In a music scene crowded with hyperpop chaos and cookie-cutter influencers, Ellice floats in like a lucid dream, barefaced, poetic, and painfully real.
The 17-year-old Berlin-born artist has just released her debut album, Ellice im Wunderland, and it’s not just an introduction, it’s a manifesto.
With 10 tracks soaked in bittersweet nostalgia, soft synths, and bone-deep lyrics, Ellice lets us into her teenage diary, written not in pink ink, but in bold black eyeliner and shaky voice notes recorded on her childhood video console.
Ellice im Wunderland isn’t perfect. It’s better. It’s honest.
The Album: Ellice im Wunderland
Released on July 4, 2025, Ellice im Wunderland invites us to wander through Ellice’s inner landscape: gentle and raw, bruised and blooming.
There are no gimmicks here; it’s just a voice you believe.
Key tracks:
“Im Wunderland” — a whimsical yet lonely opener that sets the emotional tone.
“(not your) remedy” — equal parts cool detachment and crushing vulnerability.
“Motten” — moths as metaphors for fragile love and hidden pain.
“Lovesongs” feat. Tom Hengst — her only feature, fusing hazy R&B with late-night yearning.
“Angst > Liebe” — her breakout hit, where fear and love wrestle with the weight of growing up.
The entire project lands somewhere between Gen Z melancholy and early 2000s radio-pop—if both had an existential baby.
From Fürstenwalde to Berlin’s Stages
Ellice’s story begins far from fame. Raised in Fürstenwalde, she discovered music early, singing at the Friedrichstadtpalast and winning Jugend musiziert. However, her first real “studio” wasn’t a stage. It was her video game console. There, she recorded songs and spoke like a DIY radio host, editing imaginary broadcasts and creating emotional worlds.
Those imaginary broadcasts planted the seeds of something very real.
She later caught attention on The Voice Kids, mentored by Wincent Weiss, and in 2023, her song “Stummes Klavier” introduced her to wider German audiences. But it was “Angst > Liebe”, emotional, piano-backed, and TikTok-viral, that sealed her name into the German music conversation, earning over 5.4 million views on YouTube and landing on the national charts.
Her Sound & Influences
Ellice’s music doesn’t scream, it lingers. She’s inspired by Jeremias, Schmyt, and Paula Hartmann. Her sound blends bedroom-pop intimacy with melancholic indie textures.
She sings about fear, love, growing pains, social awkwardness, girlhood dreams, and emotional overstimulation. Her style is slow-burn emotionality, not stadium glitter, and that’s what Gen Z loves her for.
Ellice the Person: DIY Stardom and Soft Power
What makes Ellice so magnetic is how unmanufactured she feels. In interviews, she’s goofy, awkward, self-aware, recording videos in Spätis, joking about her mom-manager (“one day I’ll pay her”), and crying during soundchecks because her dad finally came around to her career.
Her fans arrive in handmade outfits, white hair bows, and hearts scribbled with lyrics. At her Berlin release show on July 7, just before her 18th birthday, Ellice stood barefoot and tearful. She asked the crowd to give her their hearts.
Why GLAZECORE Loves Ellice
Because she’s not just another Gen Z girl with a mic, she’s the girl writing her own narrative, editing it on a second-hand console, and hitting “record” before she even knew who was listening.
And that’s the most radical thing pop music can be in 2025.
