Maya Hawke Makes Manic Pixie Dream Girl Music Videos Unsafe for Work

Genie Touvell July 26, 2022 2 min read

Irrespective of the point that I employed to stalk the streets of downtown Manhattan seeking for Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman when I was a teen, I wasn’t aware of their daughter Maya Hawke’s profession right until her transform as Robin in Stranger Points. To be honest, there isn’t much in advance of Stranger Issues. Did any individual else know that she and Kathryn Newton have been in a shorter-lived Small Girls series that has 3 episodes on Amazon Primary?

I was scrolling social media the other working day, as you do, and stumbled across an write-up about Hawke’s most current tunes movie. Songs movie? Most recent? Maya makes tunes? Indeed! Maya Hawke has been generating music due to the fact 2019. Her most current track, “Thérèse,” arrives with a pretty alluring, extremely NSFW video clip. So NSFW that it is age-restricted on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/check out?v=8jKIiVyrUPY

Maya is the final Nepotism Child, so it’s quick to generate off this foray into the new music entire world as a vainness project. But I dig it. I spent a large amount of time in the mid-’90s listening to alternate woman-bands who sounded a good deal like this. Off the bat, it reminds me of Liquorice, which highlighted Jenny Toomey on vocals, and a little bit like Tanya Donnelly of Throwing Muses and Tummy fame. It is not as heroin-chic as Mazzy Star, but Maya’s vocals have a likewise sensitive quality.

Her description of the music sounds precisely like a tune created by Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman’s daughter would:

“Thérèse,” “is about the magic formula spaces we construct wherever we are no cost to be ourselves, in a planet that is usually intentionally or systematically misunderstanding us.”

https://www.youtube.com/enjoy?v=noebQxn46po

It’s all a little bit twee, comfortably fitting into the specialized niche of other female famous people who’ve tried to have audio professions, like ScarJo and Zooey Deschanel. But it is not disagreeable. I could invest a excellent hour in a coffee store, sipping a latte from a comically oversized coffee mug, casually chatting with close friends or breezing by way of an art magazine, though listening to this music. Never thoughts that I hardly ever essentially did any of all those things in the ’90s. That is, for guaranteed, the vibe her audio is throwing.

And here’s Ethan on The Check out getting a supportive Woman Father, talking about the tune, the movie, and how happy he is of Maya.