As an "artist," I've struggled a lot with the promotional/financial side of my career. I have this mentality that I'm going to write this beautiful/weird music and people are just going to throw money at me eventually. But obviously, that isn't reality. I started writing this song, "Pretty Little Words," in May because I was frustrated with my inability to write "the perfect song." This summer was supposed to be spent really searching myself for material and getting some traction in the music world, and that didn't entirely happen. This song is explicitly about wanting to write a beautiful song; beautiful in a musical or intellectual or "je-ne-sais-quoi" sense. On an ironically more profound level, it is also about material and professional aspiration.
I've started the piano arrangement for the song, which you can listen to here.
