Mykki Blanco Drops New Single Summer Fling Featuring Kari Faux
Friday, 04 June 2021
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Luca Venter
Mykki Blanco has shared a new song, Summer Fling.
The collaboration with Arkansas rapper Kari Faux will appear on their upcoming mini album, 'Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep', out digitally on June 18 via Transgressive Records, with physical formats following on October 1. The project marks Blanco’s first official release in nearly five years, following their 2016 debut full-length 'Mykki'.
Produced by FaltyDL and with whispery backing vocals from AKUA, the track unfurls around a bouncy rhythm comprising drum and bass. It follows the previously revealed Free Ride and Love Me. Blanco said:
"I wanted Summer Fling to feel like a song I could have heard at my middle school dance, maybe it's because those were the years in which I was coming of age. Y2K aesthetics still influence me heavily at some point in the creation of my songs. I always feel like the Y2K vibe haunts its way into the room and makes its presence felt on my records.
"Summer Fling is essentially about ghosting someone, it's a playful song about the weird ups and downs of dating. I loved writing this song and it got even better when I recruited rapper and vocalist Kari Faux to be on the track. Kari's delivery is slick and charged up, she takes no prisoners with her bars. She adds a layer of bravado and feminine mystique to the song. In addition to her verse that she wrote, she also contributed to the writing of the hook."
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