Kids these days.

It seems everywhere you look, there’s another teen cropping up on the interwebz poised for global domination: Daisy Dares You, Justin Bieber, Sky Ferriera. Don’t they have anything more important to do, like go to prom or start learning to drive or something?

No matter.

Here comes Richard Jay, a sixteen-year-old singer hailing from the United Kingdom. Much like his DIY-pop predecessors, Richard Jay has made use of social media (whatever that is) to get his name out and start expanding his presence in the digital world. At the same time, he also happens to be a legitimate artist in his own right: “He writes all his own music, plays every instrument on his tracks, sings, records and produces it himself.” Talent. Nice!

As one may surmise from his Musical MySpace, Richard Jay’s music is just the right mix of bright, shimmering synthesizers and deep bass sound that both sounds gorgeous and refrains from drowning out the singer’s breathy, barely there crooning on top.

I, as we like to say in the industry, totally dig it.

Jay is due to record with Allie Gonino and Sky Ferreira later this year in Los Angeles.

To hear a taste of what the boy’s got to offer, click below to hear and download one of Jay’s delightfully lush tracks, “Today.”

DL: Richard Jay – Today

Yay! So exciting!

It’s the official video debut of Daisy Dares You, the promising new UK talent I first introduuced in June of last year.

“Number One Enemy” finds Daisy in Wonderland, frolicking ’round abandoned houses, drinking mysterious bottles of liquid and getting crushed by giant cupcakes. It’s sort of like a day in the life of Courtney Love, really.

Do you dare?

Daisy Dares You is 15 years of age. (!!?!)

Daisy Dares You creates “alt-pop” music that sounds to be about on par with her contemporaries, including the golden pop sensibility of Little Boots, the sarcastically sweet confections of Kate Nash, and the enunciation skills of Lily Allen.

Her list of influences is fairly impeccable (Karen O begins the list, including Natasha Kahn, Lykke Li, Debbie Harry, and The White Stripes, amongst hundreds of others), which doesn’t always mean something but seems to mean something in this case.

I find her to be both refreshing and nice.

Here are two songs to enjoy from her. You may notice that Daisy Dares You sings a song called “Daisy Dares You,” which is helpful not only because (A) it is her name but (B) because she goes on to spell it out letter by letter in the chorus. So really, if you haven’t gotten the name down by that point, you’d probably be best to move on from here.

DL: Daisy Dares You – Daisy Dares You
DL: Daisy Dares You – No. 1 Enemy

Sounds like talent in the works to me.

If you liked her as much as I did, then click here to visit her MySpace.