Vasilikí’s new single, “Harley Queen” melds dreamy-pop and electronic atmospherics with a memorably melodic drive.
“I wrote ‘Harley Queen’ early 2021 in New York,” Vasilikí says. “I was sitting in my bedroom in Washington Heights and I started playing around with some melodies. All of a sudden I had written half of the song without even realizing it. I felt like there were many unexpressed emotions that found their way on a piece of paper that night. I then passed on my ideas to my favorite human and producer, Stavros. We kept working on it for a long time, but it wasn’t until I recorded the operatic harmonies that it felt like the song made sense. It was like it started living in a world of its own and that is what I was aiming for.”
“HarleyQueen” talks about a girl with big dreams and alluring confidence. Just like Harley Quinn – she meets someone who’s inner world fascinates her so much that she opens up like never before and it leaves her heartbroken.
“Sometimes we find parts of ourselves in other people, sometimes that is the reason we fall in love. We keep our vulnerable side hidden behind a mask that we never take off until someone takes it off for us. We surrender to that someone with our hopes and dreams. We experience love in the most intense manner which can be as freeing as it can be terrifying. ‘Harley Queen’ is special to me in the sense that it paved the way for all of the music that will come next, it sort of gave birth to my first musical era.”
Vasilikí was born and raised in Athens, Greece and moved to New York City at age nineteen to pursue a performing arts career. Throughout this time she has worked on her signature retro sound while building an artistic persona which is drawn by an eccentric, vintage aesthetic that she developed due to her “fascination over those 60 years of art, music and fashion starting from the ‘20s till the late ‘80s.”
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