Blessing our ears from Sydney, Australia, is a singer-songwriter and retro-influenced electro-pop recording artist Jeffrey Chan with his new beaming and resilient single, "Over."
Whenever you want pop music with retro influences and a modern electronic edge, Jeffrey Chan's tunes are your best bet. He's unafraid to push the boundaries in music creation, which landed him roughly one million cumulative streams in two years alone. He's amassed a loyal following that constantly returns to explore the themes and concepts of his new releases.
Now, the Australian pop artist is sharpening his retro meets modern sound with a new cathartic single, "Over." His second release of the year, this new song discusses "the moment when you have finally come to terms with the end of a relationship. I wanted to capture that feeling when you're looking back at everything that happened, both the good and the bad," explains Chan.
Jumping into the vibrant new tune, "Over," the song pounces openly with a cosmic array of synths that send us into the danceable, retro, and groovy first verse. Jeffrey Chan's smooth and crooning vocals bring us deep into his personal situation with a past relationship while the sonics pump through our speakers with sounds reminiscent of Eurythmics, Duran Duran, and Daft Punk.
We love the equal amounts of emotion and groove that seep through this single; Jeffrey Chan's introspective lyrics and thoughts are highly relatable, and his exhilarating sonics feel like unleashing years of pent-up emotion and confusion. It's a reflective song, to say the least, but one that keeps you hooked with retro 80s synthpop sounds and infectious rhythm that travels from head to toe.
When love and loss have you down, pick yourself up with the high-energy and relatable listening experience from Jeffrey Chan's new single, "Over," now available on all digital streaming platforms.
Welcome to BuzzMusic, Jeffrey Chan. We're truly infatuated with the groove and emotion within your new cathartic single, "Over." When did you feel inspired to write a song about accepting that a relationship is "Over?"
I wanted to really capture that unique feeling that comes with accepting that a relationship is ‘over’; I wanted to explore not only the heartbreak but also the acceptance and almost sense of defeat that it comes with. It isn’t necessarily only about relationships, but it can also be any sense of loss or the idea of a certain chapter in your life coming to a close. I wanted to write about that because we usually get a lot of angry or sad breakup songs, but we never get an “Okay, well, I guess it’s over, here’s how I'm feeling” type of song.
Why did you want to give the production for "Over" this exciting electronic and synthpop groove, even though your lyrics are quite emotional?
With the release of my past few singles, I’ve started diving more into a lot of the retro influences and new wave sounds that have been inspiring me, and I wanted to take those and turn it up to 100 on this track. At the heart of it, “Over” is about accepting the fact that your relationship is coming to an end, and I wanted to create a song that talked about that but also allowed you to escape into a better place and different mindset. I wanted the music video to also reinforce this idea of forgetting about your troubles and dancing through your tears.
Speaking of your emotional lyricism in "Over," what was your songwriting process like? What was your experience writing such personal and reflective lyrics about love and loss?
I really wanted to capture the feeling and tell the story from a first-person perspective of what love and loss feel like and how certain memories look different once you reflect back on them. At the same time, I didn’t want the lyrics to be shrouded in absolute misery, so I juxtaposed the lyrics against a very upbeat and almost ’80s workout track’ style production. I feel that this is the perfect song for dancing through your heartbreak and trying to see the best in a bad situation almost (that's definitely what I hoped to convey in the music video, which you should check out because I feel it gives the track another layer of meaning) What was the most rewarding part about creating "Over?" What did you take away and appreciate most from making this shimmering new tune?
The most rewarding part was definitely just being able to explore another facet of songwriting and writing from a different point of view lyrically. It also felt very cathartic because this release seemed to line up quite perfectly with the end of a chapter in some aspects of my professional life (almost as if it was meant to be). I was so happy to once again get to work with my best friend (Nick Karras), who has been my partner in crime on all my video releases for a while now, and we always just have a blast filming all these different concepts and looks.
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