Songwriting

I started writing songs when I was 17 years old after attending a short songwriting course that my mom had found and put me on.

At the end of the course, we had to write, record and present a demo for the class. I remember being hesitant to do the class because I had no idea how to write a song or what I would write about...

Behind the songs

My Four Friends was the first song I ever put out into the world. I wrote it during the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown about how my walls of my room had become my friends, I spent a lot of this time working on my songwriting, so they heard quite a few stories.

Being in the studio for the first time, producing this song, was such a surreal exprience for me. My dreams of making music were coming to life. So many doors and opportunities opened up. I achieved my first number 1 on Radio, had my first set of radio interviews and opportunities to play live.

It is still a fan favourite and definitely a favourite on mine. It holds a very special place in my heart.

Home was written, recorded, produced and released all in the span of one week. I have travelled to so many amazing places and lived in another country, but there is truly no place quite like this.

This song really captures the joy and warmth we have in South Africa. I am so proud of how it came together and hope you will accept it in your homes, lives, parties, and cars with the same warmth.

Thank you endlessly to the incredible Daniel Baron for bringing this song to life and in such a short time. This song would not be what it is and be so special if it were not for your genius.

I wrote this one around the time I was starting a relationship with a friend, about how we didn’t plan on anything but rather stumbled into it. It’s interesting how one song can hold such different emotions and meanings based on where you are in life. For me, this is that kind of song. If I had to compare what it means to me now compare when I wrote it, it’s vastly different. And I just think that shows how much you are constantly growing and changing everyday.

This song is kind of from the perspective of the other person in the relationship, the one that had checked out long before the relationship ended and who started to show that disconnect through their actions rather than just saying how they felt.

It touches on the struggle of coming to terms with a relationship being over and being wrong, irrespective of the effort being put into it.

At some point, you just need to let go.

To realise that there is no longer a you and them.

Call Me was written after a string of personal, painfully honest songs. One day, I was sick of being down and writing about heartbreak and pain, I wanted to write something fun and joking, making fun of myself and a situation, thinking to just be so unserious and see what would come from it. 40 minutes later I had a full song and a better mood.

I love how tongue-in-cheek the whole song is and how it progressively gets more unhinged.

Anyway, the moral of the story is to save everyone the trouble and just call me

This song came about as kind of a light bulb moment. I remembered seeing a video where someone was talking about the 3 month rule in relationships and how most of the time that is the “make-it or break-it” mark, and started doing a little math on my own relationships. At this point it became clear that mine always ended before September rolled around, my first thought was “huh, there must be something about it”. My second thought was “huh, that would make for a good song”. Fortunately for me, I was also a tiny bit heartbroken at the time of this realisation, so a song came pretty easily.

Favourite Ex is a track that has taken me on an interesting journey of self-discovery and taught me some valuable lessons about love, loss, and the reasoning behind why things happen.

It's about a break up and forcing yourself to move on...

I wrote this album intermittently between the ages of 17 and 22.

Those are some of your most formative years.

Growing up isn’t easy, and I wanted to capture that in this album. There’s constant ups and downs and lessons being learnt and patterns being broken and moments that feel insurmountable. But that’s okay. It’s okay to feel all your emotions unapologetically, they are valid. And it’s so important to look for the beauty and joy in those moments and surround yourself with the people that will lift you up and be there for you when life gets a little too strong.

I had the most amazing, life changing time creating these songs in my bedroom and in studio with Daniel.