‘Honey’ is a lively, tongue-in-cheek exploration of frustration and self-acceptance. Inspired by Pidgeon’s transformative solo trip to Toronto for NXNE, the song captures the liberating yet challenging emotions of travel and personal discovery. “I was running around this town feeling alive again, meeting new people, and I felt great,” Francesca recalls. “Then, I called home, and one conversation just soured everything for me. It’s about the frustration of people wanting me to be someone I’m not.”

With a chorus that embodies a playful sass — “Aww, Honey!” — Francesca channels her experiences with societal expectations and unwanted advances. “It’s about people wanting me to change, or coming onto me awkwardly, and me just feeling sorry for them instead of angry,” she adds. Originally inspired by the country and folk singers Francesca encountered in Canada, “Honey” began as a stripped-back, guitar-driven tune before evolving into a production that retains her signature experimentation.

Accompanying the single is a new music video, created fromfootage captured on an Insta360 camera mounted to Francesca’s bike handlebars. “The video was the result of me attaching a borrowed Insta360 camera to my bike handlebars every day for a few weeks and capturing every journey I made on it,” she explains. “There’s something super freeing about cycling in a new city, and I felt like maybe I could get that feeling across even in my old city, doing the same route I do every day pretty much. That said, it’s also about the grind of heading into the studio space every day to do the same thing, and the pull of home and familiarity.”

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Of the new single, Francesca says: “I was cycling to the studio space where I wrote this record (in the rain because Manchester) when this double decker bus drove past me and completely soaked me. So I got into the space, totally wet through and I was thinking of all the times I hadn’t been drenched by an errant bus driver and I just thought ‘God, I didn’t know how good I had it back then when I was dry’. So that became the sort of core of the song, it’s all about not appreciating what you’ve got.

“A lot of it came from thinking about the way I saw someone I know being treated by their partner – it just seemed very condescending and like they were being taken for granted – and I was thinking “What are you doing? They’re great just as they are, stop nagging at them to change, you don’t know how good you’ve got it!” but then kind of reflecting that back on myself because I know I’ve treated people that way in the past.”

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