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The new single and music video “Dying Fire”from New York based singer-songwriter and musician ROREY. The track is cathartic dream pop with bittersweet melodies and lush arrangements. ROREY explains, ” ‘Dying Fire’ sits in this space between love and impossibility. The song doesn’t blame or excuse it simply states with radical acceptance that what once was can never be again. Similar to ‘Temporary Tragedy’ love can only go so far when one person is left carrying it alone”
ROREY has received acclaim from the likes ofZane Lowe, LADYGUNN, Atwood Magazineand more. Her music has received adds on popular Spotify editorial playlists including Fresh Finds, Fresh Finds Indie, New Music Daily, New in Pop, etc.
New York–based singer-songwriter and musician ROREY transforms raw confession into art that unsettles as much as it heals.
Her sophomore EP, Dysphoria, released August 15th, 2025 is a fearless plunge into the contradictions of mental illness, where haunting melodies and ethereal vocals merge with hypnotic, swirling instrumentals. Co-written and produced in 2021 with longtime collaborator Scott Effman, the project captures the chaos, beauty, and disorientation of a young artist clawing her way toward meaning in the midst of a manic episode.
ROREY’s 2026 single release “Temporary Tragedy” is powerful, raw and poignant. She confides, “The song is about the cost of self abandonment when you grip intimacy and what it means to choose yourself.” The track was accompanied by a cinematic music video chronicling the rumination and spiraling that can follow the end of a relationship. “The video is rooted in my first queer relationship, its message is universal: sometimes love isn’t enough to bridge the gap between hope and reality, when the other person can’t meet you there,” she shares.
Her latest single “Dying Fire” is cathartic dream pop with bittersweet melodies and lush arrangements. ROREY explains, ” ‘Dying Fire’ sits in this space between love and impossibility. The song doesn’t blame or excuse it simply states with radical acceptance that what once was can never be again. Similar to ‘Temporary Tragedy’ love can only go so far when one person is left carrying it alone”
Both singles are off of her highly anticipated forthcoming album Temporary Tragedy. The artist confides, “The album is essentially about two people who couldn’t make it work no matter how much they loved each other because what they wanted and they needed were at odds. In the end they both got hurt in the face of love never fully realized. It holds space for both peoples’ experience, almost as a shared ache.”
ROREY’s music doesn’t just resonate, it names the truths you’re afraid to speak and reminds you that you’re not alone in feeling them.