ABOUT THE SONG:
“Love Me Too” is about two people learning how to love each other – the part where everything is yet to be discovered, and these two people are heavily invested in their relationship. In Elise Huang‘s perspective, both people need to learn what their love language is. This is the side of the one giving so much and being under looked, saying they should learn how to love them too.
ABOUT ELISE HUANG:
Elise Huang’s dream of being a singer started when she was young. As a kid, she would watch her mom sing with her band, Passage. Her dad used to produce some of the band’s shows as well. She picked up her first guitar at the age of 12, and she learned it with the help of her brother Nathan and her cousin Trey. Since then, she fell in love with music.
It was the year 2016 when she experienced her first breakdown that led to the creation of her first masterpiece, Dear Dream. The song’s honest lyrics and heartfelt melody were first heard by the public when she got the chance to perform it at her debut gig with her brother in 2017. The gig, called 1821, is where her genius would be discovered by Seed Bunye who has been her Creative Director ever since.
After a year, she was able to release her first singles with Warner Music Philippines. Seed managed Elise when she was independent from 2017-2019, up until Sindikato took management of her for a year. A few months later, she signed with MCA Music Philippines’ Island Records.
Throughout her childhood, Elise has been exposed to many different genres thanks to her family’s musical background. This valuable influence has since helped her hone her own musical identity–modern yet still deeply rooted from what her parents used to play when she was young.
For Elise, her music is a reflection of who she is. “I have many interests, and so my music taste is always changing.” Right now, she takes inspiration from the music of H.E.R., Mahalia, IU, UMI, and Tori Kelly. Listening to these artists led her to explore R&B, soul, gospel, and light pop genres for her latest releases.
Her new song, Lonely, is a fruit of these inspirations—a modern pop R&B that is “a middle ground sound between acoustic and alternative R&B pop.” Elise believes that only by exploring and experimenting would she find her sound that both she and her fans could love.
Her evolving musicality is also evident in her songs like Coffee, Won’t Stop, Nights, and In My Heart. Across the genres of pop-jazz fusion, gospel, indie pop, and soul, her musical creativity brings a new and unique touch to a wide range of well-loved genres. But what makes fans entranced by her music are the real stories and emotions that are told—narratives of relatable experiences wrapped in the soothing melodies that are unique to her.
“I want to be a role model to younger people like my little sister. I want to be the type of artist that doesn’t have a picture-perfect Instagram feed or only talks about music. I want people to know that even as an artist I am not any different from them. I still have other interests like coffee, food, or playing video games. I want to be of help to people that struggle with some things I have struggled with in the past, and I will try to do that through my music.”
Elise writes songs that are from personal experiences, regardless if it’s her own or others’. She threads each word from her perspective as she tries to tell what she thinks should be said or done. By telling stories that are based on real and relatable human events, she wishes to communicate to the humanness in her audience—a place within all of us where raw and imperfect emotions reside.
Elise’s authenticity as an artist is never lost in translation as she is present in all aspects of making her music. From the arrangement to music production, and even to its technical considerations, she makes sure that the intent, the message, and the core of her songs would be delivered to her listeners just how she first strung it from her heart.
As a natural-born artist who started writing songs when she was in college, Elise has written a good number of unreleased songs that are yet to be heard by her fans—something that everyone can look forward to.