“I didn't feel comfortable putting out music until I actually went through something, because I wanted all of my songs to be relatable," Hawkins says. "I really had something to talk about when I went through a tumultuous relationship. At the time, I had fallen into a depression and I stopped actually recording music for a minute. And then I had to get back to it.”
Hawkins wrote
Mixed Emotions “on and off” between the ages of 20 and 25. His song "Situationship" was inspired by an old flame, and Hawkins defines the term as “more than friends with benefits, but less than relationships.”