Alt-pop Artist Emei Returns With New Single ‘Better People to Leave On Read’

Emei is an alt-pop singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. Her articulate lyrics and warm, timeless voice bridges the best of the old and the new.

Emei is an alt-pop singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. Her articulate lyrics and warm, timeless voice bridges the best of the old and the new. After receiving third place on Chinese Idol at 15, Emei began releasing her own music on Chinese platforms and eventually performed on Dancing with the Stars of China. When Covid hit, Emei started releasing new music on American platforms, gaining media coverage on Lyrical Lemonade, Mundane Magazine, and Early Rising. 

In just under 3 months, Emei’s last single, Late to the Party, hit 1.5M streams after a video of her release party hit a collective 4.4M views on Tiktok and Instagram Reels. This landed Late to the Party on the cover of Fresh Finds Pop, on Fresh Finds, Next Gen Singer-Songwriter, NY Pop, and Young & Free.

Her latest release ‘Better People to Leave On Read’ was written in a fit of rage “when an ex-best friend (who made moves on my boyfriend) texted saying she was proud of my success”. 

As the first alt-pop record made with producer, KiNG MALA Rob Auerbach, Better People to Leave on Read has a salt-inspired rage, hard-hitting drums and eye-rolling horns. 

This collaboration makes it the perfect anthem to scream in the car when you wish people would stop wasting your time when there’s just “Better People to Leave On Read”.