Mckenna Grace does not just play Maysilee Donner in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. As of today, she sings her, too. “Half Alive,” Grace’s contribution to the film’s companion album, is out now, and the official audio is streaming on her YouTube channel.
The song is a slow, aching ballad built around a promise between two people trying to hold on for each other. “Promise you’ll hold me when I’m half alive,” she sings in the chorus, and one verse reaches for the sister Maysilee carries with her: “I was a sister once, I carry that love closely.”
Grace marked the release on Instagram on Thursday evening, telling fans, “I hope you love it, and love Maysilee Donner,” and pointing ahead to the film’s arrival in eight days.
“Half Alive” sits at track 16 on “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Album),” the 29-song collection Trevor Decker News has been following since Lionsgate and MCA revealed the full lineup on November 2. The album also carries Lizzy McAlpine’s “The Wheel,” Noah Kahan’s “Draw You Out,” and a homecoming performance of “Deep in the Meadow” from Jennifer Lawrence, whose Katniss sang the lullaby in the first Hunger Games film.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping reaches theaters one week from today, on November 20, with Grace’s Maysilee already drawing praise from co-star Maya Hawke, who singled out her grit earlier this month. The full album is streaming now.