Nashville-based artist-producer Mel Denisse has just shared her latest single "going nowhere". With her new irresistable track the artist takes a haunting leap into the cinematic corners of alt-rock and shoegaze. The song follows her single "Like a Fiend" shared in May.
With "going nowhere", Mel Denisse pens a song inspired by the fantasy world of The Serpent & the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent. The track blurs the line between myth and emotion, reality and survival. It’s the kind of song that feels like a memory you can’t shake, hazy, aching, and quietly powerful. Lyrics including, "I'm so torn / Can't feel a way to mourn / And what point / Is there" show the theme of of someone pushed to the fringes, not broken but watchful, learning to survive in the shadows. Even without knowing the book that inspired it, the emotional narrative stands alone, haunting, cinematic, and emotionally immersive. The song also marks the first time Mel sings in Turkish alongside English, giving an ode to her heritage.
Musically in "going nowhere" Mel builds a world of atmospheric guitars and ghostlike textures wrapped around vocals that drift between vulnerability and defiance. Her voice, ethereal but edged with tension, floats above a wall of melancholy distortion, pulling listeners into themes of emotional exile: moving forward with nowhere to land, holding loyalty close even when it threatens survival, choosing invisibility as armor. The song crashes heavy guitar undertones into delicate melodic lines, yet nothing feels out of place, it all moves like a storm built by design. The music video is moody and dark-hued, painting a perfect picture of the haunting narrative of the song. Mel is shown in a
Mel Denisse continues to carve her own lane, an artist blurring alt-rock grit with atmospheric storytelling. "going nowhere" marks not just another single but a deeper evolution of her world-building songwriting. If this track is a prelude to her upcoming EP, she’s stepping into something bold, dark, and riveting.
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