Yesterday, you were different from today. And today, you will be different from tomorrow. But at the end of the day, you are always the same person.
And if you agree with that, then you should also agree that you could be anything, even if it’s beyond who you think you are. You could be limitless.
Pardon by Lucky Yu
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Today, Pardon by Lucky Yu featuring Aleiah, is released into the world, transporting listeners to a subtly subversive electronic dreamscape with uplifting, effervescent beats that are as good on a late-night-post-party-but-everyone-is-still-hanging-out-at-your-place playlist, as well as it is blasting through your stereo on a solo drive speeding across an empty 101, offering a blissful escape.
For Lucky Yu, today he exhales his first breath as a musical artist, though, arguably, he’s been preparing for this moment his whole life. Like many of us who took piano lessons as a kid (I started and quit piano lessons at age seven), music struck a chord and became an influential part of our lives. But unlike many of us, he’s come full circle (of fifths) and recreates himself today as someone beyond perhaps what he thought he could be. Flash forward 20-something years later, Lucky Yu becomes friends with Aleiah, a soulful English singer-songwriter, after discovering her amazing cover of Jorja Smith on Youtube and Pardon is born.
Lucky Yu’s debut single introduces himself as a promising newcomer in the indie-electronic pop scene with his lush and polished production and creative collaborations, and I have a feeling this is just the start. Today is his beginning of an unlimited tomorrow, and I’ll be keeping tabs.