German-Paraguayan singer-songwriter Laura Brizuela cleans her closet on the latest trap-pop single ‘Nothing Like That’, out 26 January via Embassy of Music. Marrying soulful, sparse melodic hooks in minor key with soulful, free-flowing vocal runs akin to Selena Gomez, Becky G, and Lauren Jauregui, Brizuela puts her satiny voice and introspective lyrics front and centre to remind us of the importance of perseverance when carving out one’s own life, no matter how long and hard the road might be.

“All my life they were trying to make me buy their mindset 

Won’t get me conform don’t need nothing like that 

Take ’em all away, look how far it got me 

Surfing my own wave, better off when I’m me”

For Brizuela, ‘Nothing Like That’ holds a special place. “If I had to describe it in one word, it would be therapy. I wrote it a while ago when I unexpectedly had just moved back into my hometown area and was heavily confronted with my past and memories from my childhood,” she explains the circumstance surrounding the creation. “At the time, I didn’t have anything or anyone in my life that was safe and stable for me, and I was just struggling in every area of my life. Little did I know that stepping back into what I left would challenge me the most but eventually was the missing final piece of the healing process. Writing this song was my way of looking back and communicating what I wished to say for so many years in my life. Releasing this one and opening up that process for everyone who hears it is very special moment for me.”