Fiaa Hamilton is in the middle of her ascension from TikTik LIVE’s Breakthrough Star award winner to next up pop sensation. Now her storytelling alt-pop takes a darker turn with the single ‘Boy Like You’, accompanied by a horror-tinged music video which is perfectly timed after Halloween last week. Listen HERE.
As one fan stated on socials after seeing a teaser, ‘Boy Like You’ is Fiaa’s “sexiest and scariest song yet.” And that’s entirely correct, it’s don’t-get-mad get-even vibe summarised by Fiaa’s sweetly sinister voice intoning, “God get me through this ‘cuz im acting toxic babe.” The music sees Fiaa taking a deep dive into the dark pop world with foreboding gothic synths and ominous vocoder vocal effects building towards a vehement declaration: this is one woman that you don’t want to mess with.
The video takes that narrative several steps further into the darkness. The first shot is of Fiaa exuding femme fatale evil elegance as her mugshot is taken after being arrested: a mix of beauty and brutality that brings to mind ‘Gone Girl’ vibes. It then cuts back to Fiaa disposing of the body of the man who wronged her, her face and car splattered with blood while the sun-kissed religious icons of Greece reflect her desperate prayer.
Fiaa says, “‘Boy Like You’ was written about a toxic relationship I was in. I had totally lost myself, but it was one of the biggest of my life – sometimes life’s biggest disasters turn into a miracle. I wanted to take the listener to a different place with me and I made sure the visuals match this. It’s still heavily pop but it takes a unique twist with a dark alternative breakdown.”
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