Honey
by John Legend (featuring Muni Long)

Album: Legend (2022)
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, John Legend teams with Muni Long to croon about their respective lovers' seductive allure. Over slow guitar strums, the two singers use honey metaphors to describe how addictively sweet their romantic interests are.
  • Legend and Long co-wrote the sticky bedroom jam along with Melanie Joy Fontana, HARV, Gregory Heinn, and its producers Ryan Tedder, Steven Franks, Lindgren and Tommy Brown.
  • The Christian Breslauer-directed video picks up in the aftermath of the retro house party featured in the visual for "Dope." We see Legend passed out on the now-messy living room floor dreaming about the previous night's dance party. Woken from his slumber by a bee sting, Legend finds a wall covered in honeycomb wallpaper. He peels the wallpaper back and discovers Muni in a bathtub full of honey.

Comments: 1

  • Bunny from Detroit, MiThis is a beautiful song! The lyrics are tastefully sweet and classy. The video sets it off perfectly!
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