Nathalie Miller returns with new single, a sparkling daydream of glittery indie alt-pop called ‘kansas,’ out today. The glistening track, described as a “platonic friendship breakup song” by Miller, hits streaming services alongside a colorful and melancholic music video directed by Palmer Wells and Christopher Consoli.

The Brooklyn resident and Massachusetts native penned the emotive, star-gazing ‘kansas,’ the first taste of October’s new EP like you used to, as a composite sketch reflecting many of the friendships she’s had with the opposite sex. As it turns out, there was a discrepancy developing in these friendships with men that was not simply present with other women.  

“I noticed that in most of my friendships with women, I just felt like a person,” Miller says. “But in a lot of my past friendships with men, I was really hyper aware of being a girl and playing the role of emotional support mother or girlfriend without receiving that support back. I remember thinking to myself, ‘I know the first and last name of every person who’s ever been mean to these guys, and they don’t even know what book I am currently reading, or the names of my brothers’.”

She pauses, then adds: “To me, it’s a platonic friendship breakup song that I wrote after taking a step back from a lot of those friendships and looking at the patterns that threaded them all together.”