Since the release of Eli’s EP Girl of Your Dreams , the 24-year-old singer has amassed a loyal fan base — including me (admittedly, when my editor-in-chief, Lindsay Peoples, sent me a text with a song earlier this summer, I thought she had spammed me with an old song from the 2000s. “This is new and you need to listen,” she wrote, and I quickly fell down the rabbit hole that was Eli, known online for posting under the username @ journalofadoll ). And I’m not alone — since she’s released her latest batch of music, she’s gained lots of fans, including some famous ones like Addison Rae, Camilla Cabello, and Troye Sivan.

Despite appearances, Eli wasn’t trying to emulate the 2000s, but her music wouldn’t be the same without the influences from her childhood, such as Hannah Montana an

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