About the debut.

I am beyond excited about my new album. It feels very surreal to have just completed an 11-song body of work that I am genuinely proud of. Sincerely, I would listen to every single song that I recorded. That is not something that happens to me every time… I am not always the person who wants to listen to my music, which is possibly why my old music didn’t do as well as this new music is doing.

I take pride in knowing that I can sit and listen to my album, jam to it, and be PROUD to show my friends this new music. It is not always the case that someone raves about their new music (at least I don’t think I am alone in this).

This album reveals a lot of truths. I mean, it is called “burn me into something better”.

The truths I reveal in this record have to do with the way that loss is often FOR us and not against us. We are always so concerned with did something get away? Did I lose what was supposed to be mine? This album combats that completely. It says that everything that has left me was never mine to begin with. It says if you burned me, well, it's your loss because I am better than I ever was because of it.

A very interesting juxtaposition in this album is the thrilling excitement of pop music intermixed with some deep feelings I share about loss in my life. On one end you have a song called “I Like Men Who Like Men” (I’ll let you listen to the song yourself to laugh out loud with me at how real this is for women). On the other end you have “Before You”, a song I wrote about the feeling of knowing you were a better person before and after someone, but not when you were actually with that person. The most heartbreaking of all, “When Will It Be My Turn”, which I actually wrote after being stood up and sobbing in my room.

Hey, truth hurts, and that was my reality, so no shame there.

I don’t claim to have all the answers of what life should be like in this album, but I do have notable theories of what is meant for you and what is not. A theory such as that you don’t have to be the person you are by the age of 30, 40, or even 50. You can also know something is completely wrong for you and allow yourself to go back a few times for the fun of it.

This album is my greatest attempt at diving deeper into who I am and sharing it with you. It’s the first time I am being so authentically myself in my music that it feels like you are opening a page in my diary.

I owe this album to my gut - to the thing that kept telling me “you need to pivot”.

Thank you to my mind, heart, and soul for being so damn right.