Mia June’s new single “Rewire Me” is a striking meditation on the duality of love and dislocation. The Melbourne, Australia-based artist, known for her unflinchingly honest songwriting, penned the track during a month-long stay at her partner’s family home. “Rewire Me” was born out of a sense of displacement, a desperate attempt to articulate the confusion of being so deeply in love and so utterly out of place at the same time.
Sitting in the dim light of a basement, Mia sketched out the first draft of the song, describing the strange unease she felt—torn between a desire to change and a creeping fear of being left behind. “I dreamt that I asked my partner to ‘rewire me,’” she recalls, “like I needed to update something within myself to keep up.” That dream and its questions linger over the song like a specter, with lyrics that poignantly express the desire for transformation without losing one’s core self.
Mia’s songwriting here is at once direct and elusive, revealing a fascination with her partner’s past relationships, but with a focus that goes beyond mere jealousy. There is an intense curiosity, a desire to understand what these earlier connections taught him, and how they continue to echo through the present. The line, “there is no betrayal of the present in acts of past,” serves as a delicate reassurance—a gentle acknowledgment that the past can coexist with a hopeful future.
Produced by Ezekiel Padmanabham in the familiar comfort of his home studio, “Rewire Me” is a product of spontaneity and reflection. The track features an ethereal violin line played by Mia’s friend Maia Harcourt, an addition that was improvised just a day before recording. It’s a song that Mia initially set aside, only to revisit it months later with new eyes, finding a raw honesty that she hadn’t recognized at first. This moment of rediscovery is emblematic of her process—one that embraces uncertainty and finds beauty in the unfinished.
With “Rewire Me,” Mia June continues to carve out a space for herself within the indie folk landscape, following the release of her 2023 debut EP, Don’t Forget Your Bags. The track is a testament to her evolving artistry—one that captures the messy, in-between moments of love, longing, and the unsteady search for belonging. It’s a deeply human song, intimate and expansive all at once, and a reminder that sometimes, it’s in the act of revisiting our own vulnerabilities that we find the truth we’ve been searching for all along.