Publicity Campaign: Kaiyah Mercedes - ‘Miss Me’
Genre-shifting songwriter and performer Kaiyah Mercedes returns with ‘Miss Me’, a darker, emotionally layered new single that deepens the story they have been building across recent releases. Landing 4 June 2026 via GYRO, ‘Miss Me’ sits in the tension between self-respect and grief, the moment you know you made the right choice, but your body still has to catch up.
Following the momentum of their recent single ‘3 Month Blackout’, which saw Kaiyah spotlighted by Rolling Stone Australia and earn a play on triple j, ‘Miss Me’ pushes further into emotional complexity, sharpening both the writing and the bite.
At its core, ‘Miss Me’ traces the winding aftermath of leaving someone who never met you where you were.
“Miss Me is all about that feeling of knowing you left someone who didn’t treat you the way you deserve but still having to go through the winding paths of grief as you question why you weren’t good enough for them to change,” Kaiyah says. “The songs climax is a final resolution where I display bitterness more than self-scrutiny, wishing unfortunate love stories and a lifetime of regret upon the person I’m singing about.”
Written from a place of emotional honesty rather than outcome, Kaiyah’s songwriting begins as a form of processing, with no pressure to turn experience into a product.
“When I write, I always come first from a place of understanding my own emotions as a way of processing my own experiences. I don’t write to make a commercially good song or write to release, I just let the song come into existence without pressure or purpose before ever deciding to put it out into the world,” they add.
‘Miss Me’ was written by Kaiyah Mercedes and brought to life with producer Seetali Mack, then mixed by Julian Schweitzer and mastered by Chris Downer. The result is a track that holds its weight in the headphones, while opening up into something bolder and more playful on stage.
Kaiyah is known for creative videos and the clip for ‘Miss Me’ is no exception. “I’ve been fascinated with music videos since I was a kid because to me, they were always what allowed me to get inside the mind of an artist and see their physical manifestation of their music.”
The music video for ‘Miss Me’ traces the slow collapse of a relationship over time, from love, to fighting, to silence. Centred around a performance scene of Kaiyah running alone down an empty road, it mirrors the song’s tension between self-respect and grief, that moment you know you made the right choice, but your body still has to catch up.
With each release, Kaiyah is mapping a bigger story, one that refuses neat endings. ‘Miss Me’ is the next chapter, darker, bolder, and closer to the nerve.
