Lemonade

Album: released as a single (2023)
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  • Instead of sugary sweetness, Black Honey offers a bracing shot of gritty honesty in "Lemonade," a grunge-pop anthem that confronts the unsavory truth: some lemons you just can't squeeze into sunshine.

    "There's so much pressure on like, everyone's say, when life gives you lemons make lemonade and I think the song sort of representing it's okay to not," explained drummer Alex Woodward. "If you're not feeling like you want to do something, you don't have to."

    "I do feel a bit like eye rolls about the whole thing," vocalist Izzy Phillips added. "I'm like, how about sometimes it's just really hard life it's just can be really hard. And I'm sort of like an air an arrow. I'm accepting that and leaning into it rather than like, if I look at my life and compare my life to the Internet all the time, I just feel rubbish about it."
  • The four Black Honey band members wrote "Lemonade" with their producer Dimitri Tikovoi and songwriter/producer Olly Burden (Prodigy's "The Day is My Enemy," Girli's "Girl I Met On The Internet," Barns Courtney's "Hellfire"). Dimitri Tikovoi has been Black Honey's producer since their 2021 album, Written and Directed. He's also worked with Nicola Roberts, Placebo and Mikky Ekko.
  • Shot by Black Honey's go-to director Craig Hemming, the visual finds Izzy Phillips playing 14 characters. "The video is a 12-character portrait series about different types of disappointment," she explained. "We named each one and wrote a story for them. I wanted the ones we would consider successful societally to still be failures."

    "14 in total and so they were like, 'Don't worry guys. You don't have to make music videos anymore.' Just make TikTok,'" Phillips added. "So then I'm just somehow now filming a 14 character portrait series, which takes three weeks to film instead of a day."

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