Been playing Paris WYA’s “Crashing With You” all week and it might be the most Friday-night song I’ve heard this year. The chorus grabs you on the first listen, no warm-up needed. By the second pass you’re singing along to a melody you’ve technically heard once. It’s in your head by Saturday morning and still there on Monday. And when I put it on a week later, it dropped me straight back into that night out, who was there, how dumb and fun it all was. Not many songs do that on command.

Her vocal is processed and stacked, so the hook sounds like several of her singing at once. Heavy processing like this usually bugs me because the effects hog the spotlight. Here the layers just make the chorus bigger, and the melody is still what you notice. It’s also a track you want to move to, no thinking required. It isn’t trying to be clever, it’s trying to sound good loud with friends, and it’s good at that.

Small gripe: the gloss is thick enough that this single never shows me her voice without effects. For that I’ll have to go through her other tracks, which is not a bad excuse to keep listening. One line with the effects pulled back would have been nice. Since the whole thing sits under that gloss, I can’t tell how much of the feeling comes from the singing and how much from the stacking. Not a flaw exactly, more a curiosity.

Some context: she was born in Shanghai, grew up across Asia, Europe and the US, and studies at Cornell. Her EPs UNTANGLED (2024) and GLITCH (2025) were digital, synth-heavy pop. MANNEQUIN, out now, is billed as stripped-down and ethereal, about heartbreak, insecurity and grief, so a stacked, danceable chorus like this one is a striking way in.

Paris WYA dance background (ballet, jazz, hip-hop) might explain why it feels made for bodies in motion, but I won’t build a theory on that. Whatever the reason, the beat lands and the chorus does the rest.

Verdict: 8/10 for Friday nights, staying on my playlist. Not deep, doesn’t need to be. Play it loud. Anyone else getting flashbacks from this, or just me?

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