Have you ever felt like living the early 2000s or 2010-ish Hollywood Rom-Com movies? Do you often romanticize your mundane life and turn it into one that is worth remembering in the future? Are you looking for a soundtrack for your monotonous daily life? We’ve got you covered!
If you never heard of her ever in your lifetime, this is your chance to do so! Meet Miist, a multi-award-winning international artist produced by the Top 10 All-time Billboard Producer Narada Michael Walden, who also produced songs for Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Aretha Franklin to name a few. Miist wasn’t exactly a child music prodigy. In fact, she only started writing music the Spring of 2022 at 34 years old. This all happened because of a friend who told her that she can write songs, wherein she argued that she couldn’t. She did it to prove her friend wrong, but turned out to prove her right. In a span of 22 months, would you believe that she finished 65 songs already? She is THAT great of a song writer and artist. She also was the first ever native Chinese to have a Billboard Top 30 Pop Hit. Talk about IT girl energy!
Miist’s first album was released last August 23, 2024 and it was entitled The Songs From The Living Room. It has a total rundown of forty-one minutes and carries eleven tracks in total. The album opens with a sultry and hot opening with Move Your Body Slowly. It emits a very groovy and addicting instrumentals, transporting you in the opening of an early 2000s movie. Think of Elle Woods’ Legally Blonde entrance. That’s the vibe of the instrumental it’s giving. Although when it comes to its lyrics, it shifts to a hundred and eighty degrees and transports you to a more mature part of a movie. Let The Music Fill You, as what the title suggests, is made for a little dancing. Featuring Karl Perazzo, it incorporates percussions in the instrumentals to give an extra groovy vibe. This is a feel-good song, perfect to listen to if you’re entering a new era in your life.
This album really had it all for every scene in our life, just like how It’s Too Late To Love You felt like a background music for when you and your past lover met again and you realized that there are lingering feelings between the two of you. This song features Miist’s producer Narada Michael Walden, making it more painful and emotional because of the blending of their voices all throughout the song. One More Time is a song when you need to get up from a failure in life. It reminds you that chances exist for a reason. It’s surprisingly upbeat instrumental feels contrasting to its lyricism, but it surprisingly fit well. Remember Me Again is another song for a past lover. It talks about how you want them to remember you in their new lover.
In a Bossa Nova-ish instrumental, I Want To Write This Song basks in lyricism about how you want your loved ones in general to always remember you, and they have someone just in case they need a person to run to. It is a song worth dedicating to your friends who went somewhere far for work or other reasons. I’m Not Afraid To Dream Again opens in a heartbreaking intro of lyrics about being heartbroken but had a switch-up wherein it makes you feel hopeful to continue with your pursuits in life and that dreaming again doesn’t hurt anyone and will actually help oneself. In a more sensual theme comes Cherries and Cream. This song just tells us about how sweet it is to love and share intimate moments with the one you love. This song is peak 2000s Hollywood movie intimate scene, which weirdly reminds me of The Notebook.
Love Them Away and I Want To Write This Song are movie-soundtrack worthy as well just like the former songs in the album. It both talked about love, the main theme of this album per se. Love Them Away takes on a more melancholic tone while I Want To Write This Song have gone the cutesy-type of approach in its instrumental. The perfect album ender comes in the form of an extended version of Let The Music Fill You. Just like how movies start and end with its main OST, this album also did just that, which makes it more satisfying as it gives a full-circle moment for the listeners.
If you want to indulge in Miist’s world of song writing and storytelling, feel free to check her social media pages and music streaming platforms profile.
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About the Author
Angel Mariah Rodiel – Mari to the people she’s fond of – is a BA Literature student currently studying in Central Luzon State University. Writing, arts, and music are some of the things she’s been most passionate about ever since she was a kid. Mari’s little dream is to build a band that will open for Paramore’s concert someday. Pop-punk and alternative rock are her comfort music genres, K-pop and J-rock comes close as third and fourth.
