To the surprise of no one, Maya Hawke has made a few recent appearances over in our Film/TV section, so it was fairly inevitable the multi-hyphenate would eventually show up in our Music section as well. The daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman is busy prepping her third album, Chaos Angel, set for a May 31 release via Mom+Pop, and today (April 24) unveils an elegant folk-pop ballad called “Hang In There” that’s sure to give the kitten dangling on a branch some much-needed inspiration.
A tender and delicate track with an ethereal air to it, “Hang In There” is billed as a support-system for a friend trapped in a toxic relationship, and arrives complete with a lyric video that illuminates the sentiment.
“The idea of ‘Hang In There’ is when you have someone close to you, who’s going through something awful that you’ve been through earlier in your life, and you know that you can’t interfere because they’ll probably isolate themselves from you,” Hawke reveals. “So you have to just watch as they get really hurt. Until they have that moment where they realize they’ve been in a toxic situation all along. Then they come to you, and together, you help them emerge from it. It’s a moment of real happiness when you can witness the pieces all click into place.”
Take hold below.