{"id":2447644,"date":"2019-08-16T09:56:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=871560"},"modified":"2019-08-16T09:56:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:56:23","slug":"watch-muna-avoid-the-past-in-new-video-for-stayaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-muna-avoid-the-past-in-new-video-for-stayaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Muna Avoid the Past in New Video for \u2018Stayaway\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/muna.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/muna\/\" id=\"auto-tag_muna\" data-tag=\"muna\">Muna<\/a> evade a run-in with an old lover in the glittery new video for \u201cStayaway.\u201d The track is the third single off the group\u2019s upcoming sophomore album <em>Saves the World<\/em>, out September 6th via RCA.<\/p>\n<p>The video features vocalist Katie Gavin exiting a shower and wiping steam from her bathroom mirror to stare at her reflection. \u201cLeaving you was easy, now I gotta do what\u2019s hard,\u201d she announces over a pulsating dance beat. \u201cI gotta stay away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gavin and her bandmates \u2014&nbsp;guitarist Josette Maskin and keyboardist Naomi McPherson \u2014 perform in a bar and encounter a former lover, only to reverse their steps and return home.&nbsp;\u201cI don\u2019t do most things I used to do,\u201d Gavin sings,&nbsp;\u201c\u2018Cause every moment is a fork in the road and all my roads lead back to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Stayaway\u2019 is a song about trying to rid yourself of a negative pattern and realizing that it requires you to make a whole network of other changes, like pulling at a small weed to reveal a dense and mighty root system,\u201d the trio said in a statement. \u201cIf we try to just rip the pattern out on its own, maybe it will stay gone for a little while, but soon enough it will grow back because it\u2019s supported by all the other things we do and how we do them \u2014 by our way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaying away for good requires a careful dismantling and reconstruction of the whole root system, down to the way we think,\u201d the band continues. \u201cFor us, today, this song is a reminder of how hard it once was. We listen to it and feel free, proud, and grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On September 16th, Muna will kick off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/muna-fall-headline-tour-849618\/\">fall headlining tour<\/a> at Portland\u2019s Wonder Ballroom. They\u2019ll play back-to-back nights at Los Angeles\u2019 Lodge Room on September 25th and 26th, followed by a pair of performances at Brooklyn\u2019s Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 10th and 11th. The trek wraps up on October 18th at the Fine Line in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/muna-new-song-stayaway-871560\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muna evade a run-in with an old lover in the glittery new video for \u201cStayaway.\u201d The track is the third single off the group\u2019s upcoming sophomore album Saves the World, out September 6th via RCA. The video features vocalist Katie Gavin exiting a shower and wiping steam from her bathroom mirror to stare at her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 09:52:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}