has racked up an impressive list of early career credits: she’s been writing music for the past five years, released a collaboration with Willow Smith, supported Soccer Mommy in her hometown and has just released her first official EP ‘How Many Times Have You Driven By’.Īt ten tracks long, the EP is closer to an album, a collection of rich bedroom pop gems with inflections of soulful R&B. We recently got to know Brighton-based Breathe Panel and new Dirty Hit signing ‘No Rome’. Hello and welcome to DIY’s new introducing feature, Get To Know… With two new acts a week, the feature pretty much does what it says on the tin: getting you a little bit closer to the buzziest new acts that have been catching our eye as of late, and working out what makes them tick.
