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Happy. Moved. Full. Releasing Blueberry has been such a wonderful experience and it’s just the beginning. It can be terrifying to feel that your art is “ready” to be shared. I say it in quotes because ready is so subjective. I could keep working on something, endlessly searching for some kind of perfection but the reality is it takes guts to decide it’s ready for others consumption. Thank you for accepting my guts with love and open arms. Thank you for showing up in some way for me because it fuels me to push harder and keep moving. Creating with intention and seeing how far I’ve come gives me great hope for a bigger future. 💙 📸: @oj_slaughter
BLUEBERRY DAYDREAM IS AVAILABLE NOW! • I’m so excited today is finally here and I can share this song with you all! Please listen, share it, sing along, dance, make babies, whatever just please enjoy!!! Let me know what you think! Synthesizers- Stephen Griffin Drums- Tom Burke Engineer- Ben Aiken Mixing/Mastering- Scott Bowers Cover Art: Jaina Cipriano Huge thank you to everyone involved in this release, I am over the moon
1... 🔵 Wow so tomorrow is the day!! I honestly can’t believe it. Make sure you follow me on Spotify to get notified about the release, or pre-order on iTunes to save it forever ☺️ 📸: @jainasphotography
2... 🔵 Morning dew I see you when the night’s through Ocean distance in my head Underwater, not a clear thought Lost not forgotten, Lost never forgotten 🔵 When this situation became the forefront of my mind I would have endless dreams, really nightmares, reliving my situation, trying to prove myself. I’d wake up and remember my friend and realize our minds were really in completely different places. Miles apart from common ground. I felt like I was underwater trying to read, but nothing was clear enough. Everything was lost, broken, and forever changed, but I knew, and know, that it’s not something I’m trying to just put out of my mind and forget. It is something that changed my entire world in an instant, and even though it was ugly it is important to hold onto in some capacity. And it’ll always hold space in my mind, even this morning I awoke from another vivid dream, to find it hadn’t been reality. Honestly, daydreams are much safer. ☁️ 📸: @jainasphotography
3 🔵 Blueberry daydream Ruffled feathers in the stream You know where you take me Blueberry daydream 🔵 I can remember so clearly writing these lyrics, but they came from somewhere in my mind that I don’t usually have access to. It was 7:30am and I had just walked into work. I remember grabbing a pen and paper, and just writing these lyrics down verbatim. They just flowed out of me and onto the paper and I looked on and thought “what the fuck does this even mean?!” I try to read into the deeper meaning behind it all the time and I can come up with a ton of different excuses for some philosophical or profound meaning, but in all reality they are just some words that fell out of me in that order. The rest of the song was written around these words, and they have so much more meaning to me, but I can say right now that the “Blueberry Daydream”, is the space in my mind to help escape from the darkness. 📸: @jainasphotography
4 🔵 Streetlights cast a shadow on my mind Wandering nights, gazing out on a dawning dream Fixed on a moment 🔵 I wrote this song in 2018 after a year of things in my life having seemed to have fallen apart. It was apparent that things I’d grown accustomed to would never be the same, and I knew that I was the root of that change. It was so hard to process, and my reality seemed more like a nightmare than my actual nightmares. I found myself sitting on my porch staring at the streetlights for hours every night wondering about all the things I could I have done differently. Dreaming about how I could fix things, and imagining every scenario outside of the one I was stuck in. 📸: @jainasphotography
5 🔵 Over the next few posts I will be going through the lyrics to Blueberry Daydream and sharing what they mean to me. I tend to write somewhat cryptically, so I wanted to shed a little light into this song. TLDR: Blueberry Daydream is about trying to escape my mind as it races over the details of the end of a friendship. Becoming consumed by thought and needing to detach, I fall into a dream state in order to escape, in order to move on. 📸: @jainasphotography
Next Wednesday (7/10) at 9:50 I’ll be playing Blueberry Daydream and another tune or two at the Middle East Corner! It will be released everywhere at midnight that night, but if you wanna see it live come hang out!! 📸: @oj_slaughter
Less than one week til Blueberry! I’m freaking out 😝 📸: @oj_slaughter
Can you tell I was outrageously happy to be at the @queermakersmarket over the weekend!? @oj_slaughter is so talented my goshhh! 😍😍
Set a reminder: Blueberry Daydream is coming on 7/11! You could get a free Slurpee AND jam to my new single at the same time, what a treat!! 😍 #selfportrait
I’ll be at @queermakersmarket all day today! We’ll be performing at 3:30, so come on down and get out of the rain!
Tomorrow is the @queermakersmarket 2-6 filled with incredible vendors and artists, and then ending with a drag show! Pay what you can and come enjoy a beautiful day. 📸: @aygottour
Hey guys! I am so proud and excited to announce that I will be releasing my first completely original single on Thursday July 11th! (2 weeks from today!) It has taken a lot of work to get to this point, and I couldn’t have done it without some incredible people! • First the wonderful and talented Stephen Griffin @hi_im_steve_g playing keys and synths. We wrote this song together and usually he’s the one man band behind me, so it’s been amazing to see it all really come to life on this track. • Next up with his mixing/mastering magic is the lovely Scott Bowers aka Stone Komodo @stonekomodo who took this song way further than I even imagined. He took all my strange and cryptic notes and created something I am so proud of. • Then we have the awesome Tom Burke @thekidtunes who took some time out to play drums for us, and he nailed it!! • I also want to thank Ben Aiken @baiken22 for spending his night engineering at the Record Co. Studio back in May. Couldn’t have done this without him! • And lastly, I want to thank Jaina Cipriano @jainasphotography for creating the set and shooting my cover art and promo shots. I had a vision in my mind, and she truly brought it to life. Walking into her studio space I felt overwhelmed with joy because it was all really coming together. I hope you enjoy this first shot, and there’s more to come 😊 • I’m used to rolling with the punches, so while this wasn’t the smoothest process from start to finish, the end result is something far greater than I realized was possible. The twists and turns along the way make the product that much more exciting. I really hope you’re intrigued by what’s coming, because the pride I’m feeling has me lifted off the ground.
Stay on the lookout tomorrow because I’ll be making a big huge announcement!! 🎉
Happy little camper today working on the business side of this whole musician thang. 💁🏻‍♀️ Feeling like a super boss lady makin shit happen. With that said, Big announcement coming Thursday! 👀
Coming up this weekend!! Check out the link in bio on @queermakersmarket to get tickets! Gunna be a great time!!
 
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