“IRL” is an upbeat daydream of a song that ruminates on the tumultuous year that was 2020 and the people that have brightened Stephanie’s year along the way.
The self directed, edited and produced music video is a celebration of those friendships and people as Stephanie sources footage from loved ones around the globe and compiles those memories into a scrapbook of the people she loves doing the things that make them happy.
The video brings together everyone from Stephanie’s mom to childhood friends to active YouTubers AmandaRachLee and urmomashley to her growing Twitch community 39Daph, Irenealing, igumdrop, her Twitch mods and many more. The video will be in support of GlobalGiving’s Coronavirus Relief Fund to support those around the world battling COVID on the front lines.
About AM:PM
‘AM:PM’ is a collection of light hearted daydreams, afternoon ruinations and solemn midnight queries that have passed through budding young artist Stephanie Poetri’s vibrant and ever active creative mind over the past year and a half. In her debut EP, Stephanie opens up the safe haven of her mind to her fans and invites them into her thoughts, hopes, dreams, hesitations, and dreams. The flow of the tracklist represents the duality between the hopeful, energized, and light emotions that can arise during the morning contrasted with the reflective and sometimes melancholy tone of the evening and the tracklisting is arranged to bring fans through the sonic journey from day to night.
In the focus single of the EP, “Paranoia”, Stephanie lets her darkest emotions and deepest fears settle to the surface as she writes about how your emotions can eat you alive. Speaking on the track Stephanie says “it’s basically about when everything is going so well, too well that you’re just waiting for the moment it doesn’t and that ends up being the issue just being too in your head”. The production on the song echoes the sentiment of living in your head with the eerily haunting sound of the clock ticking at the forefront of the song. The track was produced by frequent collaborators Wes Singerman (Kendrick Lamar, Olivia O’Brian) and Taylor Dexter (Olivia O’Brian) as well as Heavy Mellow (Halsey, Jhene Aiko, Kid Cudi).
