Maiya Blaney → Honey, i

Maiya Blaney shares her new song “Honey I” a claustrophobically intimate and sweet ballad about psychological descent into all encompassing fear.

Maiya ruminates on the process and songwriting; “‘Honey, I’ is one of the most vulnerable, doubtful, and unsure songs I’ve ever written. It was this feeling that felt endless, a never ending sinking. And I was like, I don’t even want to find a way out of this because I don’t know if I can right now. I just need to name it.

The song and its visuals are all opposites attracting. I’m smashing shit to bits to what sounds like a lullaby. The production is slowed down jungle drums in the pocket of what would otherwise be a lonely acoustic guitar ballad. There are moments of play and performance (to camera) in the video and also moments of pure rage that I didn’t even know would make it in. And mainly, to one of the sweetest sounding songs I’ve written in the last 2 years, I’m admitting some of the saddest fears I’ve ever had about myself.”

Stream → Honey, i