She tells Weekend Edition that she appreciated being able to submit a video so that she could express herself. Rose says it was cathartic to perform "Mad Black Woman," which "tells the story of how many times people will perceive us to be smaller than we are - when in reality, we are all dynamic, complicated and quite extraordinary." "I think that was the moment I told myself 'this is cool - this is something I want to do,'" she says. Being angry all the time as a kid really got me in a lot of places I didn't want to be."īut then, at age 13, she won a music competition and had the opportunity to sing the National Anthem at a local university - and music helped her find her power. "There was a time when I was a very, very angry person," she says. Tiny Desk Contest Watch Kina Zore's literal jam session for the Tiny Desk Contest Emma sings: "Is there a knowledge that is found not in knowing?" as she's met with the warm hums of the band. And in "Wonder Eye," the two even find peace in not having all the answers. She says Mormonism didn't align with how she wants to treat people 'without conditions.'Įmma Hardyman also shares that she had many self-doubts about herself as an artist when she and Nathan Hardyman met - but that he believed in her from their very first date. it couldn't follow me to how much I wanted to take seriously," she adds, noting that many of the Little Moon band members are queer.
"It introduced me to teachings that are supposed to love everybody, that are supposed to incorporate everybody. "I really love where Mormonism brought me," Emma Hardyman says.
"I've grieved past versions of myself throughout my whole life," Emma Hardyman shares. The couple were also observing the disintegration of many of the building blocks their Mormon belief systems were built on.
"And pretty quickly, just because of the circumstances, I realized that this song, this melody, was about death," says Emma Hardyman, who wrote the structure of the song before asking Nathan Hardyman to write the lyrics.
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