Most house tracks want to lift you off the ground, but Kenya Grace’s new single, “Mr. Cool,” plants your feet firmly in uncomfortable truths about modern romance.
Grace, the chart-topping “Strangers” songstress and EDM.com Class of 2024 artist, has ironically created a dance anthem about the very romantic emptiness that drives people to dancefloors in the first place. While society celebrates the James Bond fantasy of effortless conquest, she excavates the psychological wasteland underneath with a caustic commentary on hookup culture.
Co-produced with JOYRYDE, the house music virtuoso whose fingerprints have blessed everything from Skrillex’s music to festivals worldwide, “Mr. Cool” deploys a heady house beat as Grace dissects the deceptive games of serial daters with a sensual slink.
Her come-hither vocal delivery carries the weight of someone who’s witnessed this particular brand of emotional carnage firsthand, ripping into the celebrated player archetype with lyrics that pierce through its cultural glamorization: “I bet he’s with somebody, bet she’s half his age / Picked her up at 7, fell in love by 8 / But trust me by tomorrow, he’ll forget her name.”
You can listen to “Mr. Cool” below and find the new release on streaming platforms here.
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