Chelsea Cutler

Chelsea Cutler chooses her words very carefully. The Platinum singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and engineer mulls over what she says and, ultimately, sings with a novelist’s attention-to-detail. When she recounts a rush of anxiety, relives memories of dorm life madness, or celebrates the quiet moments of sipping coffee and reading as a young-twenty-something, she does so with almost pinpoint precision. It’s impossible to simply listen to one of her songs—instead, you reside in it with her. Generating over three billion streams, selling out worldwide tours, earning unanimous tastemaker praise, she knows exactly what she wants to say on her third full-length album Stellaria [2023], released on October 13 [Mercury Records/Republic Records].

“I’m heavily empathetic, observant, and sensitive,” she says. “I translate those qualities into my songwriting by trying to articulate emotion clearly. With this album, I challenged myself to be picky with my words. In colloquial conversation, people say things that are maybe 88% of what they actually mean. I tried to be 100% deliberate with my lyrics on this.”

If you want to know what’s on her mind, just listen to her music.

Since 2017, intimate candor has defined her artistry. Following the Gold-Certified fan favorite “Your Shirt,” she captivated with acclaimed albums, How To Be Human [2020] and When I Close My Eyes [2021]. She also teamed up with Jeremy Zucker on the collaborative brent EP [2019] and brent ii EP [2021], yielding the Platinum-Certified “you were good to me” and Gold-Certified “better off.” Sold out tours followed as she also lent her voice to tracks with Quinn XCII, Louis The Child, The Band CAMINO, and Noah Kahan, among others. Beyond acclaim from Billboard, Variety, Wall Street Journal, NPR, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, E! News, UPROXX, Consequence, Refinery29, HYPEBAE, and L'Officiel, she performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Today, to name a few.