Westport-born hiphop creative Uppbeat (real name Finn Costelloe) has teamed up with American TikTok music star Elle Lezza for a new single.
Uppbeat and Elle met earlier in the year via TikTok and quickly developed a close working relationship.
Their delightful, low-pressure single Cigarettes is about sitting on the steps after a night out when you’re young, deeply in love and trying to prove your feelings to that person.
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Uppbeat has gained 3k new followers on Spotify and 10k new listeners since releasing Cigarettes while Elle’s impressive stats reveal 340k followers on TikTok and 40k on Instagram.
“I was blown away by how developed and striking her aesthetic was and when I found her music I instantly became a fan,” said Finn of his new-found partnership with Elle.
“We decided to work on some records and we came up with Cigarettes. We then planned to meet in London and work on the record more and we shot a homemade music video while we were there at the end of last summer.”
Cigarettes has been Track of the Week on RTÉ2FM with Chris and Ciara, has garnered over 40k streams on Spotify, and has reached No. 3 in the Irish iTunes charts.
Stuart Hawkes, who is responsible for music from the likes of Ed Sheeran, Mura Masa and Charli XCX was the engineer.
