Ella Collier builds emotional pressure cookers and sets them to trap-pop-hyperpop-acoustic fusion mode, then lets them hiss and howl until something beautiful breaks, and she’s here to make you feel like you’re spiraling in a glitter tornado with a cracked compass and a killer soundtrack.
Originally from Atlanta and now haunting Los Angeles with her own brand of mischief, Ella’s sound is like if heartbreak had a rave and invited your inner child and your inner saboteur to slow dance. Her upcoming album, “DANGEROUS,” kicks the door in wearing emotional armor and glitter eyeliner. It’s part ego purge, part shadowboxing session, and part love letter to the versions of ourselves we ghosted.
She’s already carved out a spot—front-page Apple Music, Spotify’s “SALT” playlist, syncs in Love Island and NBA2K, and fans who Zoom in like she’s preaching. Ella is building a bonfire, and today, you get to warm your hands on it with her latest release: “DON’T FOLLOW ME,” a love letter to losing yourself (on purpose).
“DON’T FOLLOW ME” is Ella’s journal entry from the edge of identity collapse, written in invisible ink and sung like a confession booth with a bass drop. It’s the kind of song that makes you want to scream into a pillow, then monologue to your reflection, or maybe even fistfight the downpour of the showerhead like you’re the misunderstood antihero in a coming-of-age film scored by your own existential dread.
She started writing it in college, mid-identity crisis v1.0, and finished it while rebooting herself in a whole new flavor of lost. The lyrics wrestle with the idea that everyone’s faking it—some with better lighting—and that maybe being lost in the midst of it all isn’t a bug; it’s a system feature.
From the sugar-rush metaphor of being consumed and discarded to the raw admission of self-love as a work-in-progress, Ella’s not asking for your sympathy. She’s asking you to back off while she burns the blueprint and redraws herself in smoke and neon.
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