Today, Australia-born artist AViVA is releasing her first single for the new year, titled ‘The Saint and The Sinner’ following the release of her sophomore album ‘Volume II’ and her debut novel SELF/LESS.
‘The Saint and The Sinner’ is a heavier song in the cannon of AViVA’s music and is the second single off her upcoming album. The song is a raw, and rock-centric look at the ‘hero complex’ and offers an unfiltered look at the often dismissed darker side of responsibility and what that can mean for the individual.
With a cinematic backdrop, this song sets emotionally vivid lyrics to infectious sing-song melodies and a head-banging rock beat. AViVA’s trademark vocal performances, flaunt her effortless flow and fierce yet vulnerable presence as she gets her message across.
What AViVA has had to say about ‘The Saint and The Sinner’: “I think this song is such a strong song to start the year with because at its core, it’s a song about wanting to be better– to be the best version of yourself, and isn’t that a noble cause to start the new year? I think we all get trapped in our own minds sometimes, comparing ourselves to others. This song is pulling all those elements together and screaming them out into the darkness. Once you say something, does that make it more, or less real?
Since first emerging with her 2017 single “GRRRLS,” AViVA has explored themes of control and isolation by way of her boldly magnetic form of emo-pop/alt-rock, AViVA implores her listeners to be themselves as she encourages them to continue expressing themselves and taking ownership of their uniqueness. A mission that is working, AViVA has amassed over 80 million streams a month and surpasses three billion combined streams to date. Her fans, self-titled ‘OUTSiDERS’ relate to her emotional lyrics and find power in her songs as she explores the challenges of friendship and feelings of isolation and the self-empowerment that comes from loving yourself for who you are. AViVA’s music speaks a powerful message about taking ownership of labels, and this is explored even more in her debut YA novel SELF/LESS (Pan Macmillan Available now.)
A multidisciplinary artist, AViVA has just released her debut novel SELF/LESS via Macmillan on this past month. Set within a closed society in which all forms of self-expression and creativity are outlawed, the book follows its 17-year-old protagonist Teddy as she rebels against her upbringing and discovers a secret world beneath the walled-in city where she was raised. According to AViVA, SELF/LESS fulfils a longtime mission of creating her own distinct multiverse that seamlessly merges music and literature– Her two passions.