Maya Hawke has revealed Taylor Swift has always inspired her vulnerable approach to songwriting.
Maya Hawke says Taylor Swift has “hugely influenced” her music.
The Stranger Things star and folk singer, 27, will release Maitreya Corso – the follow-up to 2024’s Chaos Angel – on May 1, and in a recent interview, she reflected on how much influence the Fate of Ophelia star has had on herself and countless others.
She told Rolling Stone: “I think she inspired a generation. She made a generation of young people listen to music and think, ‘Oh, wow, my life could matter. My feelings could matter. The details of it could matter.’ And of course it’s a Blakean thing, the minute particulars — the more specific you make something, the more relatable it actually is. But I was hugely influenced by her. I’ve been listening to her music my entire life. You could start any song from any word and I would be able to know where you were and finish it, probably.”
Maya also revealed the track Lioness from her forthcoming LP Maitreya Corso is about her Stranger Things co-star Sadie Sink, 23, and a day on the set of the hit sci-fi series where she inspired her.
She said: “I was actually talking about working on Stranger Things.
“There was a day where I was really grumpy and not feeling inspired. And I came into set as a background player in a scene she was in, and I remembered how magical acting is. I just watched her pick a spirit out of the universe and make the whole room quiet and speak truth and turn something from a game of playing pretend into something extremely authentic. It was a kick in my butt — bring it every time, every second. Don’t get lazy for one second. When I was at drama school, I used to complain — 80 per cent of the day is magic, but 20 per cent is total bull honky. And then I started working, and I was like, ‘Oh, whoa, 80-20 is a high percentage of magic.’ And that was a moment where I was like, ‘You are shrinking the ratio. You are losing touch with the magic. It’s not the art that’s depressed. You are.’ I think she’s the greatest actress of our generation.”
Maya and Sadie played Robin Buckley and Max Mayfield, respectively, on Stranger Things.
