{"id":2424,"date":"2023-05-17T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2023-05-16T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:48:10","slug":"honey-mooncie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/articles\/honey-mooncie","title":{"rendered":"Honey Mooncie on Creating Music Under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You never quite know where a song is going to come from, what the exact inspiration might be. For <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/5GACks0pdDAgyd63kXBJFk?si=U_cWXm-6S6CFhir5IXgxmg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Honey Mooncie<\/a>, the process has been a natural one, mostly focused on poetry and lyrics. \u201cMy dad always said I was really feeling things from a young age,\u201d she said. \u201cI think [writing] was the best outlet for me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now at the age of 20, the Brighton, England artist has been steadily making a name for herself as a singer songwriter, blending elements of neo-soul, R&amp;B, and pop into her dreamy 2021 debut, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To Whom It May Concern<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cIt\u2019s still coming from a place of poetry,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Honey Mooncie and her collaborator and partner Sam Dembowicz joined us for the Sofar Artist in Residency, spending a month living in London at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uncle.co.uk\/elephant-castle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UNCLE Elephant &amp; Castle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, taking time to write and perform Sofar shows around the city.\u00a0 \u201c\u2019I\u2019m [typically] working my music around work rather than the other way around,\u201d Honey Mooncie said. \u201cIt was the perfect month away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During her time in London, Honey Mooncie was presented with the opportunity to write a new track for International Women\u2019s Day. The challenge was finding inspiration within the timeline. \u201cThe most unexpected thing was being able to deliver a whole song in a three week turnaround,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honey Mooncie and her partner got to work, spending their evenings honing in on what became <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/7nTGPM05RZwRghByrXnHzV?si=4df7978d7da941f8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAddicted To Your Games<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d,\u00a0 a jazz-kissed pop tune.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was nice, it\u2019s so easy to overthink the way you\u2019re writing a song, whether the lyrics are good enough, or if it\u2019s too cheesy, [and] the production is a whole other kettle of fish,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honey Mooncie continued:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou can just overthink it so much, whereas because we had the one day, we were like \u2018whatever goes, that\u2019s just what\u2019s happening.\u2019 It worked really well, I\u2019m so happy with the track. It\u2019s quite nice knowing if I ever want to do that again, that challenge, I could.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See Honey Mooncie\u2019s process of creating \u201cAddicted To Your Games\u201d at UNCLE below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sofar Stories: Honey Mooncie takes on songwriting challenge\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/24KGFiPiI9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ready to hear new music? <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/\"><b>Discover shows near you.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Sofar Editorial Team<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Honey Mooncie, photo by Alix Olivero<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never quite know where a song is going to come from, what the exact inspiration might be. For Honey Mooncie, the process has been a natural one, mostly focused on poetry and lyrics. \u201cMy dad always said I was really feeling things from a young age,\u201d she said. \u201cI think [writing] was the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[320],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-honey-mooncie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}