BENEE Is Back With "Green Honda," an Infectious Pop Joyride
Photo: Tyler Kohloff
Breakout pop artist BENEE is back with yet another high-energy banger with her latest single, "Green Honda." The track captures everything you wish you had said to your ex, with its sharp lyricism and carefree "I don't give a f***, I'm over you" production. Created with an all-female team consisting of Elvira Anderfjard and Luka Kloser, BENEE continues to create deeply relatable music while still effortlessly experimenting with various genre-blending soundscapes.
In "Green Honda," BENEE wastes no time setting the tone with her biting lyrics and dynamic instrumentation. From the start, she declares, "You were a waste of fucking time," before sucker punching with, "I pull up in my green Honda to tell ya that I don't want ya!" as humming bass lines and buzzing guitars laced with electric synths coat the song in a blanket of futuristic nostalgia. "It was such a refreshing experience to be in the studio writing with two other young women," says the New Zealand-born artist. "There is so much that you just don't need to explain when you're working with your true peers. It's intuitive. They just get it, and that's amazing."
"'Green Honda' was quite a light-hearted song at first, and some parts just flowed immediately... I wanted the energy of the song to capture the idea I had of writing a song about knowing where you're at and what you need to say and not being afraid," she BENEE adds. "There is a personal history to the Green Honda story… my green Honda was my first car, passed on to me by my grandmother when she gave up driving. I call him 'Steve,' and he's on the cover of my STELLA & STEVE EP. We've had lots of adventures together."
The accompanying music video, directed by Eliot Charof & AA, is a fast-paced piece of art full of high-octane, green-lit visuals. Viewers follow Benee as she and her friends cause a little mischief and mayhem throughout a bubblegum electro-junkyard world with cars, dogs, wild fashion, and tons of attitude.
"Green Honda," which was featured on New Music Daily on Apple Music, is the first new song from BENEE leading up to a larger body of work due out later this year. Since her acclaimed 2022 Lychee EP, BENEE has hit the ground running, gathering tens of millions of streams across a series of fan-favorite collaborations, including "Uh Oh" with Sub Urban, "Ott" with easy life, "I'm So Happy" with Jeremy Zucker, "fun out of it" with Johnny Orlando, and, most recently, "Lots of Nothing" with Spacey Jane.
Watch the "Green Honda" video below:
