BombayMami and TroyBoi Reunite on Slow-Burn ‘Honey Liquor’
There is a particular kind of sweetness that asks something of you, and on “Honey Liquor,” released September 18, BombayMami has decided exactly how much she is willing to give. The Indo-Swiss singer, songwriter and creative director reunites with London producer TroyBoi for a single that moves at the pace of a long, knowing glance: unhurried, heavy in the low end, and threaded with South Asian vocal ornament that curls around the beat like smoke. It is their second record together, and it lands at a moment when the global diaspora is no longer asking permission to be heard in the mainstream.
The partnership began with “Beggin,” the flute-laced standout from TroyBoi’s 2025 EP ‘Rootz,’ a five-track project on which the producer, whose heritage spans India, China, Portugal and Nigeria, turned toward the Bollywood soundtracks his mother played at home. BombayMami was the new voice on a roster that included Punjabi veterans Jazzy B and Amrit Maan, and she held her ground. At the time, she credited Troy with a rare gift, observing that he “makes minimal production feel massive.” “Honey Liquor” tests that theory at a lower tempo. Where “Beggin” ran at 130 beats per minute, the new track settles around 110 in a brooding D minor, leaving wide pockets of air for her voice to fill.
And fill them she does. Her delivery is sultry but exact, each phrase clipped where a lesser singer would linger. The lyric is a study in restraint dressed as indulgence. “‘Honey Liquor’ is about keeping your eyes on the prize, even when temptation feels sweet and intoxicating,” she says. “It’s sexy, playful, and a reminder not to lose focus.” The tension is the point: a woman savoring the pull of distraction precisely because she knows she will not be pulled under. That the record is, in her words, her “second song with my bro TroyBoi” only sharpens the sense of two artists who trust each other enough to take their time.
TroyBoi’s credentials frame the stakes. This is the producer who began making beats standing in the kitchen of a London studio apartment and went on to soundtrack Rihanna’s 2019 Savage x Fenty show, turn Billie Eilish’s “My Boy” into a remix approaching 110 million Spotify streams, and pass 111 million more with “RedEye” alongside Justin Bieber. His recent catalog, from the Latin-inflected ‘Influendo’ to 2024’s ‘4 On Da Floor,’ reveals an artist who treats genre as a passport rather than a border. That he keeps returning to BombayMami says something about what he hears in her.
What he hears is a sensibility built between two worlds. Raised across India and Switzerland, BombayMami absorbed Bollywood melody and Western beats in equal measure, and her breakout singles “Fire in Delhi” and “Hot Boyz” folded Indian classical texture into R&B and pop. Her image-making is as deliberate as her sound: the clip of her carving down the Swiss Alps in a vivid red lehenga has passed seven million views across Instagram and TikTok, a single frame that says more about diasporic confidence than most manifestos. Her UK run, spanning BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekender, SXSW London and The Great Escape, suggests the industry is paying close attention.
“Honey Liquor” arrives alongside the rollout of ‘Peaceful Attitude,’ her debut album of tabla, sitar and multilingual lyricism set against forward-leaning production. The title reads almost as a wink. There is nothing passive about this music, and nothing apologetic. As South Asian artists reshape festival bills and streaming playlists far beyond their home markets, BombayMami is making the case that belonging everywhere is not a compromise. It is a position of power, and on this record, she sounds entirely at ease holding it.
