Maya Hawke explains why she hates releasing new music

However, in a new interview with People, Hawke surprisingly confessed a rather negative opinion towards her own music, saying she finds it “yucky” and “painful” to release, and subsequently hates doing it. 

“It’s always weird. If I’m being honest, I hate putting out music,” she said, before adding, “There is this pointing at the self, where it feels so great to write all these personal songs, and to record them and make them with your friends, but then you have to promote it, and it feels like promoting your diary.”

To this end, the singer said, “There’s something that feels very yucky to me about it, and it’s painful and hard,” despite being “thrilled” that people are now enjoying Maitreya Corso. 

Hawke’s unconventional stance on releasing music was then even further confounded when she added that it was a “relief” for the album to be out because, “I like to see it more as a funeral for the record than as a release of it, because it was yours, it was this living thing that was movable and changeable, and now it’s this frozen dead thing out in the world that people get to talk about.” 

In a three-and-a-half-star review of Maitreya Corso, Far Out observed, “The album’s greatest strength is absolutely its lyrical poetry, making up for spaces where the sonics don’t totally break new ground.”

If she does not intend to head back to the recording studio in any great hurry, Hawke’s acting career is set to keep her busy in the meantime with Wishful Thinking, One Night Only, and The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping all being released later this year. 

In the latter, she is set to be joined by an all-star cast including the likes of Glenn Close, Ralph Fiennes, Jesse Plemons, Elle Fanning, and Kieran Culkin, with the film set to hit cinemas on November 20th.

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