Max Drazen has returned with “Five Three“, his first single of 2023 today via Field Trip Recordings/Capitol Records. The glorious celebration of the uplifting power of love finds Drazen singing, “All I need is you right now / When I’m too high you pull me down / And when I’m low you pick me off the ground / You’re the world to me and you’re just 5’3.” In the accompanying video, Drazen gives an exuberant live performance of the song in Malibu, CA, overlooking the ocean. Watch it now below.
“‘Five Three’ is a song about the feeling of finding the person you’ve been looking for,” explains Max Drazen. “My goal was to make the song feel as big and euphoric as possible in order to match that feeling. It took us months to finish— at one point we even rewrote the entire chorus and redid all the production. It was super important to me that the song fit in a world of euphoria and bliss.“
Rence, an artist/producer/songwriter who, like Drazen, has gained a reputation as a “genre disruptor,” produced the track. Drazen wrote “Five Three” with Rence, co-producer Alex Bilo and Andrew Stoelzing.
Born and raised in Connecticut, Drazen signed to Field Trip Recordings/Capitol Records last year and released his first singles – “Let Me Down Slow,” “Caffeine,” “Blurry Pictures” and “Not Because I Loved You.” EARMILK hailed him as “a promising songwriter with sky-high limits.” PEOPLE said, “Max Drazen is the kind of musician you want to keep on repeat.”