Austin Sanders, better known as the artist ASTN, is quickly becoming an artist to watch. The 22-year-old Panama City, Florida native has shown promise with songs like his 2020 single “LA DON’T LOOK GOOD ON U” soaring amongst the ranks. ASTN’s first EP, Tell Your Friends, was released in 2017 with a warm and twinkling welcoming. His next project, Leave Me Before I Love You, dropped in 2019 with more refined R&B beats and smooth vocals. Since then, ASTN has given us Guys Like Me Like Girls Like You, a collection of three singles that further show the young artist’s growth in the pop industry.
With the anticipation of releasing his newest EP later this year, ASTN recently dropped the music video for “LA DON’T LOOK GOOD ON U.” The video, directed by Olivia Shapiro, consists of ASTN being ordered around, pulled in many directions.
“The [music] video is based on being pulled in a bunch of different directions. It’s like obviously, they’re kinda doing all this stuff to you, you’re kinda just sitting there, being pulled in a bunch of different ways, and you just look unhappy…The lyrics in the song aren’t really about the lifestyle I was living. It’s more so the lifestyle of what’s associated with the city… I felt like it was this crazy movie lifestyle, everyone goes out and parties every night, sleeps in late. And just does nothing but live this crazy Hollywood lifestyle. Before I moved here, I felt like people moved to LA and lose themselves. But obviously, now that I’m here it’s a much different perspective. I met some of the best people of my life here”
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ASTN’s most recent single, “eighty five 911,” released earlier this year with the expectation of more single releases dropping soon as well as an EP titled It’s Not That Serious, but with a catch: “I’m not gonna really promote it as an EP. They’re just gonna be songs that were made together, and they’re gonna just find themselves in the same space.” These singles that drop all have a shared theme that all hark back to the name of the EP: don’t take it too seriously.
ASTN’s incorporation of jazz combined with popular R&B and pop styles make it obvious that it’s only a matter of time before he takes the music industry by storm.