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Premiere: Blue Monkey Shares New Single “Golden Rule”

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Jan 24, 2025 Photography by Hollon Beasley

Blue Monkey is the latest project from indie singer/songwriter Charlee Remitz. The moniker is taken from the Mayan Zodiac, and symbolizes the birth of creativity for humanity. Pulling from folk, indie, and singer/songwriter fare, Remitz debuted the moniker last year with a trio of new singles, “Pylons,” “Pretty Things,” and “Common Enemies,” and today she is back with another new single, “Golden Rule,” premiering early with Under the Radar.

“Golden Rule” sees Blue Monkey leaning into gentle, soft-focus folk pop, accompanying her lilting vocals with plaintive acoustic tones and feather-light harmonies.The track pulls its name and themes from a quote from Victorian poet William Morris: “If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” Fittingly, Blue Monkey keeps to this principle in the track itself, bringing out a sparse arrangement laced together by beautiful subtleties like echoing guitar accents and ethereal synth tones. Lyrically, the track explores the ethos of less is more, celebrating the act of moving with intention: “Something starry and golden-hued / A greater feeling / Than driving through the city while the world turns blue / That’s how I’m gonna love / Somebody new.”

Blue Monkey says of the track, “‘Golden Rule’ has a lot of presence to it. Touching on the sweet camaraderie of swaying with strangers during the seventh-inning stretch at a baseball game or leaving the arctic tundra of a movie theater to a warm summer night, to the floodlights of a mall parking lot and a late evening sunset—these are moments where our aliveness is fully expressed and accessible. We tend to have our most unconscious moments in relationships because we feel compelled to think for two people. In immortalizing these scenes, my hope was to remind listeners of what presence feels like, and how important it is to cultivate presence within yourself before you can find presence with another.”

Check out the song below and pre-save the track here, out everywhere next week on January 31st.



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