“Ya No Es Lo Mismo” (BRATTY song) – Queen City Sounds and Art

Mexican indie pop phenom BRATTY released her new album TR3S on November 3, 2023 via Universal Music Mexico. Her single, co-written with fellow Mexican singer/songwriter Billy Miamor, “Ya No Es Lo Mismo,” which roughly translates into English as “It’s Just Not The Same,” is a bittersweet and melancholic song that examines the grief and confusion that happens when you feel like your once strong connection to a loved one is fading and is now shadow of what once added a layer of uplift to your life, a feeling that you both shared. In BRATTY’s vocals there is a poignancy to that sense of loss that is palpable. Sonically its reminiscent of chillwave artists of the early 2010s and seems to tap a bit into the 80s New Wave synth pop for the emotional and musical resonance but BRATTY’s vocals lend it a grounded quality that gives it an immediacy that’s impossible to resist. The music video shows BRATTY walking about a dark, fantastical landscape of masked figures with symbols on their faces like they resemble some secret code that once unlocked might lead to her figuring out what went wrong but in the end BRATTY shows us that sometimes it’s better to accept that mystery, mourn it and move on. Watch the video for “Ya No Es Lo Mismo” on YouTube and connect with BRATTY at the links below.