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Pop · DevelopingFP-016 · Side B

Tina Win Keeps It Under Three Minutes

Five songs, fourteen minutes, her own company on the copyright line. The She Knows EP is a tight, self-owned statement from a pop artist who came to music from the magazine world.

By Staff Writer · October 8, 2026 · 4 min read

Disclosure: First Press operates independently but shares ownership ties with LUSIVEX, which works with Tina Win.

Tina Win's She Knows EP has five songs and not one of them reaches the three-minute mark. "Chaos", "In The Dark", "Revenge", "She Knows" and "Running In Place" all land between 2:36 and 2:49. The whole record is over in about fourteen minutes. For a developing pop artist, that economy is a choice, and it is the first thing worth noticing about her.

Where she came from

Win is a Romanian-American singer-songwriter, raised in New Jersey, who worked in magazines before she worked in music. An EIN Presswire release carried by WBOC lists editorial time at Allure and Cosmopolitan, and a partner feature on Rolling Stone UK's site adds work behind the scenes at Fashion Week. That background shows in how deliberately the project is packaged: a run of singles, each one setting up the next, then a short EP that pulls the threads together.

Since the debut, every release has carried her own company on the copyright line, Tina Win Music LLC. Per the press release, she founded it and owns her masters.

The run so far

According to Apple Music:

The press release frames the earlier songs as three sides of one personality: "Try Anything" as the confident one, "Wallflower" as the vulnerable one, "One Night Renegade" as the cinematic one. The EP is meant to put them in the same room.

The EP

Skylar Mones produced and co-wrote She Knows, according to the release. The title song arrived first, as a July single, and "Chaos" was out two months before that, so the EP is part new material and part collection. In the release Win sums up the theme plainly: "She Knows is about getting to the point where you stop waiting for someone else to tell you who you are or what you should be."

The running times do a lot of the arguing. Short pop songs used to be a radio requirement; now they are mostly a streaming habit, built to keep a listener from skipping. In a profile published on Nylon's site in July, she put the goal this way: "I'm not interested in perfection," adding, "I'm interested in truth that you can dance to."

Live and online

The Rolling Stone UK piece records a two-song set for invited press and guests at CHOWK NYC on July 24, 2025, the day after "Try Anything" came out. Her music sits on Spotify and her YouTube channel, and she is on Instagram as @thetinawin.

Why it is worth watching

Plenty of new artists talk about ownership. Fewer build the release calendar around it the way Win has: six releases in fourteen months, all under her own name and company, and an EP that knows exactly how long it wants to be. The open question is the next step. A fourteen-minute EP is a calling card. A full-length record would show whether the economy holds over a longer stretch, and whether the three personalities the press release describes can share an album as well as they share an EP.

FP-016 · SIDE B · FIRST PRESS · OCTOBER 8, 2026