Joyce Cissé, known professionally as flowerovlove, is an English singer, songwriter and producer from London. She debuted in 2020 and has since released three EPs. She won Artist to Watch at the 2022 A&R Awards and New Artist at the 2024 Music Week Women in Music Awards. In 2022, she was named one of VEVO's Artists to Watch and The Forty Five's Future Five, and named Future Artist of the Month by BBC Radio 1 in 2023. Cissé was born in London to Ivorian parents and grew up in South London and Essex, speaking Mandingo at home. In 2022, she was attending a sixth-form college where she was pursuing A Levels in English, French, and History. Interested in pop from a young age, Cissé grew up in listening to Frank Ocean, One Direction, and Justin Bieber as well as ABBA and Boney M through her mother. She said One Direction's "Best Song Ever" helped her realise the "power of music… and creative visuals", as the group "didn't just release a song, they released a world". As she grew older, she developed an interest in indie music, citing Tame Impala as one of her main influences, particularly their albums Lonerism and Currents, as well as the Strokes and Strawberry Guy. She told Wonderland in December 2021: What sparked my interest to start making it was how I felt listening to other people's music such as Frank Ocean, Tame Impala, especially, and the nostalgia I get from One Direction. I want to re-create that feeling of nostalgia. Arielle Lana LeJarde of The Fader and Daphne Chouliaraki Milner of Atmos described Cissé's initial work as a blend of different genre influences, including bedroom pop, trap, neo-soul, dream pop, indie rock, pop punk, and psychedelic. Ella Chadwick of Hunger corroborated that Cissé's second EP had "an injection of pop punk". Regarding her 2024 singles, Cissé told Flood magazine: "I've always wanted to go a little bit more pop, but there will always be a twang of alternative". One of them, "breaking news", was inspired by Rex Orange County's "Loving Is Easy". In an interview with NME in the lead up to her third EP, a series of "glitter gel pen" pop love songs, Cissé talked about the assumption she has a "Willow Smith or a soul vibe" because "I don't make that kind of music, I make pop... there's a space to be filled for a Black girl in pop".