Overview
Elise Trouw has spent most of her life counting.
Best known for her seamless one-woman-band videos and genre-blurring musicianship, Elise rose to fame in the late 2010s through viral live-looping mashups and meticulous multi-instrumental performances. Her debut album, Unraveling, released as a teenager, led to a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and a two-week tour opening for Incubus. With no label or manager at the time, Elise was suddenly in green rooms and industry meetings where she was both admired and underestimated – navigating adult spaces while still barely out of high school.
Her new album The Diary of Elon Lust, out February 13th, 2026 via Midtopia, is the most radical departure of her career – and also the most honest. It’s a satirical concept album told through the persona of Elon Lust: a twenty-something male alter ego who embodies a cocktail of entitlement, objectification, and weaponized likability. Part archetype, part confession, part cautionary tale, Elon is made up of things men have said to Elise. Or to her friends. Or to you.
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