{"id":95523,"date":"2026-05-08T15:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=95523"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:35:26","slug":"hanna-andrea-wants-you-to-look-up-as-she-releases-new-music-video-get-off-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2026\/05\/hanna-andrea-wants-you-to-look-up-as-she-releases-new-music-video-get-off-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanna Andr\u00e9a Wants You to Look Up, As She Releases New Music Video ‘Get Off Your Phone’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘Get Off Your Phone’ is the pop wake-up call we didn’t know we needed. The lead single from her forthcoming EP ‘Braveheart’. It’s a pop track that makes its point simply by being too good to ignore. If you find yourself putting down whatever’s in your hand to actually listen, Andr\u00e9a has already won the argument.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For those just arriving to the Hanna Andr\u00e9a universe, she’s a Norwegian-American artist, raised north of the Arctic Circle but equally shaped by the American West, who has been quietly building one of the more distinctive catalogues in contemporary pop since her 2024 debut single ‘Starlight’. She’s a citizen of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, trained at institutions including Interlochen Center for the Arts and Princeton, and someone who has co-written a pop-infused Shakespeare musical (Muse!) that premiered at Lincoln Center and will run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2026. In other words: this is not your average pop act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And ‘Get Off Your Phone’ is not your average pop song. Co-written with Michael Biancaniello, James Conner, Kelsey Gauthier, and Dominique Vellutato. Sonically, the song sits in a brilliant middle space between eras. There’s a late-’90s\/early-2000s Americana edge to it, you can hear the Avril Lavigne DNA in the guitar work, the breezy defiance in the delivery, but it never feels like pastiche. The modern production keeps it rooted in the now, and Andr\u00e9a’s voice, which carries that atmospheric, layered quality she’s been developing across releases, gives the whole thing a cinematic weight that a simpler song wouldn’t sustain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The music video leans into this beautifully. Shot partly through the frame of an iPhone, with the device literally in shot, filming Andr\u00e9a as she sings directly into it, it’s a clever visual conceit that implicates the viewer in the very behaviour the song critiques. We’re watching her on our phones. She knows it. The video knows it. And somehow that self-awareness makes the whole thing funnier and more poignant at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andr\u00e9a has spoken of approaching her music as a storyteller who crafts ‘bodies of work’ rather than standalone singles, and Braveheart already has the feel of a fully realised artistic statement. ‘Get Off Your Phone’ is its most immediate, most pop-facing moment, and it’s the perfect entry point for anyone new to her world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a landscape full of artists making music about disconnection, Andr\u00e9a has made a song that actually reconnects you. That’s the trick. Put the phone down. Press play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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