Unraveling the mysterious 'Chill Cool Girl' with Greta van den Brink
We're all guilty of it. That over emphasis in the early days of a romance. The one where you laugh a little too breezily, pretend you are fine with whatever, and quietly bury the avalanche of overthinking that is threatening to spill over. In her new single Chill Cool Girl, Greta van den Brink turns that façade inside out, crafting an anthem for anyone who has ever pretended to be unbothered while privately unravelling.
Greta is not your average newcomer. Before music, she was in the world of film and stunt performance, appearing in projects for Netflix, Amazon, and Apple. That background still clings to her work, infusing songs with a visual quality that feels expansive.
Chill Cool Girl began in collaboration with producer Noema Te Hau III at Parachute Studios in Tāmaki Makaurau. What started as a tongue-in-cheek idea became one of Greta’s most relatable tracks to date. There’s a strange beauty in its contradictions: lo-fi yet dreamy, playful yet vulnerable, tagged jokingly as “Hawaiian country” but ultimately hard to pin down. Like the persona it critiques, the track wears a mask while quietly pulling it apart.
Raised on a farm outside Auckland, Greta’s roots are grounded in imagination and storytelling, a world encouraged by her mother and sparked into music when actor Shane Rangi handed her a guitar. Since then, Greta has built a catalogue that moves between intimacy and bold hooks, always circling back to the tension between what we show and what we hide.
With Chill Cool Girl arriving as the first taste of her debut album This Wasn’t Planned (set for 2026), Greta van den Brink is positioning herself as one to watch. Her song is a playful takedown of the “effortless” persona often expected of women. It is an acknowledgment of the chaos beneath the surface, an invitation to laugh at it, and maybe, finally, to let it go.
