dān dān Announces Everything, Everywhere, All at Once-Inspired Music Video for Single ‘Pressure Cooker’
dān dān Announces Everything, Everywhere, All at Once-Inspired Music Video for Single ‘Pressure Cooker’
June 26th, 2025
Chinese-Pākehā artist dān dān (Ersha Island 二沙岛) has unveiled her long-awaited music video for folk-pop single ‘pressure cooker’.
Danielle Hao-Aickin’s solo work debuted last November to widespread media praise and radio interest (see below).
The music video was directed by Flora Xie, produced by Natasha Skuljan and made with the support of NZ On Air. Inspired by the transformative film Everything Everywhere All At Once, the video spans multiple locations in its exploration of mother-daughter tensions. It even features MasterChef 2022 Winner Sam Low as a waiter.
The music video begins in a Malaysian restaurant, pulling dān dān through other strange universes such as a laundromat, bar and one where she’s an Uber Eats driver, as she chases after her mother— but never quite catching up. “No version of her stops, no version of me feels enough,” Hao-Aickin reflects.
She continues, “In many ways, it reflects the unspoken pressure between my mum and I – the weight of expectations, the love that’s there but often buried under generations of misunderstanding, the cultural gaps no matter how hard I try. The more I run, the further away she feels.”
The final scenes show dān dān in the rain, “alone and unable to catch up” before the “story loops back“. “I return to the restaurant, and this time, she’s there. We embrace. No dramatic reveal. And maybe, for now, that’s enough,” she shares.
The single was produced by Dan Martin (Jordyn With A Why) and co-written with ASHY and Huiming Wu (花溪 Flowerstream) at BIG FAN’s Fan Camp: Pan-Asian last April, with sister Tee joining on violin.
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Photo credit: Struan Caughey