What makes Moonlight so suitable as a debut for Fonseca's artistry is how the coming to life of this project sets the tone for what he will continue to do in his career. In a compositional aspect, the fusion of Bossa Nova and Pop makes sets gives the impression that genre-blending is a prominent aspect of his craft. In future projects, more jazz influences will be apparent as that is where his roots are.

As for the rest of the process, the track is almost entirely self-produced, mixing and mastering being at the hands of his lovely friends and collaborators, Parker DuBray and Catherine Claire – and the added touch of self-production is what makes his work feel more unique to him, and speaks more to all the things that are in his mind when he's composing his tunes.

But shifting focus from what Moonlight could mean in the future as part of a bigger picture, let's discuss all that it is within itself. Just as many young individuals, be it teenagers or people entering adulthood, change is brought and we find ourselves longing for connection. This was a desire not beyond Fonseca upon arriving to college, entering a wildly opposite scene from the one he lived in; growing up closeted to his family in a town by the U.S.-Mexico border where everyone generally knew each other, and moving across the country to attend school in Boston just after coming out to his family, one could imagine how much changed in such little time. This also meant finally being in a place to comfortably search for the connection he longed for.

After some trial and error, he met a guy who he started to feel that sort of spark with after a few dates and began to write Moonlight as a way of expressing what it felt like; wishing for those nights to never end would be because Fonseca would have to wait for another night to come to see his suitor again, exaggerating his infatuation. Finally reaching this connection was something so healing after spending the first 18 years of his life being unable to find it, as his sexuality always felt like a hinderance if not for himself but for the other men around him who were facing their own journeys and struggles with their own authenticity.

This made it all the more frustrating and disheartening when it came to an end, regardless of what terms it ended on. The reason it's difficult to speak on Moonlight in a scope smaller than its bigger picture is because it only details part of what it's like to be a young LGBTQ+ individual, at least in Fonseca's case. Moonlight is the mere introduction to the dating scene and essentially what was the first "good" experience, but deals with the details of not knowing how to face the desperation or wishing time could've stopped in those perfect moments out of fear that sunrise would bring a new day where it all disappears.

Moonlight is your classic lovesick-y upbeat pop song (with Fonseca's genre-blending touch), but it was never Fonseca's intention to be looked at as just that – the nuances of his identity are an important foundation to the story and introduce new feelings unique to those experiences. Moonlight doesn't seem to be that sort of tune right off the bat, but the track is a mere motif in a bigger project that details Fonseca's experiences navigating life searching for connection and exploring his identity. He hopes this single was able to reel people in to a story in development with great insight; Mimi wishes to be the songbird for young Queer and Latino audiences he never had growing up.

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