Some of the best songs show up when nobody is expecting them. Azul Towers wrote and recorded “Expectation” in El Paso the night before her flight back to California. She just wanted one last studio session before locking in for the law school semester, and she wasn’t planning on anything big. The song became one of her favorites.
She loved it enough that a year later she drove to Los Angeles to shoot the video with friends she had met in El Paso years earlier. The shoot took two days on a minimal budget, and the result, she says, came out epic. It is one of the projects she is most proud of.
The video fits the independent, hands-on way Towers works. She has been shifting from simply making music and putting it out to running her career like a business, and “Expectation” shows what that looks like in practice: a trusted team, a tight timeline, and a finished product that doesn’t read as low-budget.
Musically, the song sits in the dark-pop space she has made her own, with the gothic edge her peers always hear in her work. She wrote it as she writes most things, from a place of honesty.
For Towers, the video is another step toward the larger goal of reaching listeners who connect with her message.
