KRISTY RAM­NAR­INE

kristy.ram­nar­ine@cnc3.co.tt

Af­ter ig­nit­ing a vi­ral storm with Done With Your Ex, Ghana­ian-British hit­mak­er MOLIY is team­ing up with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s dancer and singer Glad­dest for a remix of two so­cial me­dia-dri­ven an­thems—Done With Your Ex and Shake It To The Max.

The remix, Glad­dest re­vealed, will ar­rive just be­fore MOLIY trav­els to Trinidad for the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val.

“Ghana and Trinidad and To­ba­go will be team­ing up for this remix,” said Glad­dest. “The remix will be out be­fore MOLIY lands in Trinidad for the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val. I will be meet­ing her for the first time then.”

Shake It to the Max Rid­dim (Fly) was orig­i­nal­ly re­leased in No­vem­ber 2024 by MOLIY and pro­duc­er Silent Ad­dy.

Shake It To The Max gained trac­tion on so­cial me­dia ear­li­er this year af­ter a remix fea­tur­ing Ja­maican artistes Shenseea and Skil­libeng dropped in March 2025. That ver­sion has since soared to num­ber one on the Bill­board US Afrobeats Songs chart, mark­ing a ca­reer first for MOLIY, Silent Ad­dy, Shenseea, and Skil­libeng.

Glad­dest, whose re­al name is Had­dyah Cyrus, jumped on the rid­dim with her freestyle Done With Your Ex. Her ver­sion sparked a vi­ral Tik­Tok dance chal­lenge, with over 2.5 mil­lion user-gen­er­at­ed videos. The track has al­so amassed 4.5 mil­lion views on YouTube.

“It’s an em­pow­er­ment song to help peo­ple re­mem­ber that some­times a break-up is not a bad thing,” said Glad­dest.

“Some­times it’s a bless­ing, some­times it’s the be­gin­ning of a next chap­ter in your life. And then some­times it is the be­gin­ning of your suc­cess sto­ry.”

Glad­dest cred­its her suc­cess to her moth­er, whose sup­port and ex­am­ple have long in­spired her.

“Since in my ear­ly teens I al­ways felt that women were so pow­er­ful and that stemmed from see­ing my mom han­dle sit­u­a­tions,” added Glad­dest.

“Women go through so much be­hind closed doors, but stand strong and han­dle things. That en­cour­ages me to be an ad­vo­cate for women.”

Done With Your Ex was writ­ten by Glad­dest’s man­ag­er, Ryan, of Con­tent King Cre­ations. Glad­dest ini­tial­ly rose to fame as a dancer on so­cial me­dia, which led to chore­og­ra­phy gigs for ma­jor dance­hall artistes, in­clud­ing Vy­bz Kar­tel, Skeng, and Valiant.

“I start­ed danc­ing when I was at Bish­op Anstey East High,” said Glad­dest.

“From there, I start­ed post­ing my videos on so­cial me­dia. That’s how I gained my sup­port­ers. Done With Your Ex is the sec­ond song I’ve done for 2025. The first song Mind Your Busi­ness was dropped dur­ing Car­ni­val. It did its wave, and I got sev­er­al op­por­tu­ni­ties. But when Done With Your Ex was re­leased and we start­ed pro­mot­ing it, it sky­rock­et­ed. The song is re­lat­able. Many peo­ple deal with their breakups be­hind closed doors. This song gives you a voice.”

Sev­er­al high-pro­file fig­ures have since joined the Done With Your Ex trend, in­clud­ing singer-song­writer Cia­ra, co­me­di­an B Si­mone, ac­tress Claire Holt, co­me­di­an and ac­tor King Bach, and nu­mer­ous YouTu­bers and Tik­Tok in­flu­encers.

“When Cia­ra did it, I was like ‘the heck’,” ex­claimed Glad­dest.

“I re­mem­ber when I was danc­ing to Lev­el up, lev­el up, lev­el up, lev­el up, lev­el up. I was like ‘Whaaattt’. It was re­al­ly some­thing, I was like ‘Wow, this song is re­al­ly mak­ing waves’. And in the com­ments sec­tion, peo­ple were writ­ing that this is a re­al­ly good song for her be­cause of her ex­pe­ri­ences in life.”

While mu­sic and en­ter­tain­ment have tak­en cen­tre stage in her life, Glad­dest had once set her sights on be­com­ing the Gov­er­nor of the Cen­tral Bank.

“I was able to bal­ance aca­d­e­mics and dance,” she said.

“I was a straight A stu­dent fin­ish­ing school with nine pass­es, while jug­gling my ex­tra-cur­ric­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ties–track and field, foot­ball and dance. Al­so, the so­cial and dra­ma clubs. I am very hap­py that I had my mom be­cause my dad felt that I need­ed to fo­cus on aca­d­e­mics.

“I have two sides–the artis­tic, cre­ative side and the nerdy side. I love fi­nance and ac­count­ing, but my pas­sion for dance was more pow­er­ful; ac­count­ing, how­ev­er, helps me in the en­ter­tain­ment field.”

As Done With Your Ex con­tin­ues to trend glob­al­ly, Glad­dest is al­ready be­ing booked for a tour across the Caribbean, the Unit­ed King­dom, and Eu­rope.