{"id":689762,"date":"2025-09-12T23:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/moliy-talks-shake-it-to-the-max-fly-honey-doom-and-new-music\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:20:26","slug":"moliy-talks-shake-it-to-the-max-fly-honey-doom-and-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/moliy-talks-shake-it-to-the-max-fly-honey-doom-and-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"MOLIY talks \u201cShake It To The Max (Fly),\u201d Honey Doom, and new music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<style>\n<p> article.custom .custom-title, article.custom .custom-media .caption {\n   color: ;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-attribution, article.custom .custom-attribution a {\n   color: ;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-274062\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      MOLIY is ten toes down for Afropop stardom\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      After \u201cShake It To The Max (Fly),\u201d the Ghanian-American pop artist is feeling more intentional than ever.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Vivian Medithi<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\"triple_gutter_left triple_gutter_right image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Copy_of_IMG_5130_dw8wmi\/moliy-shake-it-to-the-max-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Copy_of_IMG_5130_dw8wmi\/moliy-shake-it-to-the-max-interview.jpg 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The Ghanaian-American\u2019s track is a hypnotic spiral of Afropop-meets-dancehall that\u2019s catapulted MOLIY (pronounced like \u201cMolly\u201d) to the top of Afrobeats charts in the US and UK thanks to a TikTok dance challenge and a viral remix featuring Skillibeng and Shenseea. Fast forward to summer 2025 and it felt like you couldn\u2019t escape MOLIY, whether walking around Crown Heights, flipping through Top 40 radio stations, or just scrolling through <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Speaking to me on the phone ahead of the VMAs, the Ghanaian-American singer is bubbly and beaming as she recalls her career beginnings. \u201cI had this delusion: \u2018If I want, I could totally be like a superstar with no training, [and] a casual amount of songwriting skills.\u2019\u201d It wasn\u2019t a delusion then, and it certainly isn\u2019t one now.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-274063\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MOLIY, Shenseea, Skillibeng, Silent Addy - Shake It To The Max (Fly) (Remix) (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UjBhbMMgLzc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('274063');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-274057\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            MOLIY grew up in Accra, Ghana, the youngest of three siblings (Her older sister Mellissa also makes music). The trio didn\u2019t know how to play music, but they would use the family keyboard to do \u201cfake Taylor Swift covers. \u201cI would just play a beat off my computer and sing to my phone,\u201d she says of her first musical creations. \u201cI had no clue at that time, or access to studios. It was moreso just playing around with it.\u201d She eventually met her go-to producer Mike Millz, and in 2018 released her first song \u201cJonny\u201d on SoundCloud.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            When I ask about the music she listened to growing up, MOLIY says her mom was mostly playing, \u201cold school music [&#8230;] Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Daddy Lumba, Dolly Parton.\u201d Some of that songwriting influence comes through more clearly on deep cuts that address more serious romantic dynamics, though right now MOLIY tells me she\u2019s focused on music that \u201cmakes [me] have a good time.\u201d She recently signed a publishing deal with Warner Ch<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ell UK and tells me she\u2019s been working on a bigger body of work.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            \u201cNow that I&#8217;m at a place where I do have my own sound figured out, it&#8217;ll be great to get insights from people who&#8217;ve been in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>,\u201d she says of the deal and her recent recording sessions with new producers. \u201cLearn from their experiences and see how they might be able to tailor the sound that I am making.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            The FADER caught up with MOLIY on a video call in early September to talk about high school talent shows, \u201cSAD GIRLZ LUV MONEY\u201d with Amaarae and Kali Uchis, developing the sound of her 2022 EP <i>Honey Doom<\/i>, and the success of \u201cShake It To the Max.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-274066\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<hr><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-274059\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>The FADER: Who are some artists who have inspired you?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Definitely Rihanna. My favorite song would be \u201cPour It Up,\u201d because I just remember this moment where I tried to perform it [at a school talent show] and it was just awful because I had stage fright. The way the song is set up, she starts singing as soon as the beat drops. I tried to catch it like three times. I was so embarrassed and I just cried and went off stage. I&#8217;m never gonna forget that moment, even though it just makes me happy to speak about it now, cause I see how far I&#8217;ve come [with] being afraid to show myself to people.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <br \/><b>You\u2019ve been making music for several years and you\u2019ve gone through a few different evolutions in terms of your sound or approach. What has stayed the same and what do you feel like has shifted?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Most of my early music was very much, \u201cI heard this beat, so I wanna do a beat that&#8217;s very similar to this,\u201d almost a recreation, cause I was building my own sound. Now I&#8217;m way more decisive on what genre I want to make or how I want it to feel. I have way more vision now, and my own vision for myself versus just creating without that much intention. \n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-274064\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Moliy - Freak (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/31vE_zgiv9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('274064');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-274060\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>I wanted to talk about your 2022 project <i>Honey Doom<\/i> and where your head was at with the themes and sound of that record.<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            I feel like my headspace was very much trying to release, cause music can be very therapeutic. So a lot of it was me presenting those different experiences. Like this one record, \u201cFreak,\u201d has a lot of undertones of mental [and] physical abuse, and wanting to leave this toxic space. It was just very interesting to put those real life, what could be a traumatic experience into music and then it becomes a freaking release. And then hopefully, people who can relate hear it and they can feel that release as well.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Another song, \u201cHuman,\u201d with my sister Mellissa, that one also feels super powerful, super inspiring; just trying to be motivated, when things are going against you. Then I have other songs that are more similar to what I do now, so it was a process really. \u201cBody On Fire,\u201d \u201cHard\u201d with Moonchild Sanelly, that\u2019s more of the baddie music. That confident, go-get-it, sexy gal, she was still in there.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>Tell me a little bit about your collaborations from 2024, cause you took a bit of a break from dropping your own music and you were really focused on doing features for other people. <\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            I was based in Orlando at the time and just trying to figure stuff out. I had put out that EP and put so much intention into it and I was just looking at the progress, what it was doing for me, and I really felt like when I do something next, I want it to have way more impact. My manager was like, \u201cWe can really make a plan, we can find the right distributor, but you gotta stay active.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            She actually wanted me to do way more features than I did. But for me, the selection process is definitely like, I need to like your music. I need to feel like this is something I can connect with or I can flow with, and luckily I managed to connect with a lot of artists that I think are really cool. 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class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>One feature I wanted ask about was on Amaarae\u2019s 2020 song \u201cSAD GIRLZ LUV MONEY.\u201d I was curious about your experience going viral, and what you apple from that experience to your own career.<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            That was actually the first time I experienced a viral moment, but you being a feature on a hit song is different than you releasing a hit song. At the time, I don&#8217;t think I knew how to handle a viral moment. With what I know now, I would have not stopped hounding people on my social media like, \u201cI&#8217;m on this song, I&#8217;m on this song, I&#8217;m on this song.\u201d I would have owned it a little bit more, because people sometimes don&#8217;t look at all the names on a song. I would have done more to show myself to people and with things now, the way I handled \u201cShake It To The Max,\u201d I feel like it was impossible to ignore because it was my release and I was putting myself out there consistently.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            <b>I know you&#8217;re working on new music. What can you tell our readers about that project?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            This music, I\u2019m making it for you guys, but I\u2019m also really making it for me. The more I create and the more I perform, I\u2019m seeing the kind of music I enjoy performing: what really makes MOLIY MOLIY. I really want this music to be played in spaces where people have a good time. At a party, at a rave, at a festival, at a concert. I want it all to sound like this music deserves to be in this space, because I know exactly where I want to perform it.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Vivian Medithi<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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