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Seoul-born, US-based singer-songwriter fayaway delivers a delicate yet emotionally potent blow with her latest single, “Tilted Chemistry”, a collaboration with fellow Berklee College of Music student and artist Mark Kang. Co-produced by Kang and Hoh Ray Guang, the track captures the ache and vulnerability of being the only one holding on in a one-sided relationship.
Originally conceived as a songwriting class project, “Tilted Chemistry” blossomed from creative synergy and hard-earned emotional truth. With her tender, nuanced vocal performance and candid lyricism, fayaway paints a vivid portrait of relational imbalance—the kind where love becomes more about endurance than connection.
Musically, the track blends elements of R&B, pop, and alt-jazz, wrapping the listener in shimmering textures and slow-burning production that echoes the emotional fatigue at the song’s core. Kang’s subtle presence as a collaborator adds contrast, while Guang’s production work elevates the arrangement with understated elegance.
“Tilted Chemistry is a song about a draining, one-sided relationship,” fayaway explains. “It shows the duality between the girl who is willing to give her everything and the self-centred boy. This song reveals the complex emotions under a continued toxic relationship – knowing it’s bad but being unable to let go.”
The storytelling is raw and reflective, speaking to anyone who’s ever loved too deeply for someone who couldn’t meet them halfway. It’s this emotional clarity—paired with her ability to seamlessly move between genres—that makes fayaway an emerging artist to watch.
Having grown up immersed in both Korean and American cultures, and currently honing her craft at Berklee, fayaway channels a bicultural perspective that enriches her songwriting. “Tilted Chemistry” is a step forward in a career already rooted in authenticity, and a promising sign of what’s to come.
