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Alessi Rose

Alessi Rose

Alessi Rose is rewriting the rules of what it means to be a confessional pop star. With a deep affinity for diary-like and unforgettably detailed lyrics, the 22-year-old singer/songwriter makes a point of diving headlong into the kind of experiences that reveal secret truths about the nature of love, lust, and longing while embracing an unbridled curiosity that magnifies the raw impact of her music. On her new eight-song EP Voyeur, Alessi delivers a high-concept project that matches her extravagant vision and larger-than-life personality with her most vivid storytelling to date. “With my EP Voyeur, the voyeurism is twofold,” says Alessi. “The audience becomes a voyeur of my innermost thoughts and feelings through the music, but additionally I am a voyeur of myself and my own, sometimes self-sabotaging, decisions. I wanted this EP to feel like the unfiltered version of events that you tell your closest friends, and I feel like the bluntness and stream-of-consciousness lyrics reflect that. I don’t care how I’m perceived because I trust the listener.” A fast-rising phenomenon who’s gearing up to tour North America as support for Tate McRae (and currently opening for Dua Lipa on her UK/European stadium and arena tour), Alessi owes her incredible ascension to a potent mix of unstoppable talent and self-driven work ethic—a quality she’s cultivated her entire life. Growing up in Derby, England, she first unlocked her creative side by writing poetry at age 13. “I was an angsty child and wrote a lot of dark poems, but I was also very confident and loud and obsessed with performing,” Alessi recalls. Within a few years she began turning her poems into songs, tapping into the refined musicality she’d honed by taking piano lessons from age 10 and singing in a church choir for most of her adolescence. Raised on the brooding romanticism of The Cure and The Smiths (thanks to her Italian-born mom) as well as the classic country records favored by her dad, she soon found that her highly introspective songwriting helped her to cope with her obsessive-compulsive disorder. “My brain is messy, and I’ve always battled between what I feel and what’s logical. Writing helped me to deal with my tendency to overthink,” she says. From an early age, songwriting served as a vessel for both self-expression and exploration. “I think it’s amazing how you can feel so tortured and out of control but at the same time so in love,” explains Alessi. “All those feelings battling with each other is always exciting to write about. Unrequited love has always been so inspiring to me.” After finishing high school, Alessi took a gap year in which she worked as a waitress and dedicated all her downtime to her music, including teaching herself to produce her own songs. “My mom knew someone who’d been in a band and had a cracked version of Logic on his 14-year-old iMac,” she says. “It was slow and awful but it served its purpose, and I fell in love with producing.” The following year, she began her studies in English literature while assembling her first collection of songs and making inroads into the music business by methodically reaching out to producers she admired. “I had no way in—the only thing I knew was how to be pushy, so I just DM-ed all the producers behind the songs I loved,” she says. As she simultaneously amassed a major following on social media, Alessi made her debut in June 2023 with “say ur mine”—a self-penned and self-produced track that surpassed 40K views in less than a week. With her debut EP rumination as ritual released in summer 2024, she returned in early 2025 with for your consideration and drastically expanded her global base of superfans, quickly inking her deal with Capitol Records. Made with leading producers like John Hill (Bleachers, Carly Rae Jepsen), Sammy Witte (Harry Styles, SZA), Sam De Jong (Gracie Abrams, Lennon Stella), Voyeur arrives as Alessi’s most fully realized work yet, spotlighting her one-of-a-kind balance of sensitivity and self-assurance with more intensity than ever before. Infusing her songwriting with equal parts pure emotion, irreverent humor, and whip-smart point-of-view, Alessi also brings a broader perspective and unabashed boldness to every facet of her artistry. “Since I moved away from home and started touring, my world has opened up and I’m experiencing things I’ve never experienced before, both good and bad,” she says. True to the thrilling immediacy that’s always defined her music, many of the EP’s songs surfaced from her commitment to documenting her more chaotic experiences in real time. Built on her bright but gritty brand of alt-pop, Voyeur instantly proves the magnetic pull of that subversive oversharing on the EP-opening “Same Mouth”—a guitar-heavy anthem whose carefree energy sharply contrasts its aching frustration. “‘Same Mouth’ is me confronting the hypocrisy of an ambiguous relationship but it’s also about the abandonment of self and the idea that if I’m aware of what I’m getting myself into, then maybe I’m not the victim, and maybe I’m actually in control,” says Alessi. Affirming her exquisite gift for turning pain into pop perfection, Voyeur also offers up the windows-down euphoria of “Take It or Leave It” (a sweetly tender portrait of an excruciating crush) and the sing-along-ready self-deprecation of “Everything Anything” (a real-life tale of a problematic ex-love moving onto her street). One of the EP’s most melancholy moments, “Stella” leans toward the wistful urgency of ’90s indie-rock as Alessi channels the devastating heartache of a friend breakup. On “Dumb Girl,” Voyeur closes out with a slow-building epic that wholly captures the whirlwind of unrequited love while showcasing her singular lyrical sensibilities (from the opening lines: “Tactile and gentle/Could laugh or even cry/Your tongue fits in my mouth/Like it’s by design”). “That’s exactly the kind of off-kilter lyric that I love,” says Alessi. “You hear it and you feel a bit uncomfortable, but to me it’s a direct translation of that feeling of being with someone and knowing they’re just going to go off with someone else as soon as they leave you.” Naming pop visionaries like Kate Bush among her top inspirations, Alessi takes a hands-on role in the visual component of her music, including the lavish use of religious iconography in her hypnotic live show. “I think there’s a strong connection between unrequited love and worship, where it often feels like you’re glorifying someone and hoping for some kind of sign from them but not necessarily getting anything back,” she says. Thanks in part to her growing reputation as a can’t-miss live performer —Alessi recently followed two sold-out UK/European headline tours: each selling-out in the blink of an eye shifting 10,000 tickets in 10minutes, with her first-ever series of US tour dates—a much-buzzed-about run that also sold-out in its entirety in under 10 minutes and included two nights at New York City’s Baby’s All Right and L.A.’s Moroccan Lounge. Now gearing up for an extensive UK/European headline run (including two nights at the iconic O2 Forum Kentish Town after the first rapidly sold-out), Alessi thrives on the intense communion she finds in performing her soul-baring songs directly to her fans—a fast-increasing cohort she frequently connects with via in-person and Zoom-based global hangouts. “I have a super-close relationship with them and always feel like I’m speaking to my best friends, especially since they tend to overshare as much as I do,” she says. “It’s kind of crazy now that the rooms are getting bigger; I don’t know how I’ll keep up with all their gossip. But no matter what I hope my music makes them feel validated—like someone understands what they’re going through, and isn’t afraid to talk about it in a very blunt and open way.”

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Alessi Rose

Alessi Rose is rewriting the rules of what it means to be a confessional pop star. With a deep affinity for diary-like and unforgettably detailed lyrics, the 22-year-old singer/songwriter makes a point of diving headlong into the kind of experiences that reveal secret truths about the nature of love, lust, and longing while embracing an unbridled curiosity that magnifies the raw impact of her music. On her new eight-song EP Voyeur, Alessi delivers a high-concept project that matches her extravagant vision and larger-than-life personality with her most vivid storytelling to date. “With my EP Voyeur, the voyeurism is twofold,” says Alessi. “The audience becomes a voyeur of my innermost thoughts and feelings through the music, but additionally I am a voyeur of myself and my own, sometimes self-sabotaging, decisions. I wanted this EP to feel like the unfiltered version of events that you tell your closest friends, and I feel like the bluntness and stream-of-consciousness lyrics reflect that. I don’t care how I’m perceived because I trust the listener.” A fast-rising phenomenon who’s gearing up to tour North America as support for Tate McRae (and currently opening for Dua Lipa on her UK/European stadium and arena tour), Alessi owes her incredible ascension to a potent mix of unstoppable talent and self-driven work ethic—a quality she’s cultivated her entire life. Growing up in Derby, England, she first unlocked her creative side by writing poetry at age 13. “I was an angsty child and wrote a lot of dark poems, but I was also very confident and loud and obsessed with performing,” Alessi recalls. Within a few years she began turning her poems into songs, tapping into the refined musicality she’d honed by taking piano lessons from age 10 and singing in a church choir for most of her adolescence. Raised on the brooding romanticism of The Cure and The Smiths (thanks to her Italian-born mom) as well as the classic country records favored by her dad, she soon found that her highly introspective songwriting helped her to cope with her obsessive-compulsive disorder. “My brain is messy, and I’ve always battled between what I feel and what’s logical. Writing helped me to deal with my tendency to overthink,” she says. From an early age, songwriting served as a vessel for both self-expression and exploration. “I think it’s amazing how you can feel so tortured and out of control but at the same time so in love,” explains Alessi. “All those feelings battling with each other is always exciting to write about. Unrequited love has always been so inspiring to me.” After finishing high school, Alessi took a gap year in which she worked as a waitress and dedicated all her downtime to her music, including teaching herself to produce her own songs. “My mom knew someone who’d been in a band and had a cracked version of Logic on his 14-year-old iMac,” she says. “It was slow and awful but it served its purpose, and I fell in love with producing.” The following year, she began her studies in English literature while assembling her first collection of songs and making inroads into the music business by methodically reaching out to producers she admired. “I had no way in—the only thing I knew was how to be pushy, so I just DM-ed all the producers behind the songs I loved,” she says. As she simultaneously amassed a major following on social media, Alessi made her debut in June 2023 with “say ur mine”—a self-penned and self-produced track that surpassed 40K views in less than a week. With her debut EP rumination as ritual released in summer 2024, she returned in early 2025 with for your consideration and drastically expanded her global base of superfans, quickly inking her deal with Capitol Records. Made with leading producers like John Hill (Bleachers, Carly Rae Jepsen), Sammy Witte (Harry Styles, SZA), Sam De Jong (Gracie Abrams, Lennon Stella), Voyeur arrives as Alessi’s most fully realized work yet, spotlighting her one-of-a-kind balance of sensitivity and self-assurance with more intensity than ever before. Infusing her songwriting with equal parts pure emotion, irreverent humor, and whip-smart point-of-view, Alessi also brings a broader perspective and unabashed boldness to every facet of her artistry. “Since I moved away from home and started touring, my world has opened up and I’m experiencing things I’ve never experienced before, both good and bad,” she says. True to the thrilling immediacy that’s always defined her music, many of the EP’s songs surfaced from her commitment to documenting her more chaotic experiences in real time. Built on her bright but gritty brand of alt-pop, Voyeur instantly proves the magnetic pull of that subversive oversharing on the EP-opening “Same Mouth”—a guitar-heavy anthem whose carefree energy sharply contrasts its aching frustration. “‘Same Mouth’ is me confronting the hypocrisy of an ambiguous relationship but it’s also about the abandonment of self and the idea that if I’m aware of what I’m getting myself into, then maybe I’m not the victim, and maybe I’m actually in control,” says Alessi. Affirming her exquisite gift for turning pain into pop perfection, Voyeur also offers up the windows-down euphoria of “Take It or Leave It” (a sweetly tender portrait of an excruciating crush) and the sing-along-ready self-deprecation of “Everything Anything” (a real-life tale of a problematic ex-love moving onto her street). One of the EP’s most melancholy moments, “Stella” leans toward the wistful urgency of ’90s indie-rock as Alessi channels the devastating heartache of a friend breakup. On “Dumb Girl,” Voyeur closes out with a slow-building epic that wholly captures the whirlwind of unrequited love while showcasing her singular lyrical sensibilities (from the opening lines: “Tactile and gentle/Could laugh or even cry/Your tongue fits in my mouth/Like it’s by design”). “That’s exactly the kind of off-kilter lyric that I love,” says Alessi. “You hear it and you feel a bit uncomfortable, but to me it’s a direct translation of that feeling of being with someone and knowing they’re just going to go off with someone else as soon as they leave you.” Naming pop visionaries like Kate Bush among her top inspirations, Alessi takes a hands-on role in the visual component of her music, including the lavish use of religious iconography in her hypnotic live show. “I think there’s a strong connection between unrequited love and worship, where it often feels like you’re glorifying someone and hoping for some kind of sign from them but not necessarily getting anything back,” she says. Thanks in part to her growing reputation as a can’t-miss live performer —Alessi recently followed two sold-out UK/European headline tours: each selling-out in the blink of an eye shifting 10,000 tickets in 10minutes, with her first-ever series of US tour dates—a much-buzzed-about run that also sold-out in its entirety in under 10 minutes and included two nights at New York City’s Baby’s All Right and L.A.’s Moroccan Lounge. Now gearing up for an extensive UK/European headline run (including two nights at the iconic O2 Forum Kentish Town after the first rapidly sold-out), Alessi thrives on the intense communion she finds in performing her soul-baring songs directly to her fans—a fast-increasing cohort she frequently connects with via in-person and Zoom-based global hangouts. “I have a super-close relationship with them and always feel like I’m speaking to my best friends, especially since they tend to overshare as much as I do,” she says. “It’s kind of crazy now that the rooms are getting bigger; I don’t know how I’ll keep up with all their gossip. But no matter what I hope my music makes them feel validated—like someone understands what they’re going through, and isn’t afraid to talk about it in a very blunt and open way.”

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