Mae Muller's 'Instinctive, Animalistic' Approach To Songwriting

North London's Mae Muller began writing songs by attempting to emulate her heroes. First up, whenever she was much younger, was Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine . "I was obsessed," she tells MTV. "I attempted to write like her. I think I was 19 Once I put my first song on SoundCloud."


However unlike Flo and other artists whose identities and artsy visions are clearly defined from the begin, Muller started her own journey with a lot of questions. "I was like, I don't really know who the hell I am. I really don't. And I think just writing really made me find that."


Muller, the MTV Push artist for January 2022, understands who she is currently — or at least, she is aware who she's keen to be for the moment before she evolves. As she discussed to MTV about her rise, she also reflected back on her first concert at O2 Forum Kentish Town, where her father took her to be able to see electronic categorize Lemon Jelly. "They did a kids' show dressed because the Flintstones," she tells MTV. "Thinking back to it, it's very weird and psychedelic, although I must've been, like, five."


Her music, meanwhile, sounds not also electronic nor also, well, childish. As a substitute, her breakout hit "Better Days" harkens back to late-'70s disco sounds yet filtered by means of the world wide web age, in the vein of recent chart-topping hits like Doja Cat's mention So" and Dua Lipa's "Levitating." The funk bassline and especially tidy production from producer Neiked permits Muller to pine on the bright chorus for the sunny future promised by the title.


"When I vocaled the track, I thought it was a banger from the begin Muller says. Although I did think it might would be better." For the final segment of the track, she enlisted help from rapper Polo G. "I'd heard his song on TikTok quite a lot. I was just like, let's just send it to him. And within a week, he'd recorded his verse. It just happened in the most brilliant way, because us three, we're so different as artists and as people."


As an artist, Muller stresses she's still finding herself and her process, though she is aware what's worked in the past, whether that's picking up a guitar or another musical instrument to start playing some chords. "Other times," she says, "I'll just go on the mic and just begin doing gibberish melodies and just visualize what occurs. However I quite like that instinctive, animalistic way of approaching it, whichever comes out."


you could hear that magnetism on "Therapist," a likewise silken cut that finds its power in Mae's powerful and instantly memorable chorus, "You don't require a girlfriend / You just require a therapist."


Right now, Muller doesn't have attempt to sound like anyone yet herself. Get to know her in the efficiency and interview video above.