Chelsea Cutler - How To Be Human

What this video is

Released August 2019 as Chelsea Cutler's first single under Republic Records after building her fanbase independently via SoundCloud and two self-released mixtapes, 'How To Be Human' represents the moment the bedroom-pop/DIY indie-electronic pipeline converged with major label infrastructure. The video's warm, naturalistic aesthetic mirrors the emotional transparency of the SoundCloud generation — artists like…

Why it matters

A textbook artifact of the late-2010s indie-pop/electropop convergence: confessional lyricism, self-produced instrumentation, and a visual language borrowed from documentary realism rather than high-gloss pop spectacle. The video's fast-cut naturalism positions Cutler within the tradition of…