“Sofia Coppola’s daughter – Romy Mars – has released a music video(Picture: Youtube) Sofia Coppola’s daughter Romy Mars is 18 years old, absurdly well-connected, and, according to her new song, totally disillusioned with it all. The daughter of the Oscar-winning director and French musician Thomas Mars, and granddaughter of The Godfather legend Francis Ford Coppola”, — write: metro.co.uk
Sofia Coppola’s daughter – Romy Mars – has released a music video(Picture: Youtube) Sofia Coppola’s daughter Romy Mars is 18 years old, absurdly well-connected, and, according to her new song, totally disillusioned with it all.
The daughter of the Oscar-winning director and French musician Thomas Mars, and granddaughter of The Godfather legend Francis Ford Coppola, Romy has just released her debut single A-Lister.
The track takes aim at the gilded cage of privilege she’s been raised in, but many are divided on whether it’s a salient satire or an out-of-touch cry for attention from a spoiled nepo baby.
‘My world is heartless, tasteless, nameless, famous,’ she sings in the chorus, her voice floating over polished production.
The lyrics are blunt: red carpets are hollow, wealth is numbing, and fame is boring.
‘Recreate scenes from Titanic on a flying bridge yacht / Just to feel something real,’ she sighs, painting a picture of a decadent yet unhappy childhood.
Romy is a fully-fledged ‘nepo grandbaby,’ part of a dynasty that includes cousin Nicolas Cage, aunt Talia Shire, and cousin Gia Coppola. She was scouted by Marc Jacobs at 13, sits front row at fashion weeks, and has been a fixture at galas and film festivals since before she could vote.
So it’s no surprise that reactions to A-Listers have been mixed.
Some praised the track for its self-aware tone, calling Romy ‘meta,’ ‘fresh,’ or even ‘a Gen Z Lana Del Rey with a trust fund.’
One fan wrote under the music video on Youtube: ‘So talented so good so fun!!! The women in this family are oh so creative and gifted and you are making your name for yourself, in your own right, with this song 🙂 Go Romy Go!!!’
Another agreed: ‘I love this kind of nepo baby I’m obsessed!’
The song is called A-Lister (Picture: A-Lister/romymarsss) 
It takes aim at the privileged lives of nepo babies (Picture: A-Lister/romymarsss) But others saw it as tone-deaf. ‘It’s tasteless to call your multitudes of wealth that you didn’t earn “a bore,”‘ another YouTube comment reads.
Another is blunter: ‘Talentless, insufferable, overproduced nepo-baby garbage.’
Adding to the buzz is the music video, directed by none other than her mother, Sofia Coppola, whose career has long explored themes of isolation, excess, and the invisible weight of being young, beautiful, and trapped.
In Lost in Translation, it was Scarlett Johansson’s disaffected newlywed. In The Bling Ring, it was teens robbing celebrities to get closer to fame.
In A-Listers, it’s her own daughter, lip-syncing in designer clothes, escaping to West Coast mansions and party scenes with a blank stare and heavy lashes.
The irony is built in, and maybe (hopefully) intentional.
It’s not the first time Romy has gone viral for poking at the absurdity of her own life.
In 2023, she caused an internet frenzy with a now-deleted TikTok video in which she tried to cook pasta while explaining she was grounded for attempting to charter a helicopter on her dad’s credit card to visit a friend in Maryland.
Sofia Coppola directed the music video (Picture: Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) 
Romy previously went viral for a TikTok about getting grounded for using her dad’s credit card to harter a helicopter (Picture: Dominik Bindl/Getty Images) The clip earned millions of views. ‘They don’t want me to be a nepotism kid,’ she said, referring to her parents’ social media ban.
Sofia later told The Hollywood Reporter she was none too pleased by the moment. ‘She’s funny,’ she allowed. ‘But people discussing my parenting publicly is not what I would’ve hoped for.’
Still, for all the pushback, there’s something undeniably compelling about Romy Mars. Like many young artists raised in rarefied air, she’s testing how much of that identity she can claim, subvert, or escape from.
Is she self-aware? Spoiled? Satirical? All three? Or just 18, trying to process a life most people couldn’t dream of, and probably shouldn’t envy?
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