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1/19/2024: HOLY COW

Hey DC Crew! It's been a bit! Hope you're all down amazing!

Ok so life update. No longer going to college this semester. I've been temporarily put on academic suspension because my GPA is absolute Scheisse but at least (hopefully) I'll be able to come back in the fall! Fingers crossed. I'm gonna start working at my old bowling alley in the meantime and work towards getting enough money to pay for a rental to live in while I'm going to school this fall. Can't wait to be able to live in my own home and in my own room where I can actually sleep on a bed and enjoy being cozy and responsible. My bestie Simon's also gonna housemate with me too! Who thankfully I got to see one last time before he headed back to campus. Gonna be tracking down what the best place to live in would be. It would be awesome not to be an apartment but if it comes to that it will definitely make due. Whatever happens will happen and hopefully it can all come to fruition. I have a feeling there's gonna be like 30 obstacles that I didn't prepare for. 

Also! Went on an awesome date with someone! We went to the MOA and rode rides all day and had Shake Shack. Pretty good! Thinking about going on another date to see the Mean Girls in the theater, can't wait!

But yeah, about music. I got a bunch of stuff planned for my next era already but you're all just gonna have to wait for a bit </3

10/24/2023: FINALLY!!! MARCH MADNESS VIDEO OUT TONIGHT!

Hello DC Crew!!! I'm writing this entry MONTHS and MONTHS after my last one earlier this year. 

Since then, I've had my first year of college done. I've played FOUR places over Minnesota. I released my album New World with tons of music videos. I worked over the summer with my besties Tamia and Kylee at a summer camp where we worked with loads of kids as camp councilors. I also made a new friend this year, and it feels foreverlasting,  Simon. I can't describe it, he's so incredible and awesome and I'm SO glad he's in my life. 

My second year of college has started and on the first day I was set back to a point where I was reminded that this place sucks. First few hours, amazing. 5pm, ruined. 

I had to completely take down my album from distribution which got approved THAT DAY due to a song that I could no longer put out at the request of someone. That set the tone for how my college experience has gone so far. I feel like my old friends hate me, there's always a sense that I'm a failure, and I feel tired of everything. I hate college. I hate it I hate it I hate it SOOOO fucking much. 

It's not even just the thought of being around people that I don't feel comfortable with anymore, I just HATE college again. I hated it the last time I wrote here back in February, before I even started to work on my song All Work No Pay. My second album "VELVET LETTER" is now out, and it's release is unlike any kind of release I've done in a LONG TIME, probably since Technology back in 2019. No proper rollout. No lead single. No prolonged proceeding announcement, nothing. Just a surprise drop. 

I find this album to be like a diary of my first year of college, and it was like the "Blue Banisters" of my discography. "New World" was my CATCC, "VELVET LETTER" is my BB. I love it so much and I'm glad I was able to produce something that I spent months at a time processing and mixing and producing legit every single stitch together into a poetic storyline based on the months of my first two college semesters. 

I'm so glad I have my bestie Simon. There's something about his aura that just calms me down and places my roots in a new headspace for a little while. He's helped me so much this year and I only hope he can feel the same sense of security being thrown back at him. He and my new friend Jack helped me film a music video for my song March Madness and I'm so glad that it's FINALLY. DONE. AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!

This song is about a rumor being spread around about me that I proudly stated the N word during a game of hangman. Not true, and I know who spread the rumor around AND of the event in which this instance happened from someone else. Hope you guys enjoy the video! <3

10/27/2022: It's been a while!

Hey everybody! It's been a while since I've written an entry, I got a LOT to tell you!

So basically, aside from my amazing college experience, I want to tell you guys all about the making process of the New World era. I want to start off by saying that without the amazing influential people in my life such as my family and very few select artists I enjoy listening to, New World would never have happened. I actually remember making my song "New World" because I was incredibly inspired by this amazing indie artist named Floral Ray. He had just put out a song in August of 2021 called In Like With You and that was a song I NEEDED to hear. It was beautiful and nothing like I had really heard before, yet the nostalgia radiated off of it. It inspired me to the max the day after it was released and reminded me of the wonderful nature behind the softer shoegaze 80's production. 

While I can't say New World really has this exact kind of sound to it, it's rather quite energetic and more synthpop with an 80's touch to it, without Floral Ray releasing that song that weekend I was on a camping trip with my aunt/uncle and cousins, I don't think New World would even exist in the first place. 

A lot of things makeup the creation of New World. One thing I think I needed to do for this album is actually putting my all into these songs. When ME came out, I got a few people telling me I had no soul while singing and that no emotion was put into the vocals, and I think that really inspired me to experiment with my voice more and make more emotionally grabbing melodies. I have a very interesting range, I'm a tenor, but also a baritone, it's interesting. 

I like to think that without ME, New World would never have happened, and I think that's why I still have a purple ring around my green jewel planet. There's always gonna be an element of ME inside whatever I do I think, because it truly did have everything about me, it had my excitement, my vulnerability, and even contained a level of personal beliefs and stories such as with Layers and True Colors. 

But yeah, for now that's all I want to say about the new album, there's a LOT of I've been doing and planning for it, infact, maybe you'll be getting something very soon...

6/16/2022: I just feel the need to vent

I LOVE all of the support I'm getting for Cravin'!!!! The video just hit over a THOUSAND views yesterday! I couldn't be more proud of my amazing crew of amazing friends that helped with the music video to get to where it is! 

Now I just need to finish my project of making professional edits of the Senior Solo transitions from our last choir concert. That's been taking a lot of time, most that I don't even have, so it's been going rather slowly, but HOPEFULLY if I do it fast and right, it'll all be done by tomorrow or Saturday. I have two left. 

I REALLY want to go on a tour, BADLY. I want to sing live, I want to go on stage and sing to people, I want to see what my performing limits are and push them to the max. 

5/27/2022: My last High School Friday :(

I can't believe this is the last Friday I'll ever have of mandatory school.  It's weird how I'm graduating in a week from now, I don't know what's on the other side but hopefully, it involves more music and art and maybe even  clean room XD

P.S. The milk at school today tasted AWFUL. Literally the worst it's ever been, it didn't even taste like milk it tasted like chocolate dirt mixed with mud and water, ugh. 

P.P.S. Dua Lipa just released a new song with Calvin Harris and Young Thug today called "Potion". It's great-n-all, I LOVE the more smooth disco vibe and her voice on it, but Young Thug.... let's just say ASAP would've made it a whole lot sexier in my opinion, and added to the song. Young's parts in this were just. not. it. 💀