MUSIC

Brooklyn Grace

MUSIC Brooklyn Grace

Love Letters

by Brooklyn Grace

thoughts behind album.

This is the first album I’ve released under my name with confidence.

I mainly focused on writing and trying somewhat tell a story that is honest yet still rather sweet. The use of my name was important, I wanted it to mean something. Characters and stage names can sometimes feel like a wall to hide behind, so I wanted to peel away those layers here. Themes of vulnerability, love and growth all throughout. I chose love letters as a title being that handwriting is my favorite love language. Every word I recorded started as ink on paper. A few tracks are spoken word poetry to emphasize what I’m trying to do here. Writing is the grey area between self and others, a silent language that can carry to speech. Music and poetry are some of the most beautiful art forms to showcase such a craft. Songs such as Ingenue, Brooklyn Grace, and Subtext play around in my world of acting and how its shifted certain perspective I have when it comes to love, and self, and colliding the two.

Themes.

French and Paris are common themes this album and it’s not just because it’s pretty. I started writing this music while on a trip to Paris to visit my sister all throughout diving deeper and deeper into emotional involvement via text in a completely different time zone. It was an odd detail that I wanted to carry out in the overall ‘vibe’ of this album. with titles like ‘C’est la Vie (interlude)’ and ‘Ingenue’ being French titles .“I”'s to “we” even starting a sample form “Diobolique” a French movie the 50’s that directly translates to devil. The scene I chose is a clip of the main couple fighting simply because the rhythm of a fight sounded better to me than romantic words I found in other clips.

“I notice the beauty in empty spaces, notice the subtext in empty faces. My shoes have ribbon ‘cuz I lost my laces. My brain resides in dreamy hazes. “

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