{"id":292146,"date":"2026-02-11T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/292146\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:36:13","slug":"muna-on-darkness-desire-and-dancing-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/292146\/","title":{"rendered":"Muna on Darkness, Desire, and \u2018Dancing on the Wall\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The members of the band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/muna-goes-full-throttle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muna<\/a> are locked in a heated debate over Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m kind of the naked one in the band,\u201d Katie Gavin says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m maybe the most clothed,\u201d adds Naomi McPherson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot really,\u201d Josette Maskin counters. \u201cNot in the video.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, yeah, I forgot about that,\u201d McPherson concurs. \u201cOops. Well, now I\u2019m the naked one. Fuck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, the emotive dark-pop Los Angeles band returns after nearly four years to announce their forthcoming album, Dancing on the Wall\u2014and with that, the release of the titular lead single. Since Muna released their self-titled album, the trio has undergone an evolution of sound, style, and spirit\u2014one that\u2019s brought them closer to home and much deeper into themselves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Muna Dancing On The Wall.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_9582.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Skellyot<\/p>\n<p>The song, they say, is a bridge between the euphoric pop sounds of their 2017 debut About U and Muna (2022) and the introspective, punkier tones they established on 2019\u2019s Saves the World. Dancing on the Wall, according to the band, is a return to form. \u201cIt feels really close to the values and visual world of our first album, except that we are returning to that with both more self-knowledge and a higher skill set,\u201d Gavin says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also about knowing who we are,\u201d Maskin adds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Muna Dancing On The Wall.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_9633.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Skellyot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The members of the band Muna are locked in a heated debate over Zoom. \u201cI\u2019m kind of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7369,93,61,60,278,17235,1426,514],"class_list":{"0":"post-292146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-celebrity-style","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-storytypeinterview","14":"tag-textabovecenterfullbleed","15":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}