2025 is for the girls. Doechii, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan swept the Grammys, and alt-R&B artist Amelia Moore is keeping that momentum with her second mixtape, “he’s still just not that into you!,” released via Republic Records.
Like her peers, Moore’s breakthrough didn’t happen overnight. She entered the music industry at just 17, dropping out of college to chase a dream that few initially believed in. After facing rejection from record labels, she spent six years building her sound, at times questioning whether she should walk away from music altogether. But her deep passion, and the support of friends like her best friend Tylin, kept her grounded.
“After I got dropped from my first record deal and couldn’t get out of bed literally at all for like three months, he was coming over to my house every day, forcing me out of bed to go to the gym with him. We would run to Target and get a camcorder and drive around LA and film a bunch of content together,” Moore shared during a conversation with ECHO and 1824.
“He stuck by me through that whole era where I needed my friends the most, and some of them weren’t really there for me in the way that he was and he’s the best. I owe a lot of me coming out on the other side to friendships like those.”
Fueled by unwavering support and relentless determination, Moore never stopped creating, and eventually, fans found her. As an independent artist, she released lots of music and launched a headline tour, building a loyal following along the way. In 2024, she dropped part one of her mixtape “he’s just not that into you!,” a project that sparked major momentum and caught the attention of Republic Records. Now officially signed to the label, Moore has achieved a milestone her 17-year-old self could have only dreamed of.
This May, she returns with part two: “he’s still just not that into you!,” a mixtape she says is filled with “honesty, lighthearted, silly, me showcasing my personality more in my music.”
Having previously worked with legends like Timbaland, Moore was thrilled to collaborate with producers like Pink Slip and Inverness on this project. “We did this writing camp in Malibu that we were all there together for starting a bunch of ideas in the same room,” Moore explains. “A lot of this project are new songs I’ve been making with new people that I’m really excited to hear what people think just because it’s new energy and finding new people that I love to make music with has been a fun process for me.”
The first taste of the mixtape is her bold new single “f*ck, marry, kill,” which arrived earlier this year. Part of what makes “f*ck, marry, kill,” and for that matter, all of Moore’s music so irresistible are the hooks that she knows work “when I can’t get it out of my own head, when I’m singing it on the way home.”
The track’s visuals are set to be just as memorable with Moore’s signature orange hair as its centerpiece. “I knew I wanted the hair to be a part of the world for this song because hair holds so much meaning. Like, letting your hair down means being vulnerable, but it’s also feeling sexy and comfortable in who you are,” Moore says. “f*ck, marry, kill” is such a emotionally heightened record about feeling so crazy about somebody that you don’t even know what to do with your emotions anymore. And I’m really happy that we were able to get this wig that was literally like so, so, so, so, so long down to the floor for the drama of it all. Cause that’s what that song was for me also. It was just very dramatic cry for help and we needed the long hair to get the emotion across.”
Another standout track on the mixtape is “spelling bee.” “ It’s one of the first songs that I’ve written with my icon, my star, my songwriting hero, Julia Michaels,” Moore praised. “Getting to write with her has been insane. I feel like going into my first couple of sessions with her, I was thinking you were going to write something really vulnerable and emotional. “spelling bee” is just about being horny as hell. It’s just a lighthearted, fun song about kind of being a little scared to say what you want to happen, so you’re gonna spell it out. And I’ve been a fan of Teezo for so long, and it’s like a dream come true to have him on a song with me.”
Of all the songs on the mixtape, Moore is most excited for fans to hear “see through it.” “Sharing a teaser of the song was such an impactful moment for me this past year and I gained so many new followers and listeners from that song,” Moore explained. “I think all of those people that have stuck around for this mix that is going to come out are going to hear it and be like, wait a second, I was there when this came out. This is something that is familiar to me that I’ve heard before. I hope people are gonna freak out about it because I was like freaking out while I was making it.”
The through line that ties the two mixtapes together is Moore’s “doodles and my handwriting in all of the cover arts, which is something that I’ve loved keeping and just making new doodles for.” she said.
She continued, “I have these fruit stickers that I feel like are becoming more and more a part of my brand. Every time I put out a graphic or a piece of content, I’m trying to find ways to put fruit stickers on everything. And I don’t know anybody else that got orange hair, long orange hair with a little baby bang right now. So I’m gonna just stick with that and continue to get creative in releasing what’s coming next in the future,” she joked.
Even after all these years, Moore dreams just as big as she did at 17. In ten years, she hopes to perform at the Super Bowl, “which feels very far away right now,” she admits. “I love to think about my big Super Bowl performance when I’m planning the shows that I’m about to play and kind of like, what is my mini, what is my version of playing the Super Bowl right now?”
Until then, she’s planning to celebrate this milestone with the people who made it possible. “Hopefully I can find somewhere to be with all of my friends and people that I made all of this music with and we can be together and have a couple of drinks and celebrate this music. I’m doing this really cool event at the Brain Dead movie studios in LA where some lucky fans are gonna be able to come and watch all of the trailers with me and watch the actual movie. He’s just not that into you and we’ll have like two little t-shirts and I’ll get to hang out with my girls that have been in LA and supporting me for as long as I can remember.”
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