Amanda Holley Gives “SEASONING” a New Visual Life Two Years On
A Newark-born, NYC-and-LA R&B singer lets a two-year-old single bloom again, this time with a video that treats love like something you season, not something you rush.
“SEASONING” has been out since June 2024. The new chapter is the picture around it: a July 2026 video that finally lets the song move the way it always wanted to.
“I owe my life to music. It’s everything I am: my lifeline, my saving grace.”
A 2024 Song, a 2026 Picture
“SEASONING,” featuring Andre “GC” Fennell of Gate Citizens, landed on June 28, 2024. It is not a brand-new drop. What is new is the visual: a July 30, 2026 video directed by Kevin Huang, Yulia Shusharina, and Holley herself, shot across the Lower East Side, Los Depressos Studios in Brooklyn, Hotel Chantelle, Duals Natural, and New York waterfall country. The song already knew how to linger. The pictures finally catch up.
What we love is the patience in that. Plenty of singles get a clip on the week they arrive and then disappear. Holley let this one sit until the story around it felt as rich as the vocal. Emmillienne Bellaire is on the record with her, Michael Prochillo mixed and mastered it, and the whole thing still sounds like someone deciding love is allowed to take time.
A Voice That Treats Music as Home
Holley was born in Newark and now splits her life between New York and Los Angeles. She talks about music the way some people talk about a person who got them through: a lifeline, a saving grace, the thing that made the rest of the journey worth it. She is a self-taught pianist and violinist, a Recording Academy voting member, and someone who writes and acts when she is not singing. Keep that short. The point is not a résumé. The point is how plainly she means it.
You can hear that five-octave range without her showing off. “SEASONING” is sultry R&B that stays close to the lyric: opening up to love after keeping the door shut. She has said she wants to be known for turning hard history into something warmer. This single does that work without turning the song into a speech.
Stay With This One
If you only saw the 2026 coverage, it is easy to treat “SEASONING” like a new single. It is not. It is a song that earned a second look. Put the video on, then let the audio run again without the pictures. Either way, we think you will understand why she came back to it.
Start here if you have not spent time with Amanda Holley yet. The forthcoming HOLLEYGRAPHIC EP can wait. This is the door.
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