Miya Folick Shares New Single 'Elton John'
Los Angeles-based artist Miya Folick returns with her most personal release to date, "Elton John""a hauntingly beautiful tribute to loss, memory, and the enduring power of music. Written in the wake of her father's passing, the track captures the aching disorientation of grief, the intimacy of shared musical lineage, and the lingering presence of a loved one. It weaves this deep emotional current together with atmospheric textures and raw lyricism.
Folick explains, "After my dad died, I spent the following weeks at my parents' house, getting used to the idea of calling it 'mom's house' and helping her plan the funeral. The first time I came back up to LA, I drove aimlessly through the city, listening to music and crying. I felt the presence of my dad as a young man, living in Los Angeles just like me, loving music just like me. We were different in many ways, but my dad and I could always connect through music. When I had a show at the Troubadour, my dad was excited because he'd been going there since he was a teenager. He liked talking about how he saw Elton John play there in 1970. What an iconic moment. What a part of music history. That's where the title and the idea of this song comes from. 'Elton John' is a song about grief and Los Angeles, and how the people we love are so richly present after we lose them."
LISTEN + SHARE: MIYA FOLICK "ELTON JOHN"
https://miyafolick.ffm.to/eltonjohn
The single will be featured on an upcoming Deluxe version of Folick's self-produced third album, Erotica Veronica. The record is her psychosexual, psychosensual masterstroke: a kaleidoscopic portrait of self-realization and integration. There is a dilemma that haunts the record. There is a partner on the receiving end of these confessions. The song and the album seem to wonder: What is the right thing to do when your desires are more complex than the narrow channel our culture allows? "The album is about being queer within a heteronormative relationship structure and within a heteronormative society, but it's also just about desire and eroticism in general. I don't think we give each other enough room to explore freely and figure out our own right paths," she says. It features contributions from Sam KS (Youth Lagoon, Angel Olsen) as co-producer and drummer, Meg Duffy (Hand Habits, Perfume Genius), Waylon Rector (Dominic Fike, Charli XCX), and Greg Uhlmann (Perfume Genius, SML) on guitar, and Pat Kelly (Perfume Genius, Levi Turner) on bass.
After a meteoric couple of years touring, including her own headline runs and support for Mitski, Faye Webster, Father John Misty, and The Japanese House, Folick will join Maren Morris on tour this week for select dates and will join Peach Pit on their East Coast Fall tour. Tickets are available now via miyafolick.com.
Miya Folick is also in theaters with the indie animation Boys Go To Jupiter, which she stars in as Rozebud and penned/performs the feature's title track. She has previously scored the feature film Cora Bora, directed by Hannah Utt and featuring Meg Stalter (Hacks), and has had her music featured in shows like Netflix's Heartstopper and Apple Original's The Buccaneers' soundtrack.
Folick explains, "After my dad died, I spent the following weeks at my parents' house, getting used to the idea of calling it 'mom's house' and helping her plan the funeral. The first time I came back up to LA, I drove aimlessly through the city, listening to music and crying. I felt the presence of my dad as a young man, living in Los Angeles just like me, loving music just like me. We were different in many ways, but my dad and I could always connect through music. When I had a show at the Troubadour, my dad was excited because he'd been going there since he was a teenager. He liked talking about how he saw Elton John play there in 1970. What an iconic moment. What a part of music history. That's where the title and the idea of this song comes from. 'Elton John' is a song about grief and Los Angeles, and how the people we love are so richly present after we lose them."
LISTEN + SHARE: MIYA FOLICK "ELTON JOHN"
https://miyafolick.ffm.to/eltonjohn
The single will be featured on an upcoming Deluxe version of Folick's self-produced third album, Erotica Veronica. The record is her psychosexual, psychosensual masterstroke: a kaleidoscopic portrait of self-realization and integration. There is a dilemma that haunts the record. There is a partner on the receiving end of these confessions. The song and the album seem to wonder: What is the right thing to do when your desires are more complex than the narrow channel our culture allows? "The album is about being queer within a heteronormative relationship structure and within a heteronormative society, but it's also just about desire and eroticism in general. I don't think we give each other enough room to explore freely and figure out our own right paths," she says. It features contributions from Sam KS (Youth Lagoon, Angel Olsen) as co-producer and drummer, Meg Duffy (Hand Habits, Perfume Genius), Waylon Rector (Dominic Fike, Charli XCX), and Greg Uhlmann (Perfume Genius, SML) on guitar, and Pat Kelly (Perfume Genius, Levi Turner) on bass.
After a meteoric couple of years touring, including her own headline runs and support for Mitski, Faye Webster, Father John Misty, and The Japanese House, Folick will join Maren Morris on tour this week for select dates and will join Peach Pit on their East Coast Fall tour. Tickets are available now via miyafolick.com.
Miya Folick is also in theaters with the indie animation Boys Go To Jupiter, which she stars in as Rozebud and penned/performs the feature's title track. She has previously scored the feature film Cora Bora, directed by Hannah Utt and featuring Meg Stalter (Hacks), and has had her music featured in shows like Netflix's Heartstopper and Apple Original's The Buccaneers' soundtrack.
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