I wanted my EP to do two things—okay, I wanted it to do a lot of things, but these were two big ones—first, I wanted it to encapsulate all of the feelings surrounding my first year living in New York City, all of the rush of first love, heartbreak, making friends, building connections, finding myself. Secondly, I wanted to play around with sound. I gave myself the creative freedom to let each song sound markedly different—anything was okay, so long as each song sounded like itself.

“Crush” does just that.

It’s a pop-y banger, markedly different from the piano, singer-songwriter-y ballad before it. “Crush” is all about having a crush; the intensity of having a crush, the nervousness, the excitement, the sheer giddiness, the ridiculousness. Crushes are both the most serious and silly things at the same time—so I tried to let the lyrics and production reflect. “The thought of being without is tragic,” is a line I sing in the chorus—objectively, it seems a bit silly, but it’s so true when you’re in that first blush of love and infatuation.

Written by Anjor

Vocals Performed by Anjor

Synthesizer Performed by Christie Connelly

Bass Performed by Thomas Eberhardt

Drums Performed by Peter Kazmierczak