Alex Porat is taking down all previous lovers who’ve wasted her time. The Toronto-based singer shares today “Face Like Yours,” the cathartic lead single off her forthcoming crushed! EP, due out June 27. “You’re so original for leaving me on read,” she sings on the guitar-pop track, at once tongue-in-cheek and scathing. “Know you peaked in high school, but it still goes to your head.”
“Face Like Yours” is a “funny take on a bad situationship,” Porat tells PAPER. “It’s about realizing that the energy you’re putting into someone isn’t being met and that they can’t, or don’t care to, do better.”
In the Justin Alexis-directed music video, Porat is shown having dinner opposite Francesco Manella, who appears as her handsome boyfriend. “What a waste, a face like yours,” she sings, as he smirks and flexes in her direction, lacking any self-awareness. “What a shame, you are nothing more than a night to remember, your hand-me-down sweater/ Your future is dry as a desert.”
“I didn’t want to write a sad song for people to cry to because the type of person this is about definitely isn’t worth crying over,” Porat continues. “Instead it’s an upbeat and fun pop track that people can blast, dance to and realize that they deserve way better. If someone can relate to this they deserve financial compensation.”
As the first taste of what’s to come this summer, “Face Like Yours” introduces crushed! as an EP about the rush of diving into someone new — with its many highs and lows. “This EP was inspired by the feelings of meeting my now boyfriend,” she says. “It’s the type of music someone would dance around their room to when they get a text from the person they like.”
Photography: Mariah Hamilton