Rex Laurent’s story begins on the North Shore of Massachusetts, where she grew up surrounded and never imagined leaving. Boston was where she studied, posted her first songs to SoundCloud at 14, and first fell in love with the cycle of creating and sharing music. But one trip to Los Angeles in 2018 shifted her orbit. “I never want to live somewhere cold again,” she says now, with the conviction of someone who found the right backdrop for her vision.

Her influences are the kind that don’t sit neatly together but somehow make sense when filtered through her songwriting. She cites the late-2000s Disney pop boom—falling asleep clutching a CD player loaded with Miley—as formative, but just as formative were the hours spent working through Bach and Chopin. Film looms large too: Jon Brion’s scores for Eternal Sunshine and Requiem for a Dream resonate with the same sense of beauty and unease that runs through her work. And then there’s her self-described obsession with Desperate Housewives, proof of her fascination with character, drama, and layers of meaning hidden in glossy surfaces.

What makes Rex compelling isn’t just the influences, but her way of engaging with them. She dives into smaller disciplines—programming drums, reworking arrangements, practicing instruments, tracing the lineage of her favorite artists—like she’s assembling a puzzle no one else can see. If her earlier years were shaped by trying to follow too much advice, today she’s pared it back to something sharper, more personal: a sound that doesn’t ask for permission, but builds its own logic.

Rex Laurent isn’t just making alternative pop—she’s stitching together the fragments of everything she’s ever loved and lived through, crafting a sonic world where Chopin and Miley can sit side by side.

Listen to her latest “Seller’s Remorse” here: https://too.fm/sellersremorse