New York’s Simone is ready to release her pure pop Love Lessons EP this summer.

New York’s Simone is ready to release her pure pop Love Lessons EP this summer. At 16, after releasing her first alt-pop track “Kissing Strangers” HERE last month, she’s revealing her 2nd EP song “Boy Of My Dreams” today HERE. Simone writes with a cinematic eye here, capturing the rough edges of modern relationships in vivid detail.

Simone about her new single: “Boy Of My Dreams” is a song I wrote after ending a relationship that really damaged my perception of love. The song is a reflection on that experience as well as the opinions on love I had at the time: everyone settles, everything ends, and even the boy of my dreams could turn out to be a disappointment.”

At 10 years old, her worldview opened up to become a performer when she sang 2 self-written songs at an open mic in Nashville, TN. Needless to say that from an early age, New York-based Simone has set her vision on sharing her love for music. “Kissing Strangers”s arrangements are sonically rich to match, mixing radio-ready pop hooks with indie rock grit and singer/songwriter intimacy. “Kissing Strangers” is a buoyant, brilliant earworm exploring the rise and fall of young love in all its exhilarating, heartbreaking transience.

Born and raised in New York City, Simone first fell in love with Broadway as a youngster. By the age of ten, she’d already appeared in a slew of musicals, and by the time she hit middle school, she was writing her own songs and performing regularly at New York open mic nights, such as Sidewalk Cafe. It was at one of those early performances that Simone caught the attention of a New York-based producer, and soon she found herself recording in a proper studio and making waves across Spotify and social media. With a mix of mesmerizing performance clips and down-to-earth, straight-to-camera videos documenting daily life, she quickly went viral on TikTok (221K followers), racking up millions of likes from fans around the world who could relate to both her unabashed ambition and dry, self-deprecating sense of humor.

Simone’s musically diverse songwriting styles from acoustic teary to pop bops will be part of her upcoming full Love Lessons EP this summer. Besides writing, she hosts a weekly podcast Is This Thing On? here.