Georgia Flood Blue Honey

Floating with ethereal sensuality and lush electronic pop, the brand new single Blue Honey out today from Australian singer-songwriter and actress Georgia Flood silkily captures the gamut of anxiety with glassy and polished affability.

 

Following on from Georgia Flood's country-dipped debut single Cowboy earlier this year, Blue Honey seamlessly embodies its cool and oozing namesake while also mingling Flood's formative musical loves and eclectic inspirations, as she explains, "There isn't a clear influence for Blue Honey, even when I sent a reference playlist to my producer Matt Curtin, it was a very diverse list, artists including, Alannah Myles, Fred Again, Róisín Murphy, and Lucinda Williams. This was the challenge of Blue Honey, I couldn't really find anything that would describe what I wanted to create. My loves are electronic music, pop and country, and with this track we tried to make a blend."

 

Teaming up with producer Matt Curtin, who also took on mixing and mastering duties for Blue Honey, Flood welds her crystalline vocals across palpitating, humid beats, ambient instrumentation and hauntingly sensual melodics. But beneath the after-dark pop sensibilities, Blue Honey also powerfully displays the realities of anxiety beyond the stereotypical traits, with Georgia Flood's own creative identity firmly at the wheel. "Blue Honey is about the experience of anxiety," reveals Georgia Flood of her latest sonic outing. "As an artist, I would have to say I have a caring, messy, 17-tabs-open-at-once-mindset, and loud…but also sometimes really quiet". And it's these multi-faceted attributes that effortlessly bolster Blue Honey alongside its sleek production and Georgia Flood's sharp lyricism, declaring: "She keeps the lights on at night / So they won't try / Take a look / Or go inside / Her colourful mind."

Starting her musical journey at a young age, taking up the piano, violin and singing as a child, Georgia Flood was raised by her parents on a musical diet of classical music, K.D. Lang, Van Morrison and Shania Twain. Carrying her early passion into her teens, Georgia Flood soon delved into electronic music, before picking up the guitar at the age of 14 and discovering the music software Reason via her high school music teacher; and the rest, as they say, was history. Also an established and accomplished actress, making her onstage debut with the Melbourne Theatre Company before going on to appear on House Husbands, Wentworth and American Princess, Georgia Flood will next be seen on screens worldwide in the Disney+ TV series Nautilus, due out in December this year.

 

Previously garnering praise for her polished and modern take on the country pop realms, Georgia Flood's musical journey continues to unfold in compelling and stylistically expanded fashion, and Blue Honey is another beautiful piece of the Georgia Flood creative puzzle unfurling in 2023. And, as Georgia Flood concludes, her relatable-yet-glossy creations bring tangible art to life; a fact inspired by the late great Carrie Fisher herself: "There's this amazing line from a film written by Carrie Fisher called, Post Cards from the Edge, where Meryl Streep says to Gene Hackman "I don't want life to imitate art, I want life to be art.". I've always loved that quote. That pretty much sums up what I'm about." 

 

Blue Honey is out

Interview with Georgia Flood

How would you describe your music?

Moody, upbeat, full of emotion.

Can you tell us about Blue Honey?

Blue Honey is about my experience with anxiety. It's hard to articulate or intellectualise…it's not logical. I guess, Blue Honey is the sadness and the sweetness. There is a sweetness in the aftermath of feeling anxious - or rather, a reprieve, a relief….then a wisdom. There are highs and lows. Production wise - I've never spent more time on a song before. (Sorry to my producer Matt Curtin!!- I am a perfectionist). There's never been so many drafts and redrafts. I wanted the sound to be upbeat and fun- so we made it electro-pop-dancy to counteract the heavy subject matter. But also I don't know if I was conscious of that at the time! The process is a mystery.

Is there a particular message you hope listeners take from your music?

That's hard for me to say…I haven't really thought about it. I hope listeners are moved…to dance…to sing along…to feel better about themselves? At least that's what I get from the music I like to listen to.

What motivates you most when writing music?

I feel motivated by feeling connected to myself, and to whatever else is going on…flow state vibes….I'm definitely motivated by this feeling. The sensation of being completely calm and focused yet energetic and passionate - makes me feel connected to something beyond me. And then I'm immediately excited to share it with someone else who might feel the same way I just did from the sounds or words created. I feel the world is so full of internet chaos and pain that being able to sit at the piano with myself and connect to something deep and beyond myself, gives me immense relief. And I'm eternally grateful to have this safe space I know I can always rely on. I'm so motivated to share this feeling with listeners and hope it translates.


If you could collaborate with another artist, who would it be?

At this point in time, Fred Again or Roisin Muphy…or William Orbit….shiiit so many!! Fred because his music moves me in a way that an electronic artist hasn't before. I remember back in 2021 Dena Amy played - Maera (We've Lost Dancing) by Fred at a festival, and I stopped in my tracks and stood still and was like WUT is this track? And Dena (who is of my best friends) was actually looking at me in the eye from her decks way up on stage, with a wry smile, just nodding like, "you're welcome". I also remembering hearing Fred's 'Heavy' for the first time in the car and had to pull over to listen to it and cry. I mean, that's when you know you love an artist. So yeah, I want to collab with him asap.


Did you have any preconceived ideas about the music industry?

That perhaps there's no room for me, that it's too late for me, That I have to have tik tok, that it's too hard to make money and that it's next to impossible to get heard or ever be 'good enough'. Buuuut - that it's also totally worth the effort to at least try knock on the door - because it was always about you and the piano in the basement being wired finding total bliss, even without anyone else listening.

Acting or singing?  Why?

Both. Acting is wonderful in that you get to step into another's shoes and honor their story. Singing (my own music) is equally as rewarding because I get to express my story. Either way, you're still expressing and connecting and sharing and that's an awesome experience.

What is the biggest challenge you have faced along the way to your musical success?

Finding my voice. For a long time I wasn't confident in myself, in what I had to say. I didn't really feel like what I had to sing would matter or be worth much. I just didn't give myself enough credit. It was a struggle for a long time, too, to actually have good singing technique - I finally believed in myself enough to go to a singing class for actors and discovered signing coach and singer songwriter herself Daniella De Andrea and she helped me sing from my heart - as well as teaching me amazing techniques that unlocked so much color and potential on what I could do with my voice and what it meant for me as a performer. The way I'm singing on my two singles is laid back and almost spoken, but I can also sing musical theatre and jazz styles and ballad belts and I'm excited to show that to the world.


What's a typical day like?

I don't really have a typical life, every day is different. Sometimes I'm up at 4:20AM to work out before heading to the set to film a TV show. Other times I'm up at midday after spending hours the night prior, on the piano/laptop fixating on a pre-chorus idea for a new song. Right now, I'm in the English countryside visiting friends. We might go visit a spiritual rock formation later…I hope to get some songwriting done today at some point.

What advice do you have for aspiring songwriters or artists?

Have a go at a thing called a 'Brain Dump'. List all the things that are on your mind, and just keep going, write two pages worth. You'll get a really great insight into your heart. You can find a lot of things you might want to write about there. Suddenly you're an accidental poet.
Another great thing - read your song out loud as a poem, with no music. See if the words stand tall on their own. If you're into lyrics and words that is…otherwise just focus on the music! I don't know though! It works for me.

Can you share your socials?
IG: @georgiaannflood