I write about what’s important to me. I write about love and my emotional journey in life. I am writing a way that I always wished I could but never had the courage to before. To just say what I’m feeling. Without trying to dilute it and bury it in other words. I don’t feel the need to hide behind that anymore. And if that comes across as no longer having originality or no longer having an emotion, then it’s kind of missing the point in my eyes. There is power in simplicity. It makes every word have to hit harder. It allows you to declutter your mind and your emotions and get to the core of what you’re feeling.
When we started writing new material, I knew I wanted to write songs bigger than myself. I wanted to be confident enough to do that. It took me two years straight of trying to write, with no results, to get there. I felt small, I felt like I couldn’t just say what I needed to say. Until I realized, why the f*** can’t I just say what I want??? It’s so freeing and so satisfying. Sometimes you don’t always need an analogy or a poetic metaphor. Sometimes you just need to say it.
I don’t want to have a niche, one genre that I am confined to. I want to write exactly what I feel. I want to write music that I want to listen to. And that’s what I did. I haven’t lost my identity. It’s the complete opposite. I’m being the truest form of myself. It may be the first time you’re seeing it, but it was always there.