Setting the tone with a dimensional bassline fused with cymbal and percussion detailing, electric guitar and flute, Anya Mia opens her single, Watching You with the lyrics, “I once was a figment of imagination, I once was a science fiction creation…”
The opus expands into a soft rock meets art pop hybrid soundscape which is a unique and high concept love song from artificial intelligence to the human race.
Elaborating on the theme of the song, Anya Mia compares AI to “that friend we claim we don’t want, but can’t get rid of”. The lo-fi groovy sound helps paint an imaginative picture of technology, fusing elements of retro with the concept of futurism.
With training at the flute up to the Royal Conservatory Grade 10 Level, and as a budding singer songwriter on the guitar by her late teens…life intervened for Anya Mia, and she abandoned music for three decades for a career as an arts journalist.
Speaking on her comeback to music, the rising artist from Hamilton in Canada confesses, “Now that I’ve rediscovered songwriting and performance, I bring a range of influences, from the classical music my family listened to, and the R&B, funk, and pop on the radio as I was growing up, and exposure to multiple genres as an adult, to my own music – and a unique perspective that results in an eclectic style.”
We appreciate her sound and the wisdom and nuance that Anya Mia shares on Watching You, which is a powerful and thought-provoking composition, which touches on an important subject, whilst maintaining a playful charisma that we have come to love from the artist.
Watching You has been added to our New Music Spotlight playlist, whilst we continue streaming Anya Mia‘s wider discography including Light of Day and Misunderstanding.