WIWO Release Chronicles

 Release Week!!

    “When It Was Over” is maybe the most conviction I’ve had in a song since “The Neighborhood.” I remember the week I wrote it I showed the song to two friends and they definitely did NOT like the beep boops. They have since come around (it is now their favorite song), but to be honest I really didn’t care whether or not they liked it because I loved it deep down to my marrow. I think I like the polarizing nature of this song because if you love it I know you really love it. And that makes me happy. There is no passive opinion on “When It Was Over.” I’ve never heard a song quite like this one.
    I wanna talk about the visualizer now too - Basically, it's a car driving over a road made up of calendar-month-squares with trees that lose their leaves and have them grow back. The idea came to me in a half-awake half-dreaming state of three mornings while my best friend Ella was staying with me in LA. Normally I might just forget about it and go back to sleep but I wrote it down in my notes and that Day we bought watercolors, which I used to create a mock-up. The trees are in the style of Shel Silverstein, “The Giving Tree,” which was one of my favorite books as a child. 

    This song was just an ongoing exploration of creativity. It makes sense to me that “When It Was Over” and its visuals have so many pieces of my childhood woven into them because of how new and unfamiliar the writing and producing process was. I pretty much never write to production. Usually, my songs start on acoustic guitar or piano, so the fact that we wrote this over the beep boops (sorry I don't know what else to call them) was totally uncharted territory. I felt like I was in kindergarten again learning that I can finally count to 20 or draw a dog that actually looks like a dog - that feeling of unadulterated, unwavering pride. Maybe I’m making irrelevant connections, but maybe that’s whY it got me to paint after not painting in so long.
    I’m happy it’s out in the world for all your ears to hear and whether you love it or hate it, thank you for listening (I hope you love it). Release weeks are my favorite weeks and there’s so much I wanna tell you but you’ll find out soon enough. Life is exciting! 

Love,
Grace