AJ Mitchell Wants 'Slow Dance' To Soundtrack Every Prom

The world melts away once you're in your lover's arms. Once you're locked in an embrace. Any time your lips are magnetized to each other's and your foreheads connect at the seams.


"Slow Dance," AJ Mitchell's recent group effort with Ava Max, is made for this tender feeling and sounds like the score to a rom-com's happy ending. Nevertheless as Mitchell — the MTV PUSH artist for the month of November — instructed us in a recent conversation, it's also brilliant for something else: to soundtrack those lovey-dovey moments on the dance floor at prom. That's exactly what was on Mitchell's mind as soon as he initially got a taste of it.


once I first heard it, I was like 'That song's so catchy,'" he mentioned. "I can hear that playing at every prom, every dance."


Over the last three years, Mitchell has come up from YouTube covers and Instagram videos, making songs by Julia Michaels and Jon Bellion his own with a smooth croon. He dropped his first EP, Hopeful, in 2018 and recently followed up with the Slow Dance EP in August. To totally feel its title track, you'll have to get into a serious disagreement with your spouse, realize hours later – presumably throughout the middle of the night – that you were wrong and so they were right, then race across town, in a blinding downpour, to proclaim your love to them at the best of your lungs. And then maybe just be dancing with each other at prom.


Mitchell understands a thing or two about proms. He also revealed that he went to not just his own (his companions had no idea that he was coming, so it was an epic surprise), nevertheless another one as well, in Denver. "I was on tour at the time, and my manager's little sister — I surprised her and went with her," he said.


Check out Mitchell's smooth, prom-ready efficiency of "Slow Dance" below and visualize the rest of his exclusive PUSH content right here.