Maren Morris and Marcus Mumford are lending their voices to “Look at Us Now (Honeycomb),” one of the popular tracks off the Daisy Jones & the Six soundtrack, Aurora.
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“Look at Us Now” was written by Mumford, Blake Mills, Stephony Smith, Jason Boesel and Jonathan Rice. The song was originally performed as a duet by Riley Keough‘s character Daisy Jones and Sam Clafin’s Billy Dunne in the Amazon Prime Video miniseries.
Morris and Mumford’s version honors the acoustic integrity of the original track, elevating the song’s lyricism and musicianship with a more cinematic approach. With voices as smooth as honey, they harmonize naturally on such lyrics as, How did we get here?/How do we get out?/We used to be somethin’ to see/Oh, baby, look at us now/This thing we’ve been doin’ ain’t working out/Why can’t you just admit it to me?
In a behind-the-scenes video, Mumford describes Keough and Dunne’s version as “face-melting.” “And now I’m going to sing on it, and we’re going to cut a different version,” he explained. “We stripped the song back, right back down to acoustic guitar and vocal, which is how it was written. And now we’re building it back up from there, and have just landed on an arrangement that we like, and Maren Morris is going to come sing on it.”
“It’s going to be great,” Morris said in the studio about her first time singing with Mumford. “I think our tones go together well.”
The two met for the first time the day they recorded the song. “I love being in the room singing with someone live,” she continued. “I really think you get those magical moments when two singers are just in the studio together, facing each other, singing at one another. Every take felt like a new beginning of something.”
Mumford and Mills co-produced Aurora alongside Phoebe Bridgers, Tony Berg, Jackson Browne and Chris Weisman. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Soundtracks chart, as well as No. 7 on the Top Rock Albums chart.
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