I just came back to Seoul from Paris yesterday. What are you up to right now - describe your surroundings. Hear “Vroom Vroom” below and read on to learn more about Yana. Now a rising voice in the country’s rich underground electronic scene, Yana is proof that K-pop isn’t the only exciting export of the country. Yana initially made her debut in 2012 as part of the K-pop girl group EVOL though she left in 2017 to go independent. “It’s a song about wishes coming true, and the video expresses the song perfectly.” Its music video is a more literal version of that journal, featuring behind-the-scenes footage of Yana working the runways, and drifting around in sports cars and empty aquariums after hours, all while dressed to the nines in Acne. “VROOM VROOM is a journal of my second half of 2023,” Yana tells NYLON over email. Yana also moonlights as a model so most of these nights for her often happen in Paris, a city that’s become a second home of sorts. It’s a direct contrast to Yana’s vocals which are soft, plush, and intimate, an opposing dynamic popularized by PinkPantheress but which Yana makes her own on “Vroom Vroom.” On the song, she sings in English about late nights out and midnight rendezvous with illicit friends and strangers, the kind of outings that runback in our memories like a supercut. It’s produced by h4rdy, a South Korean DJ and producer, who’s polished the track’s jittery beats to a glistening shine. “Vroom Vroom,” whose video NYLON exclusively premieres below, sounds like putting on lip gloss in the left lane. One of its latest adaptors is post K-pop star and South Korean underground electronic singer Bébe Yana, whose new song “Vroom Vroom” utilizes the heart-racing rhythm of drum n bass to soundtrack the fast and high lifestyle of Paris. Drum and bass forms the foundation of several recent songs from massive groups like NewJeans, IVE, and Le Sserafim, like “Zero” and “Hypnosis,” though K-pop has long been playing with the genre. That includes K-pop stars, too, who have embraced the shuffling, two-step sound with open arms. Now, the pop girlies are getting on the beat. No longer is it the sole domain of esoteric electronic music bros listening in their basements. Ever since PinkPantheress arguably ushered the sound into the mainstream pop space in 2021 it’s only grown more and more ubiquitous.
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