Azul Towers had a flight to catch. The night before heading back to California, she slipped into the El Paso studio where she usually records with her friend Layoh, who handles her vocal engineering. She wasn’t chasing a breakthrough. She just wanted one last session before the law school semester swallowed her schedule.
Studio time is paid by the hour, so Towers works fast, and many of her songs come together in about an hour. That night, something clicked. “Expectation” came together as one of her favorite songs, and she knew it deserved more than a quiet upload.
A year later, she made it happen. Towers drove to Los Angeles to shoot the video with friends she had met in El Paso years earlier, people she trusted and who shared her vision. They filmed over two days with very little money, relying on creativity and goodwill. The final product looks anything but small, and Towers says it’s one of the projects she is most proud of.
The patience is part of the story. The song sat for a year before it got its visuals, and Towers says she is learning to trust timing in her career rather than compare herself to others. She stopped measuring herself against artists her age or younger and now takes their success as inspiration instead.
“Expectation” is out now, and the music video is live on YouTube. For an independent artist working between a law degree, a studio in her hometown, and a shoot hundreds of miles away, it is proof that a release doesn’t need a big budget to land with impact.
