Rising pop singer-songwriter Mya Angelique invites listeners into the beautifully complicated world of teenage girlhood with her debut EP, paper girls — a seven-track rollercoaster through growing pains, glitter, and the fragile armour of being “put-together”.
Influenced by modern icons like Olivia Rodrigo, Gracie Abrams, and Maisie Peters, Mya Angelique blends introspective storytelling with pop-rock textures and a coming-of-age sensibility that’s both cinematic and uncomfortably honest. With songs written mostly at 15, “paper girls” plays like a diary with a distortion pedal, and listeners will find themselves in the pages.
Tracklist + Highlights
A bittersweet anthem about the ache of growing up too fast, “sixteen” aches with longing to belong — even at the cost of your own identity.
“quick-brush” is a gentle and reflective track that captures the soft erosion of self-worth, wrapped in melodies as subtle as the doubts that inspire them.
The title track “paper girls” is the heart of the EP — a haunting unravelling of perfectionism and identity. Like its title, the song is fragile, folded, and beautifully breakable.
“the boy in the band” is a cheeky and cinematic tale of falling for a musician — equal parts cliché and charm. Think “band crush” meets indie movie soundtrack.
A quiet devastation. “the comedown” explores the emotional crash after fleeting highs, leaving nothing but silence and truth behind.
“teenage girl nationality” is old, funny, and fearless. This track is a sharply written ode to girlhood as both survival and performance — every joke is a defence, every feeling is a revolution.
Closing the EP with a poignant sparkle, “glitter” explores the burden of comparison. She sparkles, but she’s not gold — and that’s the heartbreak of it all.
About Mya Angelique
Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mya Angelique grew up feeling like an outsider in a place that wasn’t small, but always felt close-knit. A classically trained vocalist with over 14 years of experience, she began her musical journey at just six years old at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. Now studying Music Composition at Berklee College of Music, Mya fuses her deep musical roots with a fierce love for storytelling, inspired by everything from early 2000s teen films to artists like Taylor Swift, Avril Lavigne, and Lorde.
With her breakout single “sixteen” and the shimmering follow-up “glitter” already making waves, Paper Girls is a powerful introduction to an artist unafraid to crack open the complexities of coming-of-age — and let them bleed gold (or at least, glitter).
