When I listen back, I have memories of the people that I was making it with. I want each person's personality to be able to shine on the album and to come through. I was still learning how to write a song and each album has a slightly different lineup and I always have wanted that to show. Fallen came out when I was 21 years old, and it was all really new. On how her and her band have grown together That was all about sort of trying to describe what the music sounded like to me. When it came to the look, the clothes I would wear and everything, it was about showing that as a visual, so distressed Victorian element mixed with something rock, you know, something edgy, you know, with the chains and the oh, back then was the trip pants from Hot Topic and stuff. So it became sort of this experiment to start mashing those things up. and honestly, the more heavy that it was, the more I saw similarities between that and the classical music that I loved. From like Soundgarden, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, just all this incredible rock music heavy. I wanted to be Mozart, I wanted to be a composer, and then I got really hit and struck by the alternative music scene in the 90s. sat me down and showed me the film Amadeus. YouTube On the inspiration for the sound and look of Fallen in music videos But the feeling that it is now to have that burden lifted is incredible because I really have so much more energy to focus on the music itself. It's, if I'm being honest, part of the reason that we haven't released an album every couple of years.

I made it, like I fought the fight and I won the fight. Typically, that doesn't mean they're the ones with the brains and I'm just the ones singing.

es, I'm a girl standing up front with all these guys behind me. One thing that's really been consistent is having to fight constantly. My journey and my experience with this has been so layered and had so many chapters at this point. I've been through quite a few legal battles and more behind the scenes with this band just having to fight for my right to use my own voice and not try to represent something that's going to benefit somebody else. And, when she stood up and just read the words of her experience and what it felt like and what it meant to her as a human being, it just occurred to me that words have so much power that over anything else that could have possibly thrown at her, her words were stronger. When I first started writing that song, it was after reading Chanel Miller's incredible impact statement, her testimony at the end of her trial. On the band's first political anthem, 'Use My Voice'

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