Los Angeles based singer-songwriter and actress Bridgit Mendler released her highly anticipated Nemesis EP on November 18, 2016. Upon sharing lead single “Atlantis,” the track hit #2 on Spotify’s Viral Chart, #1 on HypeMachine, and garnered over four million streams across platforms. Bridgit also revealed the official “Atlantis” video with VICE’s Noisey who dubbed it “a masterwork in craft and atmosphere.”
Bridgit Mendler had already released a platinum single (“Ready or Not”), dropped an album that went Top 30 on the Billboard charts and No. 1 on iTunes (Hello My Name Is...), and twice toured the U.S. Yet when she began working on her first studio recording in four years, she was nervous. “I had been performing and promoting for so long that I hadn’t caught up and figured out who I was. I wasn’t the same as the girl who made my debut album.”
She wanted her music to reach a new depth of vulnerability, of transparency—and she knew she had to do this by exploring her personal heartbreak through her love of writing. “Each of my songs,” explains the L.A.-based artist, “would be based on an unfiltered story from my life. This is what I have gone through and this is who I am because of it.”
Nemesis is a four track collection of self-assured and bittersweet relationship songs that entwine pop with hip-hop, alternative R&B, even dancehall. It finds Bridgit confidently bending her voice like a sonic shapeshifter navigating emotional bullets. Penned in the studio with co-producers Book (Mischa Chillak) and Spencer Bastian, the EP sees Bridgit reach a new level of vulnerability and transparency. Bridgit's next single, the soulful, rhythmically tugging “Do You Miss Me at All,” was written in her car: “I was feeling overwhelmed by sadness,” she says. “I just sang out the words and melody at the same time." If her 2012 debut album launched her out of the songwriting gate, Nemesis is the career-changing work that has tested her mettle.
