By chance, 4vd found success as a musician. He spent his early adolescent years uploading brief videos of himself playing Fortnite on YouTube under the handle Limit Ant, with his videos collecting a total of over 15 million views. In the truest of Gen Z job objectives, he grew up wanting to be a professional video game player. He started creating his own music on the social music site BandLab to satisfy the need for non-copyrighted music in his Fortnite montages, and this completely altered his perspective.
David Burke, better known by the stage name d4vd, has kept up his covert Soundcloud uploading throughout the past year. The beachy indie feel of his early songs, such as “Here With Me,” “You and I,” and “Take Me To The Sun,” is more in line with artists like Wallows and Rex Orange County than the soaring, richly detailed emo of his most recent single, “Romantic Homicide.” The song has been a breakthrough for d4vd; it made its US Billboard Hot 100 debut, has received over 75 million streams, and is now trending on TikTok.
