Maya Hawke Brings ‘Big Idea’ To ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

Singer-songwriter and actress Maya Hawke was the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday. Hawke performed her song “Big Idea” for the late night television appearance.

“Big Idea” appears on Maya Hawke’s new album, Chaos Angel, which arrived on May 31 via Mom + Pop. The record saw three advance singles: “Missing Out,” “Dark” and “Hang in There.”

In a recent interview, Hawke cited James Blake and Adrianne Lenker as inspiration behind Chaos Angel:

“I was listening to a lot of James Blake. And a lot of Adrianne Lenker. And those two different things came at different angles of what I was aspiring to do. Like the production, James Blake is so encapsulating when you put on your headphones and you listen to him; you just feel like drowned. You feel this kind of perceptual relationship to even the distance from you of where certain instruments are and both [are] sometimes extremely sparse, but still feels all consuming. Then with Adrianne Lenker, there’s just this straightforward songwriting where the song would be good in any format, like if you played it like a rock song, the song is good. If you play it like a folk song, the song is good. If you add drums to it, it’s good. If they have no drums, it’s good. The songwriting has so much integrity and mutability. And that’s really what I was going for, I was trying to inspire myself to be more playful with production.”

Hawke’s new sound can be heard on “Big Idea.” Watch her perform the Chaos Angel deep cut on Kimmel below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXZZtyhq1cY&ab