Photo Credit: Tommy Nowels
Max Drazen’s first single of 2023 – “Five Three,” a glorious celebration of the uplifting power of love – is out today via Field Trip Recordings/Capitol Records. With a sense of wonder, Drazen sings, “All I need is you right now / When I’m too high you pull me down / And when I’m low you pick me off the ground / You’re the world to me and you’re just 5’3.” Rence, an artist/producer/songwriter who, like Drazen, has gained a reputation as a “genre disruptor,” produced the track. Drazen wrote “Five Three” with Rence, co-producer Alex Bilo and Andrew Stoelzing. Listen HERE.
In the accompanying video, Drazen gives an exuberant live performance of the song in Malibu, CA, overlooking the ocean. Watch HERE.
“‘Five Three’ is a song about the feeling of finding the person you’ve been looking for,” explains Max Drazen. “My goal was to make the song feel as big and euphoric as possible in order to match that feeling. It took us months to finish— at one point we even rewrote the entire chorus and redid all the production. It was super important to me that the song fit in a world of euphoria and bliss.“