April 14, 2023 – After igniting Soundcloud and earning acclaim from the likes of Earmilk and more, rising R&B singer and songwriter Genia unveils a new single and music video entitled “Jaded” today via Def Jam Recordings. Listen to “Jaded”HERE and watch the music video HERE.
Throughout the track, a skittering beat underscores her emotionally charged delivery. She leans into the airy soundscape with a dynamic cadence before she confesses, “Ask me how I feel. I’m’a say I’m jaded.” The accompanying visual finds Genia at home in Victorville, CA. The black-and-white footage evokes the introspective spirit of the song as the clip follows her during a contemplative day as she stares into the pool from the diving board, clinches a chain link fence, and locks eyes with herself in the mirror.
It lands in the wake of her breakout anthem “Introducing.” Last month, it lit up Soundcloud with 200K streams in its first week and vaulted to #1 on the Soundcloud New I’m and Hot: R&B Chart. Right out of the gate, Earmilk proclaimed, “she is a name for music fans to remember,” and Def Pen attested, “It’s safe to say that the secret is out. Genia is here and it doesn’t look like she’s leaving anytime soon.”
Everything just sets the stage for her forthcoming debut mixtape 4PM in the Ville out on June 2.
Genia rides for the underdogs. Fiery yet thoughtful with her pen, the 21-year-old makes music that, like her, can’t be put into a box. On her debut single, “Introducing” on Def Jam, she delivers a melodic manifesto over a speaker-rattling beat brimming with soulful samples and blaring horns. Is she a singer? Is she a rapper? Genia is whomever she wants to be. “I feel like I make music for everybody,” she says. “But mainly for women to feel badass. That was kind of my thing: to make bad bitch music, but also vulnerable music, almost like somebody’s reading my diary.” This raw approach comes from a lifetime of using music as therapy. Growing up in a turbulent household in Victorville, CA, Genia dreamt of escape. Through her grandmother, she found it first in Prince’s Purple Rain, and listening to consummate artists like Beyoncé and Lady Gaga inspired her to forge her own alter ego: a woman who’s as tough as she is creative, who handles her business. She was working at Walmart and studying to be a nurse when Covid hit. Amid the stress, she quit and turned to music. After striking TikTok gold in November 2020 with her version of Deborah Cox’s “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here,” Genia went hard — refining her vocals, writing, and dancing under the wing of producer/engineer Jaycen Joshua over the next two years. Now she’s deep in new music, with plenty more soul-bearing yet savage songwriting and nostalgic production on deck. And like all introductions, Genia’s is just the beginning.
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