Brooklyn-based pop singer-songwriter Maddie Regent wrestles with that uncomfortable contradiction of knowing you should be happy but not being able to settle into it in her new single "Sleeptalking," translating the complicated emotions of self-sabotage into a song that feels both intimate and expansive.
Regent wrote and recorded "Sleeptalking" in her home studio in Brooklyn with producer Cade Hoppe, making the song feel personal. Eighty Ninety's Harper James added more production work, adding texture to the carefully constructed sound and helping the track balance organic instrumentation with sparkling synth-pop textures.
The song is about wanting to be happy about something that should make you happy, and wanting to find reasons not to be. Regent doesn't gloss over the messiness of self-sabotage, she builds a musical world around it. The result is a sleek yet vulnerable pop song that captures the uneasy space between what we think we should feel and what we actually feel.
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