From TikToks to Music Tours: Chloe Ament ‘25 Releases Her New EP and Takes Her Music on Stage
After years of collaborating with her older brother and band, and releasing her music, Chloe Ament ‘25 shares her music journey and how she has grown into the indie pop success she is now.
Since 2021, Chloe Ament ‘25 has been releasing her music and growing in massive popularity. What started as a few videos she shared on TikTok has evolved into a music career that has allowed her to take what she learned working with her older brother and at York College of Pennsylvania and transform it into a personal brand.
“Now I’m able to do music and use what I learned to market myself and create a brand and write music, which is so much fun,” Ament said.
According to her website, she has amassed 30,000 followers on Instagram, 123,000 followers on TikTok, more than 300,000 listeners on Spotify, and more than 126,000 listeners on Apple Music. As the numbers continue to climb, Ament will also be going on tour in November 2025 to perform her music.
As she prepares to embark on this next step in her music career, Ament takes a step back to shares how she discovered her passion for music and how she has become the musician she is today.
Creative Roots
Ament’s decision to attend York College stemmed from her family’s alumni legacy there. Her parents, two of her aunts, uncle, and her older brother, Patrick, all went there and had positive experiences at the college. She was also drawn to the college’s affordability and its writing program.
It had been Ament's goal to become a writer since she was young. And thanks to the support of York College’s writing department professors, Ament was able to grow as a writer and learned how to find her voice in her words, something that became very important later on in her creative pursuits.
“Those professors were truly amazing,” Ament said. “Every single class, they just encouraged artistry and creativity in a way that was so freeing. There was never any pressure to be better than the person next to you. The only kind of pressure you ever felt was an encouragement to discover the voice that you were given and the voice that you were born with, rather than trying to emulate somebody else’s.”
Her experiences with creative writing also taught Ament a great deal about songwriting. She shared that her favorite genre was nonfiction writing, mainly because it taught her that her story may not perfectly align with another person’s story, but that doesn’t make it any less valuable.
Ament graduated from York College in 2025 as a Professional Writing major with minors in Creative Writing and the Music Industry. Shortly after, Ament put all of her attention into preparing the release of her new album and began substitute teaching at a high school near Baltimore.
Sharing Music Together on TikTok
Ament had been writing songs for as long as she could remember. During the COVID-19 pandemic, her high school friend group decided to start a band for fun. Although they eventually separated, they continued to work on their music independently and write songs.
Following that break, Ament started a Harry Potter TikTok account in 2020/2021. After some time, the account hit 10,000 followers.
Ament’s brother, Patrick Ament ‘24, another YCP alum, Music Industry and Recording Technology major, and a member of the original band, suggested that now that she had an audience, she should release one of the songs they had written together. If it did well, they could keep releasing more. So, Ament released her first song, marketing it as having its origins based on a book she had read, and was happy to see that it was very well-received.
“There was never this intentional pursuit of being a musician or entering the music industry,” Ament said. “I have always been very academically-driven. I wanted to get my degree. I wanted to either be an English teacher for high school students, or I wanted to be an editor or publisher, or something like that. Being a musician was never something I wanted to do, but it was just this thing that kept popping up in my life.”
Part of Ament’s success comes from the support that her brother, Patrick, provided for her. The siblings are very close, being 14 months apart and often having the same friend circles. Ament described herself as the ‘quiet sister’ while her brother was more the ‘take charge’ kind of person.
The idea to make music together stemmed from them realizing that while they could each individually make music, the other had something they couldn’t supply themselves with when writing their music.
“I think we just realized that our dynamic, we complemented each other a lot,” Ament said. “So we became even closer through all of that. And we were best friends for a while. Then you get older, you grow apart, but we’re still very close.”
Although he lives in York and has begun producing for other artists and releasing his own music, Patrick continues to work as Ament’s producer and music director, and they co-write all their material.
Song Storytelling
When asked about how she would describe her music, Ament says it is “cinematic” and incorporates elements of pop, worship music, and sometimes live rock. Most of all, her songs have a heavy emphasis on storytelling, as many of them are based on books and other media she has been exposed to.
Ament believes much of her inspiration came from the daily lives and actions of other people she observes and interacts with. Especially during her junior and senior years of high school, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ament leaned into movies and books as escapism that evolved into inspiration, which she later drew upon for her writing and lyrics.
The initial draft of her first song, “Alternate Ending,” was based on “Outer Banks.”
Her first EP, “Broken Bodies, Broken Hearts,” was inspired by Harry Potter, specifically the Marauders fandom, which fans developed into a niche story that they enjoy exploring. Ament and Partick took their favorite parts and “soundtracked” them based on what they thought the fandom would want the most.
Some of Ament’s favorite songs include “Evangeline,” “Red in the Water,” and “Don’t Wanna Dance.” Another favorite is a song she wrote in 2022 about Jo and Laurie from Little Women.
Now, Ament’s latest project is her latest EP, which was released in three “chapters” for the full album. The first part was released in June 2025, right after she graduated, which was about her coming of age and growing before, during, and after college and feeling your early twenties.
The second part, released in August 2025, was all about heartbreak and felt much more folk-like than her other songs, and most closely resembled her in terms of sound.
The final part, which was recently released on October 31, 2025, was a conclusion.
“It’s basically tying up all of the loose ends in the album,” Ament said. “The songs tend to be thematically a little bit more about closure, so it’s kind of the acceptance of, ‘I don’t have the answers. I don’t know why this terrible thing happened to me or to you. I don’t know what growing up even means. But wow, isn’t life beautiful?’”
The entire EP was incredibly special to Ament, especially with how personal the music was to her and what she hoped to accomplish with it.
“It’s the first project that I’ve ever fully released that is about myself and inspired by my own life,” she said. “And I was really scared at first because I thought people would only stick around for books, but I was able to lean into my faith a lot more with songs like “Red in the Water” and “Thomas,” and there’s a third song on the third EP, so that was really emboldening, and I think it was something that I needed to do for a while, just because it helps me.”
“The more that I write about something as a song, it helps me really embrace it as part of my story rather than compartmentalizing it and saying, ‘well, maybe this happened, maybe this didn’t happen,’” Ament continued. “When I write about it, it becomes more concrete for me; it’s easy for me to conceptualize this as part of Chloe Ament’s context and her personal history, so it was really validating to be able to write and release an album that was not about books and to see it get such a warm reception from my audience.”
Upcoming Tour
For the month of November 2025, Ament and her band will be going on tour, starting in Philadelphia, PA, and traveling across the states.
“I’m very excited,” Ament said. “Me and my band have been dreaming of this tour for a year and a half.”
This isn’t the first time Ament has gone on tour - exactly two years ago, she and her band did a small tour. It was while she was still in college, balancing schoolwork and her music, and she is excited to fully invest her energy in her music and tell her story.
“I think that musically and relationally and individually, we have grown so much since our last tour,” Ament said. “We have a much better idea of what to expect. I think my sound and the show that I put together is much more exciting this time around because there’s actually a story that I want to tell.”
“The whole set list is this fun reimagining of some of the popular songs that I’ve already put out and the album that I’m releasing. And I think that’s going to be super cool. I am very excited.”
Finding Her Faith
Ament has faced several challenges while creating her music, and most of them stem from an identity crisis she often battles within herself.
“With doing work that is primarily on social media, there is a lot of temptation all the time to base my success or my worth or to define who I am as an artist on the number of streams that I get, the followers that I get, the views that I get, all that stuff,” Ament said. “That has been something that so consistently discourages me, and I’ve still seen such an encouraging amount of excitement around my music. And I’ve seen so much success, and I’ve been so blessed to see the continual growth on my platform, which over four years, that’s amazing.”
She struggled to find something stronger to believe in than her music, as there are periods when things are going well, and other times, she becomes disappointed when some of her work doesn’t perform as well as she had hoped.
Ament wanted to look for something deeper, something that would adapt to her constant changes. There is no guaranteed security in social media, so she is looking for other ways to grow, and her faith has been a steadfast guide for her during those times.
“I think for me, it’s been a challenge in terms of identity to find something deeper to root myself in,” she said. “I think I’ve leaned really far into my faith because of that, and I’m so grateful for how God has met me through all of this and how I’ve been able to come away with this sense of identity that is so empowering and so steadfast, even when I despise myself or even when I am embarrassed by the reception that I’m not getting that I thought I would be getting or tempted to judge myself based on a bunch of numbers.”
After the tour, Ament plans to take a break from social media and return to her songwriting roots, free from the pressure of producing constant work.
“I have realized that I have a much healthier approach to music when it is like a side hustle rather than the thing that I eat, sleep, and breathe,” Ament said.
Though she is not sure what the future will hold for her, she is hoping to potentially put out a special edition for her first EP “Daisies” since its five-year anniversary will be next September 2026.
Embracing Imperfections
When it comes to her supporters, Ament knows one of her biggest ones will always be her brother, Patrick.
“He’s someone who, even though I have been a menace at times, has been extremely loyal and dutiful, and I really respect him and love him for that,” she said.
Her parents have also been constants in her corner. They have always been very kind and supportive, and have always understood the type of support Ament needs comes from reminding her that she is more than just her music and to take care of herself. The same goes for her band, who have been incredibly helpful and encouraging.
When it comes to advice for those pursuing music, Ament advises against expecting perfection or waiting for a “perfect” moment to start writing or working.
“If you wait for the perfect song, for the perfect time, the perfect sound, it’s never going to come,” she said.
Just because a piece of work is not perfect and “finished” in a flawless way, that doesn’t mean it’s bad; artistry isn’t found in perfection.
“No human is perfect; artistry is found in imperfections and in flaws,” she said. “That’s what makes everything so unique, and that’s what makes everybody’s voice so valuable.”
Individuals should find value in themselves outside of the music. Success will ebb and flow, but if they have a strong sense of identity that is separate from what it is they’re creating and whatever kind of validation they’re receiving from an audience, those numbers will matter less and less over time.
Eventually, it will lead to discovering new parts of oneself.
“As long as you have a strong sense of identity that is separate from what it is you’re creating and whatever kind of validation you’re receiving from an audience, those numbers will matter less and less and less over time, and you will find yourself leaning into a brave new sound or a brave new part of yourself that you never would have explored before had you been hung up on commercialism," Ament said.
Check out her songs and music videos on Chloe Ament's YouTube channel, then visit the official Chloe Ament tour page to see her tour dates and order tickets.
