In Rolling Stone‘s latest installment of Song Shuffle, Maya Hawke took a leap of faith of faith. Speaking to Rolling Stone at SXSW, she didn’t share just her playlist, but her entire iTunes library, noting, “I’ve had it for a very long time.”
First up, was Sean Kingston’s “Fire Burning,” which prompted Hawke to ask, “Was there a bigger, better hit than ‘Beautiful Girls’?” She declared, “It was one of my favorite, earliest songs to grind to at eighth grade dances with my braces. And it was awesome. It was a beautiful time.”
Also on her library shuffle was Raffaella’s “Nasa’s Fake,” a friend of Hawke’s who described her fellow singer-songwriter as having a “voice that could shatter glass, in a good way,” and Father John Misty’s “I Went to the Store One Day,” which Hawke said inspired her excellent, recently released fourth album, Maitreya Corso.
The shuffle lineup also included Breezeblocks by alt-J (“Ive gotten really lucky,” quipped Hawke) and “Seaside” by the Kooks.
When asked what song she recommended viewers put on their playlist, Hawke answered, “Well, everyone on my team and at my record label would probably kill me if I didn’t say my own song, which is out now called ‘Devil You Know,’ off of my new album.”
Hawke also detailed returning to the road after three years, and said, “tour really scares me. I get really, really nervous.” She continued, “I find that the older I get, the worse my stage fright gets. When I was younger, I didn’t have stage fright. I just had to pee a lot before I went on stage.”
Still, Hawke hopes to “build a touring experience for myself that will hopefully give me the longevity and strength to want to and be able to do it more.” The singer added, “I’m bringing in a sense of intimacy, and I’m really trying to build a show that is the show I would want to go to, not the show I think other people want to be at. So we’ll see if that works or not.”
