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‘Floating’ is about what happens when life feels so overwhelming you don’t know what to do with yourself. You’re just coasting through the air.
After experiencing a traumatic injury in the spring of 2022, my outlook on life changed a bit. Suddenly, things I’d never thought about became a daily reflection. It was exhausting. This lo-fi tune embraces the moments when your thoughts feel like they own you.
Tell the story, no matter the shape or form, because it matters.
From a very young age, I’ve loved telling stories, whether that was forcing my family into the living to watch the off-off-off-off Broadway production of Baby Fairy Princess or crayola drawings of stick figures singing. I was always doing it.
Writing has always been there for me. In times of excitement, joy, grief, and fear, I always found myself privately picking up a pen and pencil, aka my notes app, and journaling in-depth details of an outstanding moment or event that occurred. Taking instrumental lessons added a new level of expressivity—a new world of storytelling. I started writing silly little elementary school heartbreak songs, which will never see the light of day. And as ridiculous as those songs were, they helped me get through what felt like the end of the world.
By the end of my K-12 years, I’d written over 150 short stories, semi-complete songs, scripts, and movie and musical pitches in my bed late at night. After my first semester in college as a music student, I started gaining confidence in my ability actually to release my original work to the public. I spent the next year reaching out to every singer-songwriter friend of mine and professors and soaked up all the knowledge they shared. In 2022, I teamed up with the indie producer Hamza Hasan. Together, the two of us spent the summer on Facetime calls, throwing ideas back and forth and experimenting with sound. That August, I recorded my first-ever single, ‘Floating.’
Stayed tuned for some new indie-folk-pop tunes in collaboration with Nashville singer-songwriter Sara Durbin.