“Hi! Thank you for meeting with me. I’m sorry I’m a little sick, but thanks for rescheduling and thanks for talking to me…” In her first sentence to me, Maya
“Hi! Thank you for meeting with me. I’m sorry I’m a little sick, but thanks for rescheduling and thanks for talking to me…” In her first sentence to me,has already thanked me three times, which I come to realize is a reflection of her empath superpowers and her disarmingly genuine graciousness and generosity. I’m the last one to the Zoom, but instead of being put off, she’s thanking me . Still recovering from a bug, she sits up in bed in her dark button-down pajamas with white piping.
Although Hawke’s candid, personal lyrics are evident from her earliest recordings, she’s sharing even more on Chaos Angel. On this record, we get to hear more of Hawke’s own musicality. It’s a musicality that she was expressing as early as age eight, when she started writing her own songs “But I just rewrote the lyrics to asong, so I don’t know if that means anything, but then I wrote another song called Purple and Yellow,” says Hawke.
Another part of that interesting rub between the high production values and experimentation in “Chaos Angel” lies in the lack of manipulation on much of Hawke’s vocals. Her vocal delivery, which is certainly nuanced, deliberate, and artful, is at the same time raw, up close and personal, often leaving in the inhalations and other mouth noises that might be edited out by other pop artists or producers.
She explains how, as a teenager, “I would talk a lot about the darkest stuff that was happening in my life right away when I met someone, and I realized at a certain point that that was a defense mechanism and that it wasn’t true openness. It was me going, ‘I’m worried you might think this about me so I’m gonna make sure you know that I know it about myself, and I’m worried you might do this so I’m gonna tell you this so you feel bad for me.
When I bring up how much being there for people and being a good friend seems important to her, she responds immediately. “I think it’s everything about being alive. I mean I think that basically being alive is about finding people that you trust and that trust you and trying to be there for them, and I think that’s pretty much everything, and, like, working through difficult times and relationships to get to times where you’re stronger,” she says. “I guess I don’t like to give up on people.
I’m taking this ferocity of commitment to relationships of all kinds to mean that Hawke also doesn’t give up on herself or her songwriting, which is great for us, because we’ll have a lot more music to discover with her as she continues to evolve and explore. As to what future albums might look like, Hawke says, “I think my curiosity is just leaning more and more toward the folk tradition. What I mean by that is simple songs, simple chords, simple stories.
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