Letter to You was the first song I ever wrote. I wanted it to be a surprise for my parents, so I had to be sneaky with my producer about getting it recorded. I had to make excuses as to why my parents couldn’t come to my voice lessons when I would be practicing the song. This song was very intimidating to write and record because not only was it my first, but I did it entirely without my parents, who otherwise came to all my voice lessons and recordings. I had finished this song in time to perform it in front of my parents at a showcase I had in 2024. Since this was the first song ever recorded on my album, by the time I actually finished the album, it had been two years since the first recording, and my voice had changed so much since then that I had to re-record it to fit my voice now. Although I refused to make any changes, and re-recorded it the same way I had sang it two years ago. Love this song!

I wrote All My Fault with one of my friends while in junior high. It was originally called “Something I Did”. It was supposed to be a duet, but my friend ended up moving before we could finish the song. I had so much fun writing this song that I decided to put it to a music video. We spent weeks storyboarding and planning out this video. We got permission to rent out my junior high school the day I finished 8th grade. I got all my friends to come be in the video. This video was a ton of work, and I was exhausted by the end of the day. I was so excited when I found out that my all-time favorite teacher was able to come be in the music video. I will be forever, proud of it!

I knew the second I heard this type-beat (the instrumental) that this song would be about my two dogs that died a few years ago, Cassi and Linus. I would look at pictures of them as I wrote and recorded this song. Originally, this song was called “Cass and Line,” and it is still referred to as such around my production crew, but I decided to change the name to “Dear Heaven” after one of my dad‘s friends shared how much this song touched him and how it reminded him of losing loved ones much too soon. The words “Dear Heaven” aren’t used anywhere in this song because I changed the name after it was already recorded. I will always love this song!

This was one of the first songs I ever started, then I sidelined it for a couple years. Towards the end of my album, I came back to it and it is one of the last songs I finished. This is about my current dog, Archie. He is absolutely the best! I liked the title “Stay” because it refers to Archie staying with me, but it is also a command we use often with him. One of the first lyrics I ever wrote in this song was, “I’m in Neverland with Peter Pan, no I don’t want to grow up. No Captain Hook ain’t in my book, it’s only you and I,” so I made sure I kept these lyrics and worked them into the new version of this song. Later, my mom and my producer played off this fairytale theme with the lines, “I’m in Wonderland, Alice take my hand, no I don’t want to grow up. No queen of hearts can pull her cards, it’s only you and I,” the one part I HAD to include was something about Archie‘s big brown eyes, staring at me every day (chorus).