MOKHETHI
DEBUT EP
DYSTOPIA.
A world gone wrong. We still have to live in it.
DYSTOPIA is my debut EP. To me, a dystopia is a society where things have gone wrong, but people are still expected to live. There are bad people and good people, and life keeps happening within it.
Across these seven songs, I make room for different parts of that life: desire and confidence, giving love back to myself, being taken for granted after opening up, and refusing to be reduced to one identity. There’s also the distance between home and my dreams, and the family I miss.
On COMPENSATE, I’m talking to parts of myself, trying to make reality bearable enough to keep going. On GREAT, I’m looking ahead and asking my future self, “Are you proud of me?” That’s the world I want to share with you: what we feel, what we tell ourselves to survive, and what we still hope for.
Listen to 20-second previews of COMPENSATE and GREAT below. Preview plays are counted anonymously.
M / DYSTOPIAVISUAL WORLD / 01Confidence, desire and a little arrogance.
I let myself be cocky here. This is about sexual confidence and knowing that being with me is something worth bragging about.DYSTOPIA / MUSIC IN DEVELOPMENTGiving that love to myself.
I’m giving myself the love I used to give someone else. Their absence brings me peace, and I’m finding something better than the love I left behind.DYSTOPIA / MUSIC IN DEVELOPMENTMore than a single identity.
I don’t want to be reduced to one version of myself. This song is about refusing that limit and making room for the different parts of who I am.DYSTOPIA / MUSIC IN DEVELOPMENTWhen vulnerability becomes their comfort.
I’ve opened up, but now you don’t try as much. This song is about the care and effort that fade when someone feels too secure in having you.DYSTOPIA / MUSIC IN DEVELOPMENTA conversation between parts of myself.
One part of me compensates so another can feel free. I’m convincing myself I made the right choices, couldn’t have done differently and couldn’t have known better, because otherwise everything starts to feel real. Through that internal battle, I’m still rowing towards a shore I can feel.DYSTOPIA / MUSIC IN DEVELOPMENTLeaving home, promising to return.
I’m leaving home to pursue my dreams, missing my sisters and promising to come back. My mother’s absence is part of that story too, and of what home feels like now.DYSTOPIA / MUSIC IN DEVELOPMENT“Are you proud of me?”
I’m writing to my future self. I want to be great, but I also want to know how that version of me will look back on who I am now and whether I’ve made him proud.DYSTOPIA / MUSIC IN DEVELOPMENTCOMPENSATE and GREAT previews are available now. Remaining track titles will be announced.
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About me
I’m Mokhethi, a South African singer and songwriter from Qwaqwa, now based in the United Kingdom. I make pop, R&B and Afropop.
My songs come from different parts of my life: love, family, identity, ambition and the conversations I have with myself. Sometimes I’m confident. Sometimes I’m questioning everything. I want there to be room for both in my music.
I also come from a dance background. Movement is part of how I express myself, and I want to bring that into performances where the songs and choreography tell the story together.
My debut EP, DYSTOPIA, brings seven of those songs together. It’s where I’m starting, and I’m glad you’re here to hear it.
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Recording, rehearsals and live performances.
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BEYOND DYSTOPIA
AfterLife
A future album project.
MORE DETAILS TO COME