When we first spoke with LA pop sensation Chelsea Collins a few weeks ago we learned a few things. In no particular order: her house was getting infested by spiders, she had just gotten herself a kitty she named Maxine Martin and her single ‘Hotel Bed’ featuring none other than Swae Lee had just come out.
Only a few weeks have gone by and the spiders in her house have been tamed (hopefully), she got another cat and her latest ‘crack pop’ single “Open Your Mouth’ just came out.
The track is a full on Y2K anthem and we are not mad about it at all!
“My brain is mentally stuck in that era. I don’t really try to look like that or be like that, it just reminds me of my childhood. I grew up with Gwen Stefani, Britney and Taylor Swift, I mean that tells you everything! Taylor taught me songwriting, Britney showed me how to look cool and Gwen influenced my production a lot with all of her edgy and out of the box ideas and arrangements.” She told Mundane last time
““Open Your Mouth” – Chelsea says- came to be one night right around the start of quarantine. My thoughts started to go wild and overthink the one guy that got away. But looking back, I’ve realized that when life gives you lemons, just remember we’re all on a floating rock and nothing is ever as bad as it seems”
The teen-angst energy that defined the era of early 2000s pop music is the spirit of the self-written and co-produced single which tells the story of a past romantic relationship that left her in a constant state of uncertainty, oozing the emotional turmoil you would find in a coming-of-age movie.
Her spellbinding vocals combined with the upbeat electric guitar and drum-lead chorus take listeners to the era of boy bands and Britney, and the transcendent track is just the beginning of Chelsea’s clear path to pop domination.
“‘Open Your Mouth’ is a song I wrote about a guy I was dating who would vanish every two weeks, but then he’d come back and make me feel loved,” says Chelsea on the man who helped bring her newest single to fruition. “I could never read his intentions. It was a sad and confusing situation, so I turned it into something positive that makes me want to jam out like I’m at the Freaky Friday high school talent show.”
The accompanying visualizer is viewers’ ticket into Chelsea’s Y2K wonderland, the scene set with a Mean Girls inspired bedroom filled with pillow fights and troll dolls. We meet her boyfriend, who is incapable of much other than existing as his mouth is quite literally sewn shut. The irony of Chelsea asking him to tell her how he really feels is simply, for a lack of better words – so fetch.
We said it then and we’ll say it again. Brace yourself, because Chelsea is on the rise and it’s not going to be long before she is far above all of us!
