Meet Sofia Coppola's Daughter, Pop Star In-The-Making Romy Mars
17-year-old Romy Mars has made appearances alongside her acclaimed mother and grandfather at high-profile events like New York Fashion Week and Cannes Film Festival, but who is the pop star as she's just beginning her career?
Romy Mars, daughter of Sofia Coppola and musician Thomas Mars, is back on the Internet following the release of a brand new EP. In "Stuck Up" and "From a Distance," Mars takes on a bedroom pop sound, with the help of beloved indie producer Claud, complimented by her soft, confessional style of vocals.
The teen pop star-to-be has been the subject of recent attention by the press, as she attended the Cannes Film Festival red carpet premiere for Megalopolis, the highly anticipated passion project by her grandfather—Francis Ford Coppola—that has been almost 40 years in the making. Mars sported a simple, yet effortlessly chic strapless black gown and natural-looking glam to the premiere as she walked the famous stairs and supported her grandfather.
While she was raised primarily out of the spotlight, the 2024 Cannes Film Festival is not the first high-profile event she's attended, but rather the latest in a string of ultra-chic gatherings over the past year. In September 2023, Mars tagged along as her mother attended several fashion week shows and events, including the Anna Sui Spring/Summer 2024 runway show. Although Coppola has explained in the past that she is not fond of the idea of raising her daughters in the spotlight, it seems she has shifted her viewpoint slightly in recent months. “I don’t want them to ever feel jaded and I’ve never seen the value of taking kids to premieres or things like that,” she told The Guardian in 2017.
Just a year after she went viral on TikTok after she made an account behind her parents' backs, Mars is back on the app. Last year, fans heard Mars say in a now deleted TikTok: “Make a vodka sauce pasta with me because I’m grounded because I tried to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland on my dad’s credit card because I wanted to visit a camp friend” in her one and only post. “They don’t want me to be a nepotism kid but TikTok’s not gonna make me famous,” she continued as she cooked. Although Internet users are quick to label children of celebrities as annoying or whiny, Mars' viral video had the opposite effect, with newly accrued followers praising her relatability and sense of dry humor.
Mars is far from the only nepo baby to launch a music career as a teenager, but online, fans have decided she's on a level of her own. Mars opted for a genre that fits her voice, with a dream-pop sound and floaty, romantic lyrics, resulting in an EP that draws in fans of its own accord, not just based on the allure of Mars' name and family history.
Ahead of her 18th birthday and a world of opportunities awaiting her, Romy Mars is venturing back onto the Internet, where fans are already labeling her "the people's princess" and "the nepo baby we need, want, and deserve" in her mother's Instagram comments.
