Effortlessly cool. Vocally smooth. Miranda Joan has once again created a song that will send hearts a flutter.

Passionate, heartfelt, and stirring “Kiss a Stranger” allows Miranda to at times channel a Beyonce-like vocal power but relies mostly on her own soulful and effervescent voice. With every song I hear from Miranda, I imagine her voice could be that of cloud fairies. There’s a lovely breathlessness and airiness to her vocals that is calming.

On “Kiss a Stranger,” Miranda says,

It was almost a year into lockdown, I’d left New York, moved back to Vancouver, Canada, my career was indefinitely on pause, I was single and living in a studio above the garage at my mother’s house. After twelve years, I was back home, in the woods and isolated. The undercurrent of my existential crisis was also a breakup. And so, as I processed all the above, I spent every night alone in the studio above the garage and wrote songs. What I wanted was to reach out and touch somebody. Anybody. I yearned for connection; for physical touch, and found a deeper appreciation for the simple joy and freedom of meeting someone new, someone outside ‘the pod’; of connecting with a stranger.

Listen to “Kiss a Stranger” below