Today, Swiss songwriter Mary Middlefield returns with a brand new single titled “Heart’s Desire”, alongside its striking accompanying live music video. Her newest release is introspective and vulnerable, delicately depicting a Stockholm syndrome-like experience of a manipulative relationship.
The track follows Middlefield’s recent singles “Sexless” and “Atlantis”, which arrived last month as a vulnerable and empowering first look at her first material since the arrival of her debut album, Thank You Alexander, which was released earlier this year. The album was met with great acclaim. Shared by the likes of Clash, Notion, and The Line of Best Fit, and across a wide array of Swiss media such as Schweizer Illustrierte, Sunrise Starzone, and SRF3. Middlefield was named “SRF3 Best Talent” in the month of April, which allowed her to blossom further. In her first summer as an artist in the industry she embarked on her first festival tour, playing renowned festivals such as Montreux Jazz Festival and Winterthurer Musikfestwochen.
On “Heart’s Desire” Mary Middlefield brings her gentle ghostly vocals and emotive cinematic instrumentation to some of the deepest, personal and most painful corners of her autobiographical songwriting. The single comes hand in hand with a live music video that visualizes the raw exposed feel of the song.
Speaking about the single’s themes, Middlefield says: “It’s a song about statutory rape and knowingly falling for someone who’s manipulating you and inappropriately older than you. It’s not a love song and it shouldn’t be seen that way. As young women, we’re often preyed on by people with authority who not only use toxic methods to get the results they’d like, but also project their desires, whether sexual, professional or both. I really wanted to put that in a song, i.e, how it feels to live through the abuse and experience it first hand. I don’t want to give too much of my personal experience away: most of it is already in the song anyway.”
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