Zoe Moon
shares upbeat R&B single "In Person"
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Zoe Moon is better off "In Person".
With her new liberating and playful single, this budding Artist/Producer/Powerhouse brings to us a fantastic fusion of Hip Hop, Pop, and R&B, positively stacked with her trademark Vocal Kung Fu. Inspired by 90’s Hip Hop & video game nostalgia, Zoe lets her guard down in an all-too-relatable song depicting her struggle "translating" her true self in this digital age.
Zoe says, "The heart of this track is the voice, the drums and the bass. I was curious just how high or low I could go, testing the scope of my range in the mammoth stacks of harmonies and vocal Kung Fu. I had fun channeling my Barbershop Choir kid days. It’s funny 'coz I played "In Person" live with my beautiful band a healthy amount before I got the opportunity to record it, so it’s grown so much!
"In Person" is an expression of self love, a celebration of identity conveying the craving for up-close and personal human connection - a feeling all too familiar in recent years. Zoe says, "My Blackness, my cultural identity, my personality, is better understood ‘up close and personal’ rather than through a lens often tinted with the reductive tropes of tokenisms and schisms of mainstream TV. So in this song and video I let go of all of that, I peel back the layers and let myself be me, unapologetically. I’m really excited and proud to share my true joy!"
"In Person" is just the uplifting anthem we need to unleash our true joy this summer.
"In Person" is Zoe Moon's first release since 2020, the first single of several that herald the upcoming album With Love, Miss Moon, dropping in 2023.
Zoe has always known she wanted to shoot a music video at Clifton Carpark in Wellington, and "In Person" was the perfect video for the location. She noted the echoes of the cars on the motorway above, the cable car, those striking pillars when she lived nearby for 2 years whilst working towards rebuilding her music career in Aotearoa and writing for her upcoming releases.
The video is a love letter to the 90’s Hip Hop and video game nostalgia that plays a huge role in the artist and person Zoe is today. Zoe also lived in Aro valley "when I was young wanna be a B-girl, so we shot some of the video there to infuse that 90’s Hip Hop flare. I actually hunted high and low for whoever did the graffiti but couldn’t find them. I wanted a world of colour and that intercity concrete jungle goodness."
Co-directed, co-produced and edited by DOP Paascalino Schaller of Little Universe Productions, whom Zoe has worked with on ‘Sister’ with Deva Mahal. Dana Leeming was the AD and producer for the video. And about the wardrobe, Zoe says "Styling and crafting the outfits with my partner in fashion, Beth Tibbo, was like a hybrid mind dream! Especially since we both seem to own an unnatural amount of denim."