October brought darker tracks. Not intentionally, just what emerged during writing sessions.
Dying with Me started as a love song. Somehow transformed into something else entirely. The melody stayed optimistic whilst lyrics explored grief in real time. That contrast felt honest – how loss actually works in daily life.
Our Love is Dead followed two weeks later. More direct, less metaphorical. Sometimes you need to state things plainly, even when it hurts to sing them.
People ask if sad songs make you sadder. Experience suggests the opposite. Writing about difficult emotions creates distance from them. Transforms personal pain into something external, something manageable.
The recording process helped too. Engineers provide objective perspective when you’re drowning in your own feelings. They hear arrangements where you only hear chaos.
Mental health isn’t separate from creativity – they’re interconnected systems. Good days produce different music than bad days. Both types matter. Both serve purposes.
Part of the Way (To Mother) emerged from loss that happened years ago but never fully processes. Some grief stays with you, reshaping how you understand relationships and mortality.
Songwriting allows exploration of experiences too profound for ordinary conversation. Music creates space for emotions that don’t fit into daily life, memories that demand acknowledgment but resist explanation.
— Indie pop artist, musician Anastasiia Ledovskaia