Your Face (song)

"Your Face"
Single by Wisp
from the EP Pandora
ReleasedApril 4, 2023
Genre
Length3:47
Label
Songwriter(s)Natalie R. Lu
Producer(s)Grayskies
Wisp singles chronology
"Your Face"
(2023) 		"Tangled Dreams"
(2023)
Original cover
Artwork prior to Wisp's signing to Interscope Records
Music video
"Your Face" on YouTube

"Your Face" (stylized in sentence case) is a song by the American musician Wisp, released on April 4, 2023, as her debut single. The production was handled by Grayskies, while the songwriting was handed by Wisp. Natalie Lu later went under the moniker, Wisp, and shifted to making music. Inspired by Whirr, Wisp sang over her friend's beat. The song gained traction on social media platforms.

Classified as a shoegaze song, "Your Face" is driven by a metallic luster of towering guitars. Its lyrics are surrounded around a person that Wisp loved talking to. Following its release, the song went viral on TikTok, which led to her signing to Interscope Records. A music video directed by Nick Vernet and Boni Mata premiered in November 2023, which takes place underwater. The track was later included in her debut extended play (EP) Pandora (2024).

Background and composition

Wisp wrote "Your Face" and sang over a beat by the independent producer Grayskies,[4] found on BeatStars.[5] It has been described as shoegaze,[1] nu gaze[2] and alternative rock.[3] Steffanee Wang of Nylon described the song as having "a banging guitar line and crashing waves of drums and vocals". In a publication by Complex, Wisp described how her long-standing love for listening to music led to her becoming an "active participant" when she recorded "Your Face", the first song she'd ever written, over her friend's instrumental.[3] Wisp exclaimed that she was interested in making music that people would empathize with.[4] "Your Face" is 3 minutes and 47 seconds long. The lyrics of "Your Face" see Wisp singing about someone she liked and situations that may restrain your love.[1] She also stated in an interview with Nylon that, while she wishes to keep the true meaning of the song a secret, she "wrote [it] about someone [she] enjoyed talking to" and that it was about "circumstances that hold you back from expressing your love".[1]

Release and reception

According to Wisp in an interview with Adam Davidson of Flood Magazine, she had explained that she composed the song for enjoyment and that the LA band Juggler served as the inspiration for her decision of posting the song on TikTok.[6] "Your Face" was released on April 4, 2023. It soon went viral on TikTok,[4][7] which it sits over 86 million streams on Spotify as of November 2024.[4] It peaked at number 8 on Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs chart in 2023,[8] marking Wisp's first time in the top 10. The song later culminated at number 7 on the aforementioned chart during the week of March 9, 2024,[9] also appearing at number 24 on the 2024 Year End chart. In the months following its release, Wisp gained a cult following, which led to her signing to Interscope Records.[4][10] "Your Face" was later included as the second track of Wisp's debut extended play (EP), Pandora (2024).[7] In 2025, it was certified gold by the Brazilian Association of Record Producers (ABPD).[11]

Olive Soki-Kavwahirehi of Complex stated that the song "exemplifies all of the winning properties" of shoegaze, and that it "indicate[s] a very promising future for the young artist".[3] Andy Von Pip of Under the Radar called it "a low-key rock song of the summer".[12] While Jonah Krueger of Consequence said the song taps into a fuzzy [feeling] comparable to the gazing itch of a pedal board.[13]

Music video

The official music video for "Your Face" was released on November 21, 2023.[1] It was directed by Boni Mata and Nick Vernet. The video takes place underwater.[4] As described by Steffanee Wang of Nylon, it "includes no faces, just bodies swimming and gliding among swaying seaweed" with "interspersed shots of a figure with a sheet draped over its face".[1]

Credits and personnel

  • Wisp – vocals, songwriting
  • Grayskies – programming, production

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "Your Face"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[11] Gold 20,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Wang, Steffanee (November 21, 2023). "Who Is Wisp, The 19-Year-Old Making Top-Notch Shoegaze?". Nylon. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
  2. ^ a b Ewens, Hannah (January 21, 2025). "Wisp: The new face of nü gaze". Alternative Press. Retrieved June 5, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d Gardner, Alex; Moore, Jacob; Adorney, Sabine; Ong, Patrick; Soki-Kavwahirehi, Olive (September 27, 2023). "Best New Artists". Complex. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Brown, August (November 15, 2024). "Shoegaze rocker Wisp is Gen Z's ambassador for the opaque and brutal—even at rap festivals". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  5. ^ Firth, Abigail (January 16, 2025). "Hype List 2025: Wisp is reinvigorating shoegaze for a new generation". Dork. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  6. ^ Davidson, Adam (July 31, 2025). "Wisp on Bringing Her Musical Fantasy World to Life". Flood Magazine. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  7. ^ a b Rincon, Alessandra. "Wisp's 'Pandora' Is a Vulnerable, Lush, and Necessary Addition to Shoegaze". Ones to Watch. Retrieved March 8, 2025.
  8. ^ "Hot Hard Rock Songs". Billboard. December 16, 2023. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
  9. ^ a b "Hot Hard Rock Songs". Billboard. March 9, 2024. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  10. ^ Enis, Eli (December 18, 2023). "TikTok Has Made Shoegaze Bigger Than Ever". Stereogum. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  11. ^ a b "Brazilian single certifications – Wisp – Your Face" (in Portuguese). Pro-Música Brasil. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  12. ^ Pip, Andy Von (October 31, 2023). "Wisp Releases 'Once then we'll be free'". Under the Radar. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
  13. ^ Krueger, Jonah (March 28, 2024). "CoSign: Wisp Is the Next Leader of the Shoegaze Revival". Consequence. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  14. ^ "Hot Hard Rock Songs Year-End". Billboard. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
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