New This Week: Romcom Pop Worth Hearing, as Callie Young Releases Debut EP Just a Kid in Love
New This Week: Romcom Pop Worth Hearing, as Callie Young Releases Debut EP Just a Kid in Love
An American Songwriter Follows Five Singles with a Seven-Song Debut Built Like a Romcom
Callie Young released her debut EP, just a kid in love, on 22 October 2026. The singer and songwriter, a Colorado native based in Nashville, United States, calls her sound romcom pop. The seven songs play like the story arc of a romantic comedy. They also arrive at the end of a run that she built one single at a time.
Callie Young’s song rookie is in the playlist below, and her artist profile collects her full coverage. just a kid in love reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Press play, then read on for how she built her romcom pop one single at a time.
Before Just a Kid in Love, Callie Young Built Her Romcom Pop One Single at a Time
That run started well before the EP. Her catalogue also holds singles such as how are you?, the things that hurt to say out loud, crumbling and collateral damage. Then the EP’s own songs began to appear one by one. bubble wrap, rookie, strawberry, lucky charms and clark kent each came out as a single first.
The slow build shows in the numbers. Her Spotify page now carries the verified badge and about 4,400 listeners a month. Each of those singles has a few thousand plays, led by strawberry at more than 6,400.
Along the way she gave the sound a name of her own. Romcom pop, as she describes it, is nostalgic, playful and openly romantic, with indie pop and folk pop underneath it.
On the EP, Callie Young Tells a Love Story From Rookie Nerves to the Leap That Risks Everything
The EP follows one arc from start to finish. It starts with feeling like a rookie at love, moves on to seeing that person everywhere, and ends with taking the leap. By then the lesson is clear: something worth loving is also something worth losing.
The imagery is what makes it hers. Childhood things carry grown-up feelings. There is a box of Lucky Charms, the superhero hiding in plain sight in clark kent and the pop of bubble wrap. There are rocket ships too, with a song called rocket science among the seven. The point, as she frames it, is that falling in love has a funny way of making you feel like a kid again.
A Release Show at The 5 Spot and Seven Short Songs Made for Listening on Repeat
The songs keep things brisk. rollercoaster junkie runs just over two minutes. Meanwhile rookie, the song in our playlist, comes in at two minutes and 39 seconds.
On rookie, Taylor Bialy produced, mixed and mastered the track and shares the writing with Morgan Gruber and Joe Jenneman.
The release itself was staged like an event. Fans heard the songs live at a release show and listening party at The 5 Spot on 21 October. Then the EP went live at midnight that night.
What Comes Next for Callie Young After Her Debut EP and the Romcom Pop It Introduced
An introduction is what this EP sets out to be, and the method is already in place: singles first, then the full story. So the next chapter is about taking romcom pop to the listeners it was made for.
Maisie Peters shows how that path can run. The English songwriter released two EPs, including Dressed Too Nice for a Jacket. After that, her debut album You Signed Up for This entered the UK Albums Chart at number two. Then The Good Witch, in June 2023, took her to number one. Callie Young is at the EP stage of that story now.
Lizzy McAlpine shows how far a single song can carry a songwriter. Her debut album, Give Me a Minute, came out in 2020. Two years later, Five Seconds Flat brought her first appearances on the Billboard 200 and the Hot 100, helped by the TikTok-viral Ceilings. Callie Young also tells her stories in short songs, and she already shares them with a growing following on TikTok.
So the trajectory is easy to follow. A handful of singles came first, then a name for the sound, and now a seven-song romcom with a beginning, a middle and a leap at the end.
MusicDrops.News curator team: “Seven songs that treat a crush like the plot of a film. Start with strawberry and keep going until the leap.”
Stream just a kid in love on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and Deezer, or on any service through the EP’s link page. Follow Callie Young on Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X and Pinterest.
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