Viral Indie Favorite Blond in Car Returns with “How To Be a Mystery” ft. Jack Newsome
VIRAL INDIE FAVORITE BLOND IN CAR
RETURNS WITH “HOW TO BE A MYSTERY”
FEATURING JACK NEWSOME – LISTEN HERE
The cult favorite follows the acclaimed single “Bad Dad” with a shimmering dream pop duet about desire, confidence, and impossible attraction.
In an era obsessed with discovering the next young indie sensation, Robin Schorr, better known as Blond in Car, is quietly rewriting the script.
Long before she became one of indie music’s most beloved new voices, Schorr had already built an accomplished career as a film producer.
Music wasn’t a second chance. It was simply the next chapter. Armed with an Omnichord balanced on an ironing board in her kitchen, she began sharing both original songs and dreamy covers online. What started as an unassuming video of her performing “My High Gummygirl” unexpectedly exploded across the internet, introducing hundreds of thousands of listeners to an artist whose wit, vulnerability, inimitable
Today, Blond in Car’s community spans more than 750,000 devoted followers across social media platforms, with noted fans like SZA, Rosalía, Aurora, and Marina. Along the way, Blond in Car has quietly earned a reputation as “your favorite songwriter’s favorite songwriter.”
Now, the viral artist is unveiling “How To Be a Mystery,” the second single from her forthcoming album GLIDER, arriving this fall via Create Music.
Produced by acclaimed indie artist and producer Jay Som (Lucy Dacus, boygenius
For Schorr, the answer arrived while watching model and actress Cara Delevingne effortlessly command a Hollywood party.
“I was fascinated watching someone move through a room with that kind of confidence,” says Schorr. “Someone who knows they can have anyone they want, and that they’re the one deciding who’s worthy of their attention. I started imagining what it would feel like to be her…and even more, what it would feel like to love her.”
The result is an intoxicating meditation on longing, charisma, obsession, and impossible attraction, wrapped in Blond in Car’s signature blend of vintage textures, sparkling dream pop production, and emotionally disarming songwriting.
The track is also highlighted by an obviously meant-to-be collaboration with Jack Newsome, whose addictive harmony videos have earned him more than one million followers across TikTok and Instagram. Schorr first connected with Newsome after he shared his cover of “My High Gummygirl” online.
“When I wrote the song, I kept hearing Jack’s heavenly voice,” Schorr recalls. “I knew he’d bring exactly the kind of delicious pop energy the song needed.”
“How To Be a Mystery” follows this spring’s acclaimed single “Bad Dad,” featuring Missy Dabice of Mannequin Pussy. A devastating meditation on inherited emotional wounds, the song offered the first glimpse into the emotional world of GLIDER, landing on Spotify’s All New Indie, All New Rock, and Indie Arrivals, Apple Music’s Today’s Indie Rock, and New in Indie, and TIDAL’s Indie Circus: Best New Indie, while also earning praise from influential music critic Anthony Fantano.
Over the past year, Blond in Car has toured with CMAT, The Two Lips, and Slimdan, made guest appearances alongside Beach Bunny, Wallice, and Quarters of Change, collaborated with brands including Olipop, KAYAK, Atlantic Records, Domino Records, and XL Recordings, and earned praise from the likes of Under the Radar and Glide Magazine.
But GLIDER is more than an exciting new indie pop record. Across songs about fractured families, impossible crushes, anxiety, hope, chosen family, and the quiet courage it takes to keep believing in love, Schorr writes with remarkable openness and contagious wit. Rather than romanticizing youth, she celebrates curiosity, reinvention, and emotional honesty, proving that growing older doesn’t mean having less to say; it means having a whole lot more.
At a time when cynicism often takes center stage, Blond in Car has captured the hearts of acclaimed artists, stylish young urbanites, and a myriad of other music lovers by offering something refreshingly different: a vision of adulthood that is creative, joyful, and magnificently alive.
“How To Be a Mystery” is available on all streaming platforms now.
