4. Missing Out
Last year, I loved Sweet Tooth by Maya Hawke, so I was looking forward to her new album this year. This one was my favorite.
Hawke elaborates, “It was the moment where I felt older than everyone because I laughed so hard. I was like, ‘You are so far down the wrong track!’ Wish to write a novel. That would be a miracle. Don’t wish to write the next great American novel, that’s a nightmare! It made me feel I actually am a different place in my life than these people I was around. It totally inspired this whole song.”
“Missing Out” introduces us to a new spin on Hawke’s traditional folk-rock sound, threading a soft-pop beat through hazy acoustic guitars. The instrumentals reflect the chorus, swirling into a frenzy as she realizes, “I’m missing out, missing out, missing out.”