“I do not suppose it is caught as much as me but — how a lot my life has modified,” says Emma Hardyman, singer of the 2023 Tiny Desk Contest-winning band Little Moon. The Utah-based band not too long ago wrapped up the Tiny Desk Contest On The Street tour, headlining eight sold-out reveals throughout the nation. Whereas on the street, Hardyman caught up with NPR to mirror on the life-changing win and in addition share the story behind Little Moon’s successful track, “Marvel Eye.”
Hardyman tells NPR the track was written through the time her mother-in-law was in hospice care. The melody got here to Hardyman as she and her husband Nathan Hardyman, who can also be a part of Little Moon, drove from Utah to Idaho to go to his mom.
Throughout this tough time, Emma and Nathan Hardyman had been additionally within the technique of leaving the Mormon church by which they’d grown up.
“And fairly shortly, simply due to the circumstances, I spotted that this track, this melody, was about demise,” says Emma Hardyman, who wrote the construction of the track earlier than asking Nathan Hardyman to put in writing the lyrics.
The couple had been additionally observing the disintegration of most of the constructing blocks their Mormon perception programs had been constructed on. “I’ve grieved previous variations of myself all through my complete life,” Emma Hardyman shares.
“I actually love the place Mormonism introduced me,” Emma Hardyman says. “It launched me to teachings which are supposed to like all people, which are supposed to include all people. [But] it could not observe me to how a lot I wished to take [those teachings] significantly,” she provides, noting that most of the Little Moon band members are queer. She says Mormonism did not align with how she needs to deal with individuals ‘with out circumstances.’
Emma Hardyman additionally shares that she had many self-doubts about herself as an artist when she and Nathan Hardman met — however that he believed in her from their very first date. And in “Marvel Eye,” the 2 even discover peace in not having all of the solutions. Emma sings: “Is there a information that’s discovered not in figuring out?” as she’s met with the nice and cozy hums of the band.
