Illustration of a stylized person collapsed on the floor with a spilled drink and another character with shadowy figures behind them, titled 'The Moment' by Adylla.

The song started with what could’ve been just another lunch during the pandemic.

It was a pretty forgettable day. My husband and I ordered takeout sushi, and it came with twenty plastic containers and two plastic bags. I thought to myself, “The food breaks down in our bodies… but can the earth handle all this plastic?”

One meal, two people, so much waste. It is ridiculous.

Will the earth still be livable in a hundred years?

Can we really pretend everything’s okay just because we don’t suffer from the consequences -yet?

The generations to come, what kind of world will they grow up in?

I was feeling overwhelmed and powerless—until I came across a poem by Margaret Atwood called The Moment. One part hit me especially hard:

No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.”

That poem stayed with me. I started writing a song with the same name.

The style of the music is a cross between nostalgic vintage pop and ethereal ambient music, bringing about a yearning for home and soil.  The storyboard of the music video came into being around the same time as the song, and it was realized into stop-motion animation by Hong Kong visual artist Natalie Chan @uroom21. Victor Low, another member of Adylla, enriched the song with his soulful guitar lines. The final version was produced by Mark Zubek and Eric Juu.

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Discover “The Moment”

Official MV: https://youtu.be/J45ZE404tg4
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4jthf9r
Apple Music: https://apple.co/4jvR9mk
YouTube Music: https://amzn.to/4jJUXzS
Others: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/adylla/the-moment

About Adylla

Adylla is a Canadian musical duo founded in 2024 by Hong Kong singer-songwriter Silian Wong and Malaysian guitarist-arranger Victor Low. Inspired by nature and the cosmos, they blend New Age and Post-Progressive Rock to craft emotionally rich, atmospheric soundscapes. Their songs are anchored by meaningful lyrics that invite reflection and connection.

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