Across six singles, all accompanied by respective music videos – from the dreamy lo-fi glow of ‘Chill Cool Girl’ and the biting self-awareness of ‘God It Must Be Good To Be Loved By Me’ to the confessional honesty of ‘Mr Ego’, the cinematic sweep of ‘Alpine State of Mind’, the darker pull of ‘Bodies’, and the smoky obsession of ‘Levi Jeans’ – Greta has gradually introduced listeners to an album rooted in contradiction: intimacy and distance, recklessness and reflection, fantasy and reality.
On the album, Greta says: “This album feels like a collection of moments where I was trying to figure myself out in real time. A lot of the songs came from chaos, heartbreak, desire, loneliness, or wanting to escape something. I think This Wasn’t Planned is really about growing into yourself through all the messiness and unpredictability of life, and learning that sometimes the unplanned things end up shaping you the most.”
At the centre of the record sits ‘Dancing On The Moon’, a stormy, magnetic indie-pop track that captures the emotional gravity of wanting someone so intensely it begins to feel cosmic. Driven by thunderous tension and haunting intimacy, the song moves between seduction and surrender, balancing vulnerability with danger.
Opening with the striking line “Tell me stranger, are your hands weathered from the rains,” Greta immediately pulls listeners into a world where attraction feels elemental and uncontrollable. Across the track, bourbon-soaked imagery, whispered confessions, and the recurring refrain “I’ll take you dancing on the dark side of the moon” create a sense of romance teetering on the edge of chaos.
Greta says, “Dancing On The Moon feels like the emotional centre of the album. It’s about intense connection – the kind that’s exciting, consuming, and maybe a little destructive. There’s this pull between wanting to lose yourself in someone and still trying to hold onto who you are.”
That emotional push-and-pull defines This Wasn’t Planned as a whole. Written across moments of upheaval, longing, heartbreak, reinvention, and self-discovery, the album captures the messy unpredictability of your twenties – where nothing arrives in the order you expected, and identity is constantly shifting underneath you.
Outside of music, Greta has built an equally compelling creative path through film and performance. After training at The Actor’s Program backed by Sam Neill, she worked across stunt and screen productions including The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and Apple TV’s Time Bandits. That cinematic instinct runs deeply through her songwriting, with songs that feel visual, immersive, and emotionally immediate.
Since releasing her debut single ‘Road to Hell’ – which unexpectedly featured on a Netflix soundtrack – Greta has continued to develop a sound that blends indie-pop, alternative textures, confessional lyricism, and cinematic atmosphere into something uniquely her own.
With This Wasn’t Planned, Greta van den Brink delivers a debut that feels raw, fearless, and fully realised – a coming-of-age record shaped equally by chaos, desire, heartbreak, humour, and self-awareness.
