Mila V, a Dutch filmmaker-turned-musician, has released her new track “S.N.C.L.” (Smile Now, Cry Later). Mila V’s latest effort, the follow-up to her first EP “The Craze,” is a rave-ready narrative of self-redemption about briefly accepting your own demise. The new self-produced single, which combines breakbeat, electro, techno, and pop vocals, has a dark and unholy air as Mila V releases “the demons inside of me” in her spiral of chaos and hedonism.
“S.N.C.L.” was produced by Mila V herself, and it continues her musical career after she began as a multimedia artist and filmmaker. Mila V arrived to London in 2013 to study cinema and photography at Central Saint Martins, but she soon began composing music to match her pictures and realised that music was at the heart of her eccentric universe. She then began collecting analogue synthesisers and sampling them before incorporating her own voice, heavily influenced by her love of rave culture and the spiritual feeling that partying delivers.
Explaining the inspiration behind the single, Mila V says – “Smile Now, Cry Later is about a battle of feminine and masculine energy within myself and with a partner that feels the need to rise above. It’s kind of a fuck you and an act of giving up on a hopeless situation, i’m just going to chase something hedonistic now and deal with the repercussions later because theres nothing left to give. Kind of embracing your own downfall for a bit. Letting the demon out in order to overcome it.”
Mila V’s music has been described as “emotional acid” by publications such as The Face, i-D, and Metal Magazine, and she continues to carve out her own universe that emits rebellious club energy. Her carefree parents (her father was a hippy and her mother a lover of music and leopard print) pushed her to never follow the herd, and this is mirrored in her own musical interests, which include musicians such as JASSS, FKA Twigs, and mysterious multi-instrumentalist and producer Yves Tumor.
Mila V regards Serbian singer Marina Abramovi and her drive to push her art to extremes as a big inspiration, and it’s this fusion of interests spanning art, fashion, music, and cinema that has built her all-encompassing realm of self-expression. Mila V is an artist in every sense of the word; keep tuned for more music from her, as well as a music video for “S.N.C.L.”