She was banned from public social media profiles just over a year ago, but on Wednesday, Romy Mars returned to the Internet with what appears to be a musical surprise. The 17-year-old daughter of acclaimed filmmaker Sofia Coppola and Grammy-winning musician Thomas Mars (of Phoenix) has just released her debut EP. Stuck.
Available to stream on all major platforms, Stuck features two songs, both written and performed by Romy Mars herself (the singer hasn't issued formal confirmation that it's actually her, see: public social media profiles banned, but all signs point to it being legit). The title track tells the story of a summer fling gone sour, with a jaunty guitar that makes you listen to a car with the windows down as the weather heats up. The second track, “From a Distance” is a whimsical bop with bedroom pop undertones that can't help but remind us of fellow Coppola, Jason Schwartzman's iconic Coconut Records indie project.
According to the credits on Spotify, the EP was produced by Claud, a 25-year-old singer-songwriter signed to Phoebe Bridgers' Saddest Factory Records. In 2023, Claud released an LP titled supermodel, an album painted with all the shades of bedroom pop. The producer stepped in as a co-writer on Romy Mars' “From a Distance,” which might explain its dreamier sound.
Along with the new music, Romy Mars' artistic debut also includes a public TikTok profile (which has yet to be verified). Earlier this week, he joined his grandfather Francis Ford Coppola and his extended family for the Cannes Film Festival premiere. megalopolis The occasion marked her first major red carpet, she wore Chanel from head to toe.
This surprise album is the perfectly simple way for the daughter of such a famous set of parents to establish her own career. He went viral last summer for posting a since-deleted TikTok telling the story of how he got grounded trying to rent a helicopter using his dad's credit card. In retrospect, they could have been the earlier moves of a girl who forged a path of her own.
