Maurice Fonson Gets a Little Sweeter
The first taste of Fun finds Maurice Fonson trading heartbreak for infatuation, lightness and the pleasure of simply enjoying the moment.
Maurice Fonson has spent enough time being sad and is now ready to open the Fun chapter.
This became clear during our recent conversation about Fun, his forthcoming project that marks a lighter chapter for the songwriter and artist whose credits include Madonna, Jennifer Hudson, Leona Lewis and Sebastián Yatra.
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Studying at Xavier University of Louisiana, at nineteen, Maurice Fonson was in New Orleans, attending classes and doing all the things a student is supposed to do while trying to imagine what adulthood might eventually look like.
Now, with “Sweet,” the first single from Fun, that change finally enters the world.
The song catches Maurice removed from the emotional weight that shaped much of his earlier music. Instead of dissecting heartbreak or revisiting what went wrong, “Sweet” lives inside the uncomplicated pleasure of being completely taken by someone.
“It’s fun. It’s bubbly,” he told The Wonder Mag. “I’m fun, I’m bubbly, I’m easygoing. I’m like a lovable teddy bear. I want to have a good time.”
The song, he explains, comes from that particular stage of infatuation when another person seems to become everything for a moment.
“I’m dating, I’m out here in these streets, and I just want to enjoy it,” he says. “It’s that feeling when somebody has you hooked and you almost don’t care. They’re just sweet.”
That lightness is the universe of Fun.
Maurice does not describe the project as an attempt to deny everything that came before it. His earlier music was deeply autobiographical, often shaped by heartbreak, uncertainty and the long process of letting go. Fun simply finds him somewhere else now.
He has healed enough to want pleasure back. No need to immediately turn attraction into something larger than it is.
For a few minutes, Maurice Fonson is simply allowing something to feel good.
And after years of writing through heartbreak, that may be the sweetest reinvention of all.