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Starting with a picture—usually from Tumblr
Wisp’s creative spark is almost always an image. For her single “Get Back to Me,” it was Pinterest boards sliding into the Tumblr flower era: rainbow-washed photos, bouquets that bloom and wilt in an endless loop. “I wrote it about two friends in an on-again/off-again thing,” she says. “No matter what the other person did, they would always just come back together.” That growing-wilting cycle became the spine of the track’s big, reverbed swirl.
She’s unbothered by interpretation, too:
“I write in a more broad way so that more people can relate… it’s up to their interpretation.”
If she could soundtrack any film? Grab a wand.
Visuals go deeper than Pinterest. Ask which movie she’d score if time travel were an option, and the answer snaps out fast:
“The Harry Potter franchise, all of the movies. I grew up watching all of them with my dad, and I pull a lot of inspiration from the visuals.”
Beyond “shoegaze”—building the Wisp genre
Early interviews found her leaning on the S-word, but that tag feels limiting now. “I’m trying to stray away from that title,” she says, aiming for a lane where shoegaze textures mingle with electronic shimmer and straight-up pop hooks: “Alt-rock, maybe, but really—labels are whatever.”
Recent obsessions? Hyper-pop and classic pop. “Pop music is something I grew up with and always go back to,” she notes, tipping a cap to Justin Bieber’s Journals and Purpose eras. The goal is music that’s “poppy-like rock” without losing the haze.
Craft, community, and turning a hobby into a job
What started “for fun” shifted once the DMs rolled in. Hearing listeners find solace in her lyrics pushed her to double down: “All of these things I’m putting into music—practicing guitar, taking vocal lessons—make me feel so fulfilled.”
That passion for atmosphere traces straight to Cocteau Twins’ Moon and the Melodies, an album she says “transports me into a different dimension.” It’s the template for her in-progress debut LP, written “like a book, different chapters that tell a story.”
First Coachella feelings
“Surreal,” she grins when asked how it feels to graduate from bedroom demos to one of the world’s biggest stages. Growing the fanbase through genre-hopping is part of the plan: “Exploring different genres will help me build a bigger fan base of people that maybe don’t even know what shoegaze is—and then I can introduce that to them.”
If she could hand a Coachella slot to someone tomorrow, she wouldn’t have to look far: Photographic Memory, the solo project of her own guitarist. “He’s just absolutely amazing,” she says, paying the support forward.
What’s next
Singles are in the rear-view; the story-driven album is on deck. Expect grand visuals, genre fluidity, and plenty of room for listeners to project their own narratives.
For Wisp, that mix—big feelings, bigger sound, no hard genre lines—is exactly the point. And if those rainbow-filtered flowers keep blooming and wilting on repeat, she’s cool with that: there’s life in every cycle.
