Today, blues poet aja monet shares her first new music since 2023 with the release of her new single “hollyweird” produced by monet, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Justin Brown.

Watch the video below:

Of the single, monet says:

“I wrote ‘hollyweird’ on scraps of found paper, frantically jotting down observations and sentiments of the moment during the Los Angeles fires and its aftermath. The song is an Afropunkesque ode to frustrations and feelings around our current culture of social isolation and performative solidarity. I wanted to speak to the emptiness of ‘hollyweird’ not as a place but as a way of being where insincerity is normalized. Where social interactions become void in of sincerity and we lose sight of community and connection.”

On May 20, monet will be performing at Carnegie Hall.