A lyrical master who thoughtfully explores the inner workings of music and makes everything her own has been sending waves across the United States.
K.Flay is an American songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist whose music is an introspective, empowering blend of hip-hop,indie rock, and electronic music.
Born as Kristine Meredith Flaherty in Chicago in 1985, she first picked up the mic as a student at Stanford University in California. The mainstream topics noticeable in modern rap drove her to record a parody of the genre. Later this led to her dropping a mixtape in 2004. She decided to move to San Fransisco after graduating to develop her style. Her second mixtape, Mashed Potatoes, appeared in 2009 with backing tracks that were more electro and indie oriented. Soon after she collaborated with MC Lars on an EP called Single and Famous. A few years after it was followed with self-titled 2010 EP and 2011's I stopped Caring in '96, which was a personal breakthrough that inspired her to pursue music.
K.Flay signed to RCA Records in 2012, releasing Eyes Shut that year; the EP included two songs co-produced by Liam Howlett of the Prodigy. Following the self-released mixtape West Ghost, the What If It Is EP arrived on RCA in 2013. Her crowd-sourced, independently released full-length debut, Life as a Dog, appeared in 2014, and charted in Billboard's Top 200 albums. Following the Album's success, she toured the United States and Europe extensively, both as a headlining artist and as support for acts ranging from AWOLNATION to Third Eye Blind. She then became the first signing to Night Street(an imprint of Interscope Records run by Imagine Dragon' Dan Reynolds), releasing the Nashville-recorded Crush Me EP in 2016. In April 2017, K.flay released her sophomore album, Every Where is Some Where, which yielded the Grammy-nominated single "Blood in the Cut."
High Enough
High Enough is one of those songs commonly sought after full of lyrics easy to understand as well as a catchy tune. The quick pace of the song as well as the common changes in sound keep the listener interested at all times. On spotify alone is has raked in over 20,462,316 listeners.
Make Me Fade
Make Me Fade is a song that intwined the intricacies of replacement with a melodic tune. Therefore while displaying more of a saddening morale dilemma with a catchy rememberable song. It gives the listener a lot of emotions and melancholy thoughts. This song has Almost the same amount of listeners as High Enough.
Blood In The Cut
Blood In The Cut is the most popular song created by K.flay to this date. The song combines sadness, cheer, pain, and all other types of struggles and emotions that people go through. Blood In The Cut as the title most likely refers to Individuality and honest emotion being pushed down by others, which is K.Flays best features. This song has pulled just barely below 30 million listeners on spotify.
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