Drawing us in with a psychedelic, immersive guitar soundscape, Kary Sit opens See Me Cry with dimensionality as she sings, “You will never get a chance to say goodbye, you won’t even get a chance to see me cry…”
The opus expands with a melodic riff and percussive clicks as Kary Sit shares a brooding timbre and self-realized lyricism. We immediately connect with the timbre and flow switch-ups from ethereal vocals, to a mid-tempo delivery, and then to an almost high-octane rapped energy.
There is no doubt that Kary Sit is secure in her soul, reinforcing her boundaries and showing us that she is a truly versatile artist. Speaking on the release, and how it all came about, Kary confesses, “They say life is most beautiful when we come full circle. Twenty years ago, I wrote a song called See Me Cry. At the time, it didn’t have its chance to shine; while other projects moved forward, this one waited in the silence. It didn’t quite fit my persona then, and no other artist picked it up. So, it sat. For two decades, I carried this song like a debt I owed to my younger self. Recently, I finally went back for that girl, the young musician still waiting in that studio, and brought her into the present. This release is a collaboration twenty years in the making. It is a merging of who I was then and the woman I have become.”
Kary continues, “I produced this track to honour a promise I made to that younger soul: that her voice mattered, and that I would never leave her behind. The voids are filled, the song is finally finished, and the circle is complete. Dedicated to the parts of us that wait patiently to be found again.”
We learn that the track was produced with Brian Squillace, and recorded at The Smooth Spot in New York. We absolutely love the empowering message of the song, and how relatable it is. We could imagine the song garnering a multitude of sync placements, notably an episode of Emily in Paris.
Kary Sit is a fourth-generation Eurasian pop artist with a distinctly original edge, shaped by years spent mastering the inner architecture of pop as a ghost producer for Top 10 Hollywood talent. Following a breakout era in Japan, highlighted by her What’s Your Fantasy? tour and a defining Shibuya billboard takeover, she became known for a sultry, cinematic strain of electro-pop, marked by stark black-and-white visuals and bold, imaginative storytelling.
We are grateful for her return, and have added See Me Cry to our New Music Spotlight playlist, and our TIMELESS playlist, whilst we continue to stream Kary Sit‘s wider discography, including Asylum, Guilty Pleasure, and Missy Mercy Me.