Bingkai Karya–Juliet Ivy is set to release her anticipated new EP “tiny but scary” in August 2024. To celebrate the announcement, Juliet is premiering the second single from the EP, “4 foot 2.” Which explores a challenging mental health period from the perspective of Juliet’s inner child.
With “tiny but scary,” Juliet digs into her own experiences as a young woman in the 21st century. “Girlhood is really present in this project—all the ever-changing, complicated, intertwined emotions of being a young girl,” she explains. Despite the EP’s focus on Juliet’s present, her deftly chosen lyrics place it within a larger context. Juliet’s honest lyrics captivate listeners throughout, especially when combined with her subtly insistent melodies.
Juliet Ivy, 23, was raised in a Chinese and Colombian family in New York City. She started creating her own music as a freshman and studied songwriting and production fundamentals at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. She started doing sessions with producers all across the city the following year. “Being the only writer and only lyricist in the room made me fall in love with lyrics. I had never been in a room where lyrics were the number one thing.”
The dreamy single “we’re all eating each other” hit No. 1 on Spotify’s Global Viral 50. Also the five-song collection eventually amassed more than 65 million streams. Since then, Juliet has continued writing, combining existential and introspective subject matter with playful lyrics. A childlike sense of wonder and an intellectual view of the world, disguising abstract concepts through her own whimsical lens. Last month she wrapped her first-ever headline tour, including a performance at Head in the Clouds Festival in NYC.
