Studio 168

life update is a reader-supported publication. Sign up to read my essays, hear my voice notes and receive my unreleased demos straight to your inbox ♥️ Hello loves, I am really loving vlogging at the moment — two videos went out in May and I’m going to try and share even more over summer. I think I need to get better at titling them as they’re currently a bit dreary-sounding, which isn’t actually the mood of the content at all.

Shared this idea in my vlog this week and realised I forgot to post it here — so as promised, this is camera shy. I love exploring the idea of muse/voyeur in my songs and this was another angle (pun unintended-ish) on that.

life update is a reader-supported publication. Sign up to read my essays, hear my voice notes and receive my unreleased demos straight to your inbox ♥️ Hello loves, This month brought two more weddings my way — firstly the marriage of sweet Holly and Ben, who happened to choose a venue next to where I grew up. I got a lift to the party from my sister’s boyfriend, quite novel for someone who has had to board flights too see her friends get hitched.

image via pinterest I’m meant to be working on my other songs this week but in a tale as old as time, in a feat of procrastination I ended up writing something new. I was looking through my old beats in case there’s anything I want to develop and I found this — it was fully arranged, and I had written the first two lines so I thought why not try and finish it. It’s hopeful and light, the Cartier line is a bit fast and loose for my style lol but we’ll run with it.

I went back to CROOK’s studio to film an in-depth breakdown of the production on our song Chrome! We built the foundation of the track in one session and worked on the rest over Whatsapp, so it was so fascinating to hear the isolated stems and to see how he arranged the final version. CROOK is an incredible producer who I’ve been a fan of fo…

life update is a reader-supported publication. Sign up to read my essays, hear my voice notes and receive my unreleased demos straight to your inbox ♥️ Immensely grateful we’ve made it out of the winter trenches and into the thick of Spring.

life update is a reader-supported publication. Sign up to read my essays, hear my voice notes and receive my unreleased demos straight to your inbox ♥️ As you can see from the header image, pink is the colour of March for me — blossom in the air and the longer days extending the sunsets into shades between peach and lilac. I’ve had such a lovely month, i’ve spent a lot of time with friends and family.

via graphicdesignbot on tumblr If creating things was a class, I would get an A+ for starting ideas and a C- for completion. I am terrible at finishing my songs. I think because it’s a new process to me, I haven’t cracked the system yet. Everything takes longer than I think it will (we’re talking days, not hours) and I often spiral into thoughts of, “does this even sound good?

life update is a reader-supported publication. Sign up to read my essays, hear my voice notes and receive my unreleased demos straight to your inbox ♥️ My birthday month is over — I kept it low key this year and organised a few different hangouts with friends and controversially I preferred it to the big party I had last year. Getting one-on-one time with friends is unmatched.

Chrome came out this morning!! I hope you love this one as much as I do ♥️ I want to lift the lid on the process of how this song came to be, as I used to have a lot of questions about how songs came together especially when artists worked with collaborators. So here it is from start to finish, with the song in all its different stages. I made this song with the wonderful artist and producer, Crook.