Tag: newsong
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25 || lyrics
Songs to me are like containers for feelings. Pre-song, a feeling is sprawling, wild, almost *unbearable*, but then after I write the right song for it— it fits somewhere. It fits in the container I made it. It feels more manageable. I can still feel the thing without feeling overwhelmed by it. It is contained.…
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if/then || 25
If you had expectations of what it would mean to be an adult… If you thought, by now, you could be/do anything, but!.. If you found that you can limit yourself just as much as other people had.. Then this is for you, tomorrow.
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responsible & free
I wrote 25 after a year of realizing that I’m the only one responsible for my career, and that I had a year until I was done with school forever. I felt frightened by the prospect, knowing that sometimes I lie in bed instead of doing work. Knowing that a career in music can be…
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new new old old
Nothing can remove the uncertainty/chaos/confusion of being 25 (except for time itself.) We spend most of our lives in the tension of looking for an answer and not having the answer but so desperately wanting it. Rilke gives solution to the ploy of this young angst telling us to “live the questions now” so that…
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haunted house || bibliography
Bibliographies are proof that work is never done alone, even if the work is done “alone.” I love taking this academic concept and applying it to my songwriting and production. As always, this bibliography is not comprehensive, but merely what/who I remember thinking about when I wrote and produced “haunted house.” bibliography (“haunted house”)
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haunted house || lyrics
i am a haunted house and i am the owner coming home after a 20 year vacation turn on the light it remains dark open the door and it falls off the hinges trip off my own panic trigger as I walk on through creak in the floor I spin around there’s nothing there but…
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i am a haunted house
Finding words to talk about music I’m releasing can be, at times, very tricky. I’ve always used songwriting as a way to process confusing events or feelings. (ok! I’ll be real, all the emotions are confusing to me. Why do we have emotions? {rhetorical— please don’t tell me} and why do they effect me? How dare…
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hypervigilance
I had just moved to a new city in the middle of the pandemic. It is in moments of deep change when it feels like I’ve actually never really noticed what it feels like to be alive. Hypervigilance. But it goes beyond that, it’s not just that I feel like I’m experiencing life for the…