Melissa Bonny sends ‘Snow On Mars’ into space

With ‘Snow On Mars’, Melissa Bonny follows up with the third single from her upcoming solo debut ‘Cherry Red Apocalypse’. After ‘I'm a Monster’ and ‘Snake Bite’, this time she deliberately strikes a quieter note – a ballad that builds slowly but never becomes cheesy.

Bonny herself wrote the song, lyrics and concept. The track was produced by Vikram Shankar and Jacob Hansen, recorded with Morten Løwe Sørensen, Shankar and Korbinian Benedict.

In her Instagram post, Melissa describes the song as something ‘a little different’: a ballad that shifts from electronic to organic elements and tells of world-weariness, thoughts of escape and the ‘beautiful but intimidating infinity of the universe’ with reflective lyrics. It is precisely this tension that runs through the entire track.

Lyrically, ‘Snow On Mars’ is a kind of sci-fi daydream about escapism. Bonny sings about wanting to retreat to the moon while everything on Earth is falling apart. The images of ‘poisoned rain,’ ‘ruins’ and the question of whether life is still possible after the collapse make it clear that this is not about space romance, but about the present.

In the chorus, this fantasy of escape becomes the emotional core:

"I dreamt that I could run away on the moonlight ... Oh, see the snow on Mars"

The song oscillates between gentle melancholy and a quiet urgency. No big drama, more of a quiet ‘I can't see any of this anymore’ – and that's exactly what makes it so poignant.

‘Snow On Mars’ is thus another piece of the puzzle on the way to ‘Cherry Red Apocalypse’, Melissa Bonny's first solo album, which will be released on 23 January 2026. If the singles released so far show one thing, it is that Bonny does not see her solo chapter as a side project, but as a cosmos of its own – sometimes hard, sometimes hymnal, sometimes as ethereal as here.