Mercedess Returns Four Years After Debut With New Single ‘the perfect selfie’

Copenhagen alt-pop artist Mercedess has spent four years away from the album cycle. She is back with a single that trades in the breezy, soulful textures of her debut for something heavier — a track built on layered guitars and vocals that collapses into a bass-driven chorus about the weight of performing yourself online. It is the first music from her second album, and she wrote and co-produced the entire project herself.

“the perfect selfie” starts from a specific image: taking 200 photos and publishing none. The song uses that loop — the compulsive staging, the silence that follows — as a framework for a broader argument about fractured self-esteem in a culture that rewards visibility above everything else. Mercedess frames it without abstraction. The pressure is not metaphorical. It is the phone, the angle, the decision to post or delete.

The production matches the theme. Intimate acoustic guitar opens the track before dense vocal layers accumulate and the arrangement shifts into a dark, low-end-heavy chorus. The contrast between the quiet verses and the weighted chorus mirrors the gap between the curated image and the anxiety behind it. Mercedess co-produced the track, continuing a shift toward full creative control that she describes as essential to reaching what she actually wants to express as an artist.

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Her debut album CASA FANTASIA, released in June 2022, established her internationally. Tracks from that record were picked up by COLORS and Ones To Watch, and her single “Obvious” was named Song of the Week on Danish national radio station P3, becoming one of the most-played tracks on the station that year. She played sold-out shows at Lille Vega in Copenhagen in 2021 and collaborated with Danish artists Goss, Phlake, and Barselona. The four-year gap between that debut and this new single is the longest silence of her career — she first appeared in 2020 with the self-released track “Shy Gangster.”

The single leads into her sophomore album, titled I’d love to be a star, but I’m tired as fuck. Mercedess describes the album as an exploration of ambition, insecurity, and the conflict between wanting recognition and feeling too anxious to pursue it. The title alone signals a tonal shift from the debut — more direct, more confrontational, less dreamy.

One notable absence from the press release: no specific collaborators or outside producers are named for either the single or the album. The emphasis on Mercedess having “full creative control” suggests a deliberate move away from the collaborative model of CASA FANTASIA, which featured production from Vera and songwriting with Goss and Søren Breum. Whether the entire album is self-produced or whether additional credits will surface closer to release remains unclear. The press release also provides no tracklist, no streaming pre-save links, and no specific album release date beyond “later this year.”

“the perfect selfie” was released on April 10 through Virgin Records Nordics. The album I’d love to be a star, but I’m tired as fuck is expected in the second half of 2026. No tour dates or live performances have been announced.

This is Mercedess’s second studio album and her first release since CASA FANTASIA in 2022.

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