Unlike Pluto

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Unlike Pluto
Birth nameArmond Arabshahi
Born (1991-06-03) June 3, 1991 (age 32)
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
OriginLos Angeles, California, USA
GenresElectronic rock, Indie rock, Alternative, Rock, Alternative pop, Metal, Grunge
Instrument(s)
Years active2013–present
Labels
Websitehttps://unlikepluto.com/

Armond Arabshahi (ɑr-mawnd airab-shɑh-hee), known by his stage name Unlike Pluto, is an independent Persian American singer, songwriter, music producer, and former DJ. Armond is mainly known for his most popular song "Everything Black", released under the record label Monstercat in 2017, which he produced with Philadelphia-based vocalist and DJ Mike Taylor [1]. The song currently, as of May 2024, has over 308 million streams on Spotify and almost one billion views on the official YouTube lyric video [2]. It achieved Gold certification in Canada on June 6, 2021, [3] and again in the USA on April 26, 2024 [4]. He is also known for his Pluto Tapes series of albums, a project he started on May 30, 2018 as a fun, creative outlet where he challenges himself to release one song per week, experimenting with different genres and developing his style. Besides the Pluto Tapes, he also has a side project called Why Mona with one of his long-time best friend's Joanna Jones, an actress and singer who plays in Broadway's musical Hamilton, and features as a vocalist in multiple Unlike Pluto songs. Together, the pair create original singles written by Joanna, in the genre of electronic indie pop, and covers of old school classics with his production and her "Amy Winehouse-like" vocals. Another side project of his is Like Saturn, the name being a clever play off of Unlike Pluto, which is another fun, creative outlet where he produces relaxing, emotional, Lofi instrumentals based off of his love for the genre. Similar to the Pluto Tapes, he releases a new song every week then has them repackaged into albums.

Background[edit]

Armond began teaching himself how to play piano at the age of 5, then later on also taught himself how to play guitar and drums. At some point when he was still young, he was even taught how to play clarinet in school. His skill for learning musical instruments and obsession with music led him to want to create it; so by age 13, Armond decided he wanted to produce music as his career, and thus began navigating different genres of music based on what inspired him and loved listening to, such as, System of a Down, Chevelle, Incubus, Gorillaz, Radiohead, Linkin Park, Sublime, Simon & Garfunkel, Underoath, and many more. He also claimed to be inspired by the mixtapes many rappers would hand out on the streets of Atlanta, and by age 18, he randomly came up with the name Unlike Pluto, which he had no real meaning behind [5]. Despite being in the "emo band scene" since he was 15 and loving the rock, metal, screamo, and alternative rock genres, he ultimately fell in love with EDM (electronic dance music) after hearing the 2010 remix of Bring Me the Horizon's "Sleep with One Eye Open" by Tek-One, [6] and was amazed by the possibilities of electronic music.

Once Armond graduated high school, he went to Georgia State University and loved it there, enjoying creating a multitude of demos in his dorm, whilst still being academically focused on doing well for his education. After about a year and a half at Georgia State, he transferred to Emory University in Georgia, where he eventually graduated in the class of 2013 as a Biology major. During his time at Emory, he enjoyed producing multiple styles of EDM, such as dubstep, house, trap, etc., and eventually independently released his first ever studio album We Are Plutonians on March 12, 2013, with some of the songs featuring his childhood best friend Vafa Sobhani, who is still his co-writer to this day and has been ever since then [7]. At this time, he also had a single called "Bollywood Summer" that the label No Copyright Sounds (NCS) promoted on their SoundCloud, which has since been deleted by them due to it being a bootleg, despite its popularity. Shortly after graduating, he immediately set out looking for better opportunities and support to officially begin his music career full-time and fulfill his musical dreams. So, Armond moved out of his hometown Atlanta to Los Angeles and lived with his older sister Mona, who had already went there two years prior, and eventually appeared at his first concert in August 2013, playing his own songs alongside multiple other artists.

Early Career[edit]

By 2014, Armond's sister had moved out and he started his career creating and releasing bootleg remixes on his SoundCloud, with most of them having to be deleted or private, except his remix of Diplo's "Revolution", which eventually lost its bootleg status as it got very popular and was picked up by the label Mad Decent, founded by Diplo, after they saw the success his remix brought on. It achieved him a Hulu commercial that features the remix and currently 34.3 million plays on SoundCloud, kickstarting his career. In 2015, Armond started working with Mad Decent more as he would release two digital A-side and B-side records with Kickraux under the label, called "Palace" and "Tew", with "Palace" currently achieving over 2.2 million plays on SoundCloud. He released a few more remixes independently until mid 2016, where he released the single "Waiting For You" [8] under the label Monstercat, which currently has over 3.8 million plays on SoundCloud, with his long-time friend Joanna Jones, a singer and actress currently known for her performance in the musical Hamilton on Broadway. Then, after two more remixes released under Ultra Records and Spinnin' Records, he would confide in Mad Decent and Monstercat again to find multiple talented singers and writers to produce music with before he even revealed his voice. With these singers, he released a single called "Found You" featuring Michelle Buzz [9] and two more A-side and B-side records named "Soul" featuring Q'AILA and "Show Me Love" featuring Michelle Buzz under Mad Decent, and two singles called "Searching for You" featuring Karra & Eric Zayne [10], and "Someone New" featuring Desi Valentine under Monstercat. At this point, he had already accomplished over 20 million plays on his SoundCloud overall, was included in Billboard's "Dance artists to watch" article [11], and began performing at concerts again, touring at multiple music festivals around the world, such as Ultra Music Festival, Bestival, Fvded In The Park, and HARD Summer Music Festival, where he would play his own remixes and songs [12]. By early 2017, he did one more official remix as he looked for an independent label to aid him, and found Lowly Palace (Lowly), whose parent label is Trap Nation. With them, Armond revealed his vocals for the first time with his single "Worst In Me", released on February 21, 2017 [13]. After that, he paired up with Monstercat again and released the singles "Sweet" featuring Mister Blonde [14] and "Everything Black" featuring Mike Taylor [15], with "Everything Black" very quickly becoming his most famous song, and still is with two gold certifications in 2021 and 2024. Due to its success, he announced a tour for the song after its release in March, where he would play the song alongside his others at large festivals including Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, and EUPHORIA [13]. The song was not only popular in the music industry, but also in the gaming community, as thousands of streamers played it as one of their songs for background music in their livestreams on the streaming platform Twitch. The song also plays in the competitive, multiplayer vehicular soccer game Rocket League.

In late 2017, the producer gradually and artfully combined some of his favorite genres together, like alternative rock, rock, pop, and indie rock, alongside his electronic background. This created a unique range of electronic/alternative rock and alternative pop, with an emotional, meaningful twist that stands out as a "new genre" of his own. This intrigued many people in his past and gained the interest of not only new fans, but also previous ones. With Lowly Palace again, he started to make this transition known with the single "Let It Bleed" featuring Cristina Gatti [16], and a cover of TLC's "No Scrubs" with Joanna Jones, which did incredibly well, going viral across multiple platforms and currently has 35 millions views on YouTube [17]. Seeing the success he had every time he produced with Joanna and being a good friend of his, Armond decided to start up a side project called Why Mona, six months after "No Scrubs", where he started out producing covers of old school classics with her vocals, then eventually original singles that she would write. When he announced the project, they released a cover of Queen's "We Will Rock You" the same day, August 11, 2017.

However, despite the massive amount of progress in his career he's made thus far and the fun times he had, Armond ultimately decided he wanted to leave EDM behind him as he noticed his success lessened and became harder to maintain/gain with the changing environment surrounding EDM. He wanted to move past the genre, dive more into his creative desires, and experiment with his music style, eventually settling with and signing a recording contract under the, now former, independent label and artist management company Heroic Recordings (Heroic/Heroic Music Group). So, by November 2017, when he released another single with his vocals called "I Need A Win" [18] under Heroic, the transition in music genre was clear despite still having an electronic influence in his songs. In an interview with Catherine Zhang in April 2017 [6], Armond explains:

"In 2011, the electronic music scene was still pretty new. You could just make a random beat and release it on Soundcloud by yourself, and just email a shit ton of blogs. Now it's not like that anymore. Now you need connections, you need to have a name for yourself before you even hit up these blogs. I will probably go crazy if I only do EDM for the rest of my life. That being said, there are lots of things to do in EDM. You can combine any genre you want..."

He stopped touring in mid 2018 after releasing two more singles called "Nothing Wrong With Me" and "Fade All My Life", with his last festival being at the Shaky Beats Festival from May 11 - May 13, 2018 [19].

Mid Career[edit]

Armond often found himself sticking out of the crowd, which is a theme that carried over into his new music, as the majority of his songs are lyrically and musically dark, depressing and/or deeply impactful in many relatable ways to his ever-growing and loyal fanbase. This is eventually what led his name to gain meaning, since the planet Pluto became a "dwarf planet" and he viewed himself as an outcast, he compared himself to the planet which matched his style of music. He made multiple digital A-side and B-side records under Heroic, where he showed his new, more apparent style of alternative rock, screamo, grunge, emo, indie rock, and electronic inspired music. In the midst of these records, he would go on to eagerly start his new project "Pluto Tapes" under Heroic on May 30, 2018, alongside the first Pluto Tape release "Run, Bobby, Run". The project was made so he could release hundreds of his creative song ideas as often as possible and explore with his style in a way he never thought of before. He released songs weekly, and a lot of the time it was a stress reliever and a fun way for him to make new, unique music, keeping his inspiration up as well as being a welcome challenge. Since the project was made, his fanbase grew immensely once again, and formed into the tightly knit community it is today that he interacts with often. Unlike Pluto is an emerging force in the space he's carved out for himself, with his talent and unique style, characterized by his meaningful songwriting and distinctive voice. He started to have a lot of success once again, but in the way he wanted to the most, and put out three Pluto Tape albums, or volumes, within the year 2019 all under Heroic [20]. In his words:

"The Pluto Tapes started as an experiment for me to release more music - I wanted to see what it would be like to release a song every week. I start a new song idea every day. A lot of those don't even make the cut, but it gets my creativity flowing. The Pluto Tapes have now become my outlet to push my creative boundaries and challenge myself."

Once a certain amount of songs were released, they would be repackaged into a volume before beginning the next one with the same process. Each volume was different, but still had the same recognizable style that is Unlike Pluto, progressively getting much more away from the EDM light and clearly showing an improvement in his production and quality as each new song was consistently released. He began to show himself more in the song covers and with music videos by Pluto Tapes: Volume 2, displaying more professional advertising and comfort promoting himself. However, his contract with Heroic was short lived, and he went back to being an independent musician in late 2019, not wanting to be under any labels or artist management anymore. Before he broke away from Heroic though, Armond released a single under the independent label NIGHT MODE called "Everything You Need" on November 29th, 2019, where he stepped back into his classic EDM production for the house style song [21], and an EP under Heroic called life in minor on November 15, 2019 [22]. Pluto Tapes also came to a close and he had a hiatus, or break, of no Unlike Pluto releases after his departure, during which, he also started his side project "Like Saturn" on February 14, 2020 alongside the release of the song "All Alone".

Late Career and Current[edit]

His hiatus lasted from November 2019 to March 2020, where he came back with an independently released single called "Life in A Hole" [23]. Breaking his silence, Armond explains the song:

"'Life in a Hole' is a song I made in an AirBnb in Atlanta with two of my best friends and co-writers. It's an upbeat melodic song with Drum and Bass influence about what it feels like to climb out of rock bottom. During that time we were listening to a lot of 90's and mid-2000's drum and bass, so we took those influences along with my alternative rock style juxtaposing a unique sound. I just want to keep experimenting with music with high energy and lyrics that people can relate to, because that's what music is all about for me."

Because of his love for and success of Pluto Tapes though, he didn't stop releasing weekly and evolving his style once he returned, and, similar to the project, had a planned amount of songs he would release and repackage into albums, however just not apart of the Pluto Tapes. His comeback was big despite not continuing the project, especially with his once again evolved style, which his loyal fans, along with new ones, were thrilled by with his exciting diversity [24]. Armond went on to make several albums varying in different genres, but still his "own", over the course of 2020-2022, garnering more attention and fans. He had many songs go viral, such as "8 Legged Dreams" and "Rose Colored Lenses", which both came out in 2020 on separate albums. By 2023, Armond started to shift a lot more into an alternative/electronic rock and rock style as he needed consistency to see more success, rather than making different kinds of songs each release, during and after his fifth album Cherry Blossom Nightmare. "As they Bloom" became quite popular from this album, and amassed over 1.1 millions views on YouTube, and over 5 million streams on Spotify. He also released a vinyl for the album on November 2, 2023, over a year after the album's release [25]. He eventually did find a solid place in alternative rock, rock, and metal, lessened the frequency of releases to every other week, and soon every month when releasing the songs for his sixth album, Dizzy Bezerko. He wanted to spend more time on his songs to improve the writing and quality, as he simply couldn't if he kept releasing weekly, which also began to finally burn him out. Fortunately though, he had two songs do well on this album as well, with "Guts" gaining almost one million views on YouTube, and "Rip Me Apart" gaining over 700k streams on Spotify.

Pluto Tapes did not end permanently however, as in November 2023, in the midst of him releasing songs for his upcoming album in June 2024, he announced the projects return alongside a new Pluto Tape release called "Smile on my Face" only on YouTube [26]. In the description, he explains that he has a lot of leftover songs that Heroic supposedly did not deem worthy of release on Spotify when he was still signed under them, so he wants to bring the project back, especially as he still loves it and creating these fun songs. He plans on releasing the new Pluto Tapes only on YouTube, before being repackaged into the fourth volume and released on all platforms around mid to late July 2024. This also brings upon the opportunities of keeping the fans who love the weekly releases fulfilled, and having the songs act as fillers in between his monthly releases. It already is proving successful and well-liked, as the songs get over 10k views on YouTube after just one day of being released.

Currently in 2024, alongside the weekly Pluto Tape releases, Armond continues to release more songs every month for the two albums he has planned for the year, and hopefully will release another special collaboration album that is yet to be revealed. He explains this, and more, in a YouTube video he uploaded on January 11, 2024, titled "my plans for 2024 and music" [27]. The songs are already doing quite well too, gaining over 100k streams of traction on Spotify just four to five days after being released. In the video, Armond has also announced the release of his new manga, called Dada Immortal [28], which went through a long trial and error process for over two years. The manga was inspired by his love for writing supernatural style stories and newfound love for Japanese anime and manga, which started around 2021-2022. He is publishing independently under the name "Nada Nada" with his friend and graphic designer Protski [29], who makes the art for Unlike Pluto, and Protski's wife, Gabi. Armond also released a special cover with Sumerian Records, for the "American Psycho" comic series soundtrack, of Eurythimic's "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", which they titled "Sweet Dreams", that both him and Joanna sang together [30]. He also had his first release on NCS with the single "Hollow" on April 12, 2024 [31].

Why Mona[edit]

In August 2017, Armond announced a new side project called Why Mona with one of his best friend's Joanna Jones and released a cover of Queen's song "We Will Rock You" the same day [32]. The name was created based off of his older sister's name, Mona, and the pair started out releasing covers sung by Joanna and produced by Armond with his unique electronic rock style, before transitioning to just making originals in the style of electronic indie pop, written and sung by Joanna. Joanna is a singer and actress who hails from Broadway, where she's currently starring in the roles of Maria Reynolds and Peggy Schuyler in the critically acclaimed Broadway hit musical Hamilton.

In 2019 and again in 2022, the duo's cover of "Wannabe" by Spice Girls went viral on TikTok, amassing over 10 million unique video creations by users on the platform [33]. In 2020, they were releasing singles monthly before taking a two year hiatus and returning in 2022 and 2023. In 2021, Dell computers released an ad that featured their original track "Rabbit Hole", which introduced a lot of viewers to this song and group [34]. Despite only putting out three singles in 2022 and clearly slowing down in releases, Joanna was still active on the YouTube channel and continued to perform multiple live covers of different songs, until they released another cover together of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill (Deal With God)" on August 5, 2022, before once again going inactive until June 30, 2023, releasing another single named "Dollhouse". Afterwards, Armond and Joanna made multiple demos, and even two demo remixes of their song "forest green" and Unlike Pluto and Why Mona collab song "Quintana Roo", that they published only on the YouTube channel. They have since been on a hiatus.

Like Saturn[edit]

In 2020, Armond began another side project called Like Saturn, a name that plays off of his stage name, derived from his love of the Lofi genre where he makes his own version of chill, emotional Lofi. The songs require low effort, are fun to make, and another way for him to create freely. He does weekly releases with this project as well that he repackages into albums, and continues to do so consistently into 2024 [35]. He mainly works on this project alone, but also has help from his significant other with song names, album names, song ideas, and sometimes even with the creative process of songs, who he has not disclosed of right now.

Discography[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Title Album details
We Are Plutonians [36]
  • Released: March 12, 2013
  • Label: Self-released
Pluto Tapes: Volume 1 [37]
  • Released: January 25, 2019
  • Label: Heroic Recordings
Pluto Tapes: Volume 2 [38]
  • Released: April 19, 2019
  • Label: Heroic Recordings
Pluto Tapes: Volume 3 [39]
  • Released: August 1, 2019
  • Label: Heroic Recordings
Messy Mind [40]
  • Released: August 19, 2020
  • Label: Self-released
Technicolor Daydream [41]
  • Released: April 23, 2021
  • Label: Self-released
Loud Fantasy, Quiet Reality [42]
  • Released: November 5, 2021
  • Label: Self-released
Pixelated Oblivion [43]
  • Released: May 27, 2022
  • Label: Self-released
Cherry Blossom Nightmare [44]
  • Released: November 18, 2022
  • Label: Self-released
Dizzy Bezerko [45]
  • Released: August 25, 2023
  • Label: Self-released

Extended Plays (EPs)[edit]

Title Album details
Life In Minor [46]
  • Released: November 15, 2019
  • Label: Heroic Recordings

Singles[edit]

Title Year Album
"Bollywood Summer" 2013 Non-album single
"Jacque Sparrow" (featuring Vafa Sobhani) We Are Plutonians
"Suicide Monster"
"Run Maggie Run" (featuring Vafa Sobhani)
"The Disarray"
"Girl, Walk This Plank" (featuring Vafa Sobhani)
"Write On Bathroom Walls"
"Ye Scallywag"
"Sky Drop"
"Broken Bagpipes"
"Icicle Engineer"
"Newfinland" (featuring Vafa Sobhani)
"Dwarf Planet"
"Nile"
"Dinosauria"
"Turn Around" (featuring Vafa Sobhani)
"No Oxygen"
"Gentle Creatures"
"No Inspiration"
"Rumpel"
"Robots, They Are"
"Snule" 2014 Non-album singles
"Fud"
"Palace" (with Kickraux) 2015 A-side and B-side
"Tew" (with Kickraux)
"Show Me Love" (featuring Michelle Buzz) 2016 Show Me Love (A-side and B-side)
"Soul" (featuring Q'AILA)
"Waiting for You" (featuring Joanna Jones) Non-album singles
"Searching for You" (featuring Karra and Eric Zayne)
"Someone New" (featuring Desi Valentine)
"Found You" (featuring Michelle Buzz)
"Worst in Me" 2017
"Everything Black" (featuring Mike Taylor)
"No Scrubs" (featuring Joanna Jones)
"Sweet" (featuring Mister Blonde)
"Let It Bleed" (featuring Cristina Gatti)
"I Need A Win"
"Nothing Wrong With Me"
"Fade All My Life" 2018
"Where Is My Mind?" (Cover)
"Helena" (Cover)
"Late Bloomer" A-side and B-side
"I Tried Getting High"
"WHY" Fake Smiles, Real Memories (A-side and B-side)
"JOLT"
"Ladida" Bitter Paradise (A-side and B-side)
"Now I Don't Care"
"Closure (Year 09)" Lost Losers Club (A-side and B-side)
"Dearly Departed"
"Dollar For Your Sadness" Pluto Tapes: Volume 1
"Don't Know What to Say"
"First Generation"
"Canada"
"Unless It Happens To You"
"Ethel"
"Western Love"
"Look At Me"
"Playground"
"I Can Be Louder"
"Death Of Me"
"Cruel"
"No Innocence"
"No Goodbyes"
"Run Bobby Run"
"Mosh Pit"
"Under The Lights"
"Problems"
"Burn After Writing"
"Pumpkin Factory" Non-album singles
"Scrooge Syndrome"
"Riptide" 2019 Pluto Tapes: Volume 2
"Villain Of My Own Story"
"Adios"
"No Rainbows In The Desert"
"Illusion"
"Wishing Well"
"Misdiagnosed"
"Dosage"
"Yes Offense"
"Destroy, Build, Destroy"
"Halley's Comet"
"New Life, Who Dis?"
"Closed Loop"
"Pumpkin Factory 2" Non-album Single
"Oh Raven (Sing Me A Happy Song)" Pluto Tapes: Volume 3
"Revenge, And a Little More"
"Sin Circus"
"Brain, Brain, Go Away"
"Not Today"
"Everything About Nothing"
"Damage Control"
"A Million Voices"
"Night Light"
"No Debate"
"Coffee Stains" Life in Minor (EP)
"Death In Paradise"
"Silver Screen Life"
"Stay and Decay"
"Sanity"
"Crocodile Tears"
"Everything You Need" Non-album singles
"Life in A Hole" 2020
"Crawling"
"The Underground" (with 8 Graves)
"Pumpkin Factory 3"
"8 Legged Dreams" Messy Mind
"Shadow"
"Starlight"
"That's What She Said" (featuring Coruja)
"Gaze"
"Yippee Ki Yay"
"Overwhelmed"
"Mindless Bliss"
"Painted Dreams"
"Nicotine" (featuring Joanna Jones)
"Broken String"
"FMO"
"Stir Crazy"
"Lullaby"
"Pocket Symphony"
"Morphine"
"Regret Roulette"
"Cosmo's Interlude"
"Candid" Technicolor Daydream
"Wrong Faces Wrong Places"
"Moving Too Quickly"
"Addict"
"Don't Wait For Me"
"Rose Colored Lenses"
"Soft Spoken"
"Poster Boy" 2021
"Sabotage"
"Zoned Out In My Youth"
"Belly Flop"
"Interstellar Weather"
"Fallen Parachutes"
"Ricochet On My Mind"
"Pumpkin Factory 4" Non-album singles
"Quintana Roo" (with Why Mona)
"Circular Motion" (with Why Mona)
"Rewind" (with Why Mona)
"Talk Heavy" (featuring Mike Taylor)
"Hummingbird" Loud Fantasy, Quiet Reality
"Talladega Knights"
"A Cautionary Tale"
"Lavender"
"We're Screwed"
"Perfect Season"
"Sailing Colors"
"Elephant Ears"
"Conspiracy"
"Endless"
"Origami"
"Better Luck Next Life"
"Belladonna"
"Everybody is Interesting"
"Mystery Of Me"
"Digital Junkie" 2022 Pixelated Oblivion
"Harlequin"
"I Don't Daydream Anymore"
"Smoke In My Heart"
"Cold Weather"
"Silly How I Feel (so silly silly)"
"Shelf Life"
"Have Fun"
"Comatose Scenery"
"Crash and Burn"
"Against the Timeline"
"Sorry To Bother You"
"It Goes Inside My Head"
"Fool's Paradise"
"I'm Not Surprised"
"Best At Being The Worst" Cherry Blossom Nightmare
"As They Bloom"
"More Than I Remember You"
"My Life Away"
"Drown Me"
"Intoxicate Me"
"Rain On My Happy Days"
"Stuck"
"Sinking Sand"
"Supposed To Fall"
"If It's Vengeance You Want"
"Dread"
"Fata Morgana"
"Reset Rewind"
"Question"
"PUMPKIN FACTORY 5 - PHONK HALLOWEEN" Non-album singles
"Guts" 2023 Dizzy Bezerko
"Sunlight or Demise"
"To the Toxic People"
"Goner"
"Twisted"
"Synthetic Tragedy"
"Curse"
"Can't Have it All"
"Color Chaos"
"Dreamblur"
"Ridiculous"
"Losing Myself to Find You"
"Neons Away"
"Utopia"
"Twilight Tears"
"Tremor"
"Smile on my Face" Pluto Tapes: Volume 4 (Ongoing)
"Who's the Dreamer"
"Headless" 2024
"Sentimental"
"Red Dress"
"Slingshot"
"Now That You're Gone"
"My Heaven Became..."
"Doomed"
"Slaughterhouse"
"Hollow" Non-album singles
"Sweet Dreams" (with Joanna Jones)
"Rip Me Apart" N/A (Ongoing)
"Dig"
"Tremor"
"Lost Inside"
"Flutter"
"Fragile Skin Of Me"
"Is It Victory"
"Misery"
"One on One"
"Infinity"
"Glory"
"Black Lotus"
"Frozen in Time"
"Clouded"

Collaborations[edit]

  • Seven Lions (with Unlike Pluto) - Rescue Me (2017) [47]

Remixes[edit]

Why Mona Singles (Originals)[edit]

Title Year
"Robbery" 2020
"Rabbit Hole"
"Homecoming"
"At the Top"
"Terra Tears"
"Wonder 'Bout You"
"Time is Running Out"
"Bethlehem Wonderland"
"lemons" 2022
"30 purple birds"
"stagNation"
"Kiss Me" 2023
"forest green"
"Dollhouse"

Why Mona Singles (Covers)[edit]

Title Year
"We Will Rock You" 2017
"Happy Together"
"Time Is Running Out" 2018
"September"
"Stayin' Alive"
"Go Your Own Way"
"Wannabe" 2019
"Oops!...I Did It Again (with Unlike Pluto)"
"Umbrella" 2020
"Running Up That Hill (Deal With God)" 2022

Like Saturn Singles[edit]

Title Year Album
"All Alone" 2020 Alpharetta (EP)
"My Life"
"I Don't Mind"
"I Wish I Could Say"
"Cherry Rain" Something Beautiful
"2091"
"I Know I Know"
"Something Beautiful"
"So Worthless"
"Hope"
"Levitation Spell"
"Stemmed Out"
"Sandy Future"
"Munky Funk"
"Love You Anyway"
"You Were Gone"
"Leftovers"
"Floating in Time"
"Not a Grunge Song"
"Dojo Club"
"Fairy Catching" endless reveries
"Crystallized Air"
"Mirai"
"Tranquilized Summer"
"Blue Haze"
"Shrine"
"In The Clouds"
"Midnight Sailing"
"Forgiveness"
"Otherworldly"
"Baklava"
"Avoiding Burdens"
"Blissful Seclusion"
"No Man's Land"
"Beautiful Ruins"
"Memories Put To Rest"
"Dreamy Dimensions"
"Hollowed Out"
"Pink breeze"
"Forgetting Myself"
"Motion Sickness"
"Stone Cold"
"awake at night"
"chikurin"
"Cold Blooded"
"floating in an endless void"
"Tunnel Vision" 2021
"set adrift"
"fading to grey"
"edge of reality"
"cuddled up"
"lost happiness"
"vanished years"
"free roaming"
"missing summer"
"reminiscing"
"distant galaxies" seldom happiness
"purple city"
"weary oasis"
"stranded nowhere"
"i think i'll be alright"
"neverending road"
"what a view"
"mirror with no reflection"
"melancholy abyss"
"after hours"
"thin atmosphere"
"fog season"
"let's go far away"
"away from the storm"
"lucid unknowns"
"familiar dream"
"forsaken truth"
"abandoned"
"unseen lights"
"unfinished"
"turns to ash"
"coping"
"hard to reach"
"dark lullaby"
"middle of nowhere"
"coming to an end"
"aesthetic"
"warped"
"descending"
"cold embers"
"no pixels"
"time and time again"
"missing colors"
"getting colder"
"i wonder" Non-Album Singles
"lost in the sand"
"flowing whisper"
"i feel so lost at night"
"snow mushrooms"
"when darkness fades"
"sleepless nights" 2022
"summer memories"
"unearth"
"serene memoir"
"undiscovered city
"escape to anywhere"
"constant waves"
"up and away"
"past the storm"
"missing my mind"
"illusive past" fairy sonata
"strong absence"
"whispering motions"
"conundrum"
"overnight trip"
"bitter nights"
"falling debris"
"faint glimmer"
"time for a reset"
"calm before the storm"
"solemn sky"
"out of the way"
"foggy mind"
"i feel like someone else"
"maybe it's all over"
"gloom garden"
"losing my head"
"stardust"
"beyond the horizon"
"dropped temperature"
"down we fall"
"weird times"
"boundless sorrow"
"harmony"
"hollow"
"radiant"
"doom and gloom"
"hana fields"
"celestial fall"
"neverness"
"new ruins" nighttime nostalgia
"halcyon"
"dropoff"
"yama"
"silent peaks" 2023
"where i should be"
"chaos color"
"further than i thought"
"as it rains"
"desert rain"
"mountain wind"
"before i say goodbye"
"old flowers"
"don't you cry"
"wasn't trying to love you"
"hush"
"silent tears"
"nori beam"
"still forgotten"
"echoes and whispers"
"hidden fortunes"
"crashbloom"
"nowhere alone"
"i keep forgetting"
"backfired"
"once was"
"always weird"
"sand drifting"
"summer silence"
"floating where i want"
"celestial secrets"
"firebreath"
"nightly"
"faeries garden"
"wastingmytime"
"love blur" Non-Album Singles
"night fade"
"exhausted"
"lately"
"shadow dark"
"sing for me"
"monday apocalypse"
"don't you love me too"
"like i'm done"
"i never know anything"
"stuck in twilight"
"through the valley"
"white lies" 2024 i wonder when (EP)
"empty promises"
"thinking it through"
"no cure" N/A (Ongoing)
"i think i'll be alright"
"stranded"
"dawned on me"
"never enough"
"worth my time"
"hello karma"
"i don't want to do anything"
"sometimes it's everything"
"relapse"
"broken, shattered"
"i wanted to try"
"new horizons"
"days cloudy"
"remember that one time"
"the end of us"

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