Yaeji drops new song/video “Passed Me By”
Her new album With A Hammer is out on April 7 via XL.
Ahead of this Friday’s (April 4) release of her debut album, With A Hammer, Yaeji has shared its final single, “Passed Me By.” Like previous offerings “For Granted” and “Done (Let’s Get It),” the new song highlights her talents as an electronic pop artist after her introduction to the world as a producer and DJ with a penchant for bubbly house and brash techno. These new tracks are bold reconfigurations of her already formidable skill with melody, and “Passed Me By” might be the most beguiling and beautiful one yet. Enayet and Zanzie direct the song’s music video, an odyssey through Yaeji’s psyche as moving as it is weird.
Speaking with Apple Music on Tuesday, Yaeji discussed how “Passed Me By” captures some feelings that are new to her discography:
'Passed Me By'... at least musically came together really fast and that's usually how my workflow goes. First came the bass that you hear in the intro. When I sing the lines today has been a little weak, a little strong, I light a little fire. And there was no beat at the time, so I wrote the bass and wrote the words somewhat simultaneously which was unusual for me, I think. And since there was no beat and I didn't use a metronome, there's a really weird swing that happens in that intro, which I think it liberated me to create a weird song because I wasn't locked to any grade from the start.
I think 'Passed Me By' is the first time I felt like I had expressed something I couldn't in either Korean or English through sonics, through music.
