Seventeen, and Already Sounds Like This

At seventeen, most people are still figuring out what kind of music they like. Megan Bülow was already writing it. Born in Canada, raised across Germany, the UK, and the US before landing in the Netherlands to finish school, she was discovered at a summer camp in 2016 and quickly connected with Canadian songwriters and producers—Lowell, Nate J, Mike Wise, Kevin Figs—who apparently understood what they were dealing with.

Her debut single Not A Love Song went to number one on Hype Machine in 2017, which remains one of the more reliable signals that a pop artist has something real. The song is exactly what it claims not to be: emotionally precise, a little wounded, built around a hook that doesn’t overstay its welcome. The kind of track that makes you stop what you’re doing when it comes on for the third time.

If Sigrid or Astrid S are in your regular rotation—that Nordic-adjacent pop that puts voice and feeling before the production flex—Bülow fits naturally in that space. Her debut EP Damaged Vol. 1 lands with more confidence than most artists twice her age can manage. The video for Not A Love Song was shot in Berlin, which tracks—the song has the specific post-midnight city-walk energy that city tends to produce.

Seventeen. It’s offensive, honestly.