Maya Hawke, figlia d’arte di Ethan Hawke e Uma Thurman, è stata una delle rivelazioni della terza stagione di Stranger Things, che avremo il piacere di rivedere in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – il nuovo film di Quentin Tarantino.
Maya è un’artista poliedrica: attrice, modella e cantautrice, ha rilasciato i video dei brani Stay Open e To Love A Boy, arrangiati da Jesse Harris – già collaboratore, fra i tanti, di Lana del Rey e Norah Jones.
A Pitchfork ha detto a proposito di To Love A Boy:
After seeing the movie Call Me by Your Name for the second time, I left the theater and I was walking home to my apartment in Brooklyn, and I just started thinking about the images of water and the romantic feeling in that movie. I was just filled with this intense jealousy and desire be in love and feel that way. Then I wrote the lyrics to “To Love a Boy” as a poem, and I sent them to Jesse Harris, and he wrote that melody, and I loved it. It’s about this dream reality where you could love somebody in an all-consuming way, where it feels like when you’re swimming in the ocean on a hot summer day.
When I was brainstorming about the video, I started thinking about a mermaid coming ashore and wanting to love a boy as much as she loved the ocean. Then I decided the video would be more interesting if the love interest of the video was the ocean, and it was about her pursuit to get back to the ocean. I’m a professional actor, but I’m not a professional musician, so I wanted to do the whole thing really not professionally. So I spent all my own money to make the video and I had to rent the mermaid costume, which ended up being incredibly shitty, but in a way that I think is really funny.
