Tag: music

yourstrulys:

“For a lot of people, their teenage years would be where they were most emotionally accessible, and for me it was the opposite. I realized I was feeling all the feelings, and they felt so singular and so young. When I was 16, it felt important to be unfazed by things. Now I’m deeply fazed.

hayleyikiyoko:

I have been working on finding my voice for years. As an artist, I always want everything I create to represent what my soul feels and sounds like – whether it’s a video concept or a lyric or melody. Two years ago on a rare rainy day in Los Angeles, in a songwriting session with Owen Thomas and Lily May Young, I was venting my frustration about my music not connecting the way I wanted it to. Lily looked me in the eye and asked, “Tell me something nobody knows about you, something you are afraid to sing about?“ I immediately thought, well I like girls and that’s what I want to sing about, but even then I struggled to say it out loud. Finally, I told Lily that I always say “you” and “them" and never the pronoun “her" in all my songs because I was afraid it wouldn’t connect. We talked more about concepts and my experiences, and how I loved the idea of stealing another guy’s girl because that was always a fantasy of mine. Growing up, everything I did was always about girls. I took dance because of girls. I got involved in student council because of girls. Not that I ever expected any of them to like me back, but I just felt comforted being around them, even if I could never date them. So there we were. The song “Girls like Girls" was born.

anthracinus:

you asked if i was feeling it, i’m psycho high 
know you won’t remember in the morning when i speak my mind
lights are on and they’ve gone home, but who am i?
oh, how fast the evening passes, cleaning up the champagne glasses 
                                                     we told you this was m e l o d r a m a.