The pop artist Muunie (whose name is pronounced like -mony in the word “harmony”) has released the first single “Fire” from her forthcoming debut EP Ele.mental. The music of Muunie and her upcoming Ele.mental EP is partly inspired by her work as a professional life coach, wanting to use her passion for music and storytelling to help people with the kinds of mental health struggles and cycles of self doubt that she herself went through with as someone who spent much of her life struggling with suicidal depression. Each track on the Ele.mental EP is named after one of the four elements: “Fire”, “Water”, “Earth”, and “Air”. The EP will be released in full on May 27th, 2022.
“Fire”, the first track on the Ele.mental EP, is a passionate pop ballad about losing oneself in a romantic relationship, and is accompanied by an appropriately sensual and intimate music video that features Muunie lost in the kind of passionate physical embrace of another that the song is about, intercut with footage of Muunie climbing out of a cave in a desert. The music video for “Fire” was created in conjunction with director Scott Fleishman of Aplusfilmz.
Describing the thematic inspiration behind this particular chapter of Ele.mental, Munniewrites, “Fire describes the self-destructive force that another person can be in our lives. That feeling of craving that comes from chemical dependence and makes us drop our internal compass in pursuit of it again and again. Like a moth to a flame, we keep coming back in spite of our better judgement. We all have that self-destructive part of ourselves that wants to be consumed by something completely, even if it kills us.
In my life, I’ve pursued romantic relationships with this level of intensity and disregard for my own needs and it wasn’t until they ended that I realized I had lost myself in the process and become fixated on merging with another, thinking that that would save me somehow. The repeating line that captures it is “nothing matters.” We get tunnel vision and behave as if this other thing is the only thing we need. And for me, that’s led to me abandoning myself and, whether I was aware of it or not, reinforced the idea that I didn’t matter.”
