aja monet returns with new single, "hollyweird"

when the poems do what they do served as an introduction to monet's exploration of resistance, love, and joy, and was nominated at the 66th GRAMMY Awards for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album in 2024. "hollyweird", produced by monet, alongside Meshell Ndegeocello and Justin Brown, sees her question sincerity within a culture of socialisation.

Discussing the single, monet shares: "I wrote hollyweird on scraps of found paper, frantically jotting down observations and sentiments of the moment during the Los Angeles fires and its aftermath. The song is an Afropunkesque ode to frustrations and feelings around our current culture of social isolation and performative solidarity. I wanted to speak to the emptiness of hollyweird not as a place but as a way of being where insincerity is normalized. Where social interactions become void in of sincerity and we lose sight of community and connection.”