Maya Hawke Has Shared a Music Video For Her New Track ‘Sweet Tooth’
The ‘Sweet Tooth’ music video stars Maya Hawke visiting the dentist. The new track is from her forthcoming album, ‘Moss’.
‘Moss’ will be the musician and actor’s second album and is a follow-up to 2020’s ‘Blush’, which will be released next month.
The music video for ‘Sweet Tooth’ follows Hawke as she visits the dentist and passes out from laughing gas anesthesia, into a dream in which her friends are conducting a beachside memorial service for her. According to a press statement from the director Celine Sutter: “‘Sweet Tooth’ was born out of conversations with Maya about the song, the album and the unique feel of sweetness, cavity, death and joy. We discussed care, caretaking and childhood-adult friendships.”
“In the edit, we found the deconstructed nature of the dream with the behind-the-scenes footage – as if Maya was participating in the making of, and the theatre of, her own funeral. ‘Sweet Tooth’ is a trippy, playful video that embraces the dichotomy of its themes: a joyful and melancholic funeral, a fake dream world with real footage, care and loneliness, sweetness and pain.”
Hawke added of the song itself: “‘Sweet Tooth’ was the last song written for ‘Moss’. The lyrics were written in Atlanta while filming, but Christian [Lee Hutson] and I recorded the first demo in Nashville. When we finished the first recording session, I felt this eruption of joy and I knew this feeling had to be on the record.”
On 23rd September, Mom+Pop will release the album ‘Moss,’ which includes the previous single ‘Thérèse.’
Hawke revealed in an interview with NME last month that the majority of the new album was written from the perspective of her high school self and contains songs she wished she’d written when she was 15.
“In the acting world, you often get cast to play 14 at 16, 16 at 20 – what’s cool about that is you know a lot more about what it means to be 14 when you’re 16,” she said. “So, I’ve been taking that ethos and using it in my music.”
—Silviya.Y
