Alaena is a new grunge/pop artist on the rise. Grunge/pop maybe a new term to the music industry, but you can thank Billie Eilish for that. She may of paved the way for upcoming singer, Alaena, but that means she has to work extra hard to create her own path. “I’m almost a decade older than Billie but I love that we both have the same vibe and visual aesthetic.”
Alaena found her grunge sound thanks to being part of the metal band Winds of Plague. “I knew I wanted to be a solo artist because I had such a thirst for pop music with a good strong melody that I wasn’t getting from metal,” says the eclectic singer. “Grunge pop is something that is naturally in my blood. A lot of it contributes to it from the way I grew up, the things I did in high school, to people and places I had always gravitated towards. Everyone with angst and sadness has a story to go behind it, the only way I felt I could release those feelings was through music.”
The singer lived in Pittsburgh for a period of time. “The band scene was thriving here. There were multiple shows every week and bands everywhere when I used to live there.” The scene is now being saturated by hip-hop and R&B. As she parted ways with Winds of Plague, Alaena felt like she had to start over when she began her solo career. “It was actually pretty tough, I had to start over and acclimate my fan base to the new music I was creating. I lost a lot of fans in the process.” The singer did not lose steam though as she just released her song “I Wanna”. She states, “The song sits in a weird place in my heart because I originally wrote it about a guy I was seeing where we kept throwing mixed signals at each other. When it came time to release the song I had a completely new outlook on it.”
Alaena is ready to forge ahead with new material. “Yes, I am putting out the best music I have released to date, there are new collaborations on the horizon, a music video, and shows all coming soon.”
