Emotion is color. All of the blues, all of the reds, the purples, the greys. I see color in the music I listen to. Therefore, music is also emotion. All that we listen to provokes some sort of feeling, but sometimes you just gotta look for it. The music I am particularly attracted to is more mellow, acoustic, rainy day music, which is why I believe I reacted so strongly to Honeybee by Seahaven.

Music is a safety net. On the good days and the bad, music will always be available to use as a shoulder to lean on. Thankfully for me, on those rather bad days, I have Honeybee by Seahaven to listen to on repeat until I’m tired of feeling bad for myself. Honeybee is kind of an unpopular melody that could fall under the category of indie/ acoustic. This song can be interpreted in many different ways but personally, I believe that it is about grieving your mistakes and looking back in regret. one line that is said repetitively throughout the song is, “I think you deserve some sort of apology. so here I am, and here I am. I’m sorry.” Not only do these lyrics read in an apologetic tone, but the vocalist controls his voice in a manner that makes the song all the more emotional and heartfelt. This goes to say that it can help encourage releasing your own bottled up feelings on the days that we feel the need to acknowledge whatever grief or pain we may be feeling.

In honeybee, tone and style/voice play a very large roll in order to create the complete ambiance of the song. The instruments used for this melody are simply the guitar and vocals, creating a very relaxed, “rainy day in bed watching Netflix and eating ice cream” feel to it. The song also has hints of static to it, almost like the silence of a vinyl record turning in between song. The vocalist in honeybee also has a very unique voice which is a little bit more choppy, raw, and untrained giving the song even more personality and style.

We are emotion. Raindrops, flowers, trees, cars, us. everything we have contact with will afflict some sort of emotion among us. music is emotion, and honeybee afflicts an emotion so raw and pure that when I first heard Kyle Soto (lead vocalist) sing, “you slipped right through my fingers that grew too tiresome to hold you. I watched you float away, watched as it turned into desperate longing,” I couldn’t help but fall in love with the honesty it portrayed.

So once again I would like to emphasize emotion. Because emotion is apart of so much, Honeybee is honestly a wonderful example of how emotion can affect people in different ways, in particular love & loss as well as grief. If you’re looking for  mellow, acoustic, rainy day song to pour your feeling out to, Honeybee is the perfect track off of Seahaven’s album Winter Forever.