BabyFaced was released on 11/11/2021. It is about my experience moving from Oahu to NYC. 

 

BABY FACED track by track:

 

Curtain call:

I wrote ‘curtain call’ originally all on the ukulele as a demo. Over time I had more stuff to say as the situation I was writing about wasn’t over. I wanted a bridge that completely intensified the energy on the song. I knew I needed to take it to the rest of the band. The way this song differentiates three times going back to the intro is probably why it’s one of my favorites.

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Psychedelic Queen:
I feel like out of the whole album this one definitely has the most groovy chorus. I remember singing it for the first time to Avi (guitarist and producer of song) and he just really knew the vibe I was going for. I didn’t want this one to be too punky at all.

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H3:
This one is about a person that doesn’t realize how sick they actually are.

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girlz:
I always found myself in the same cycle when it came to women. I never really had a queer anthem that I grew up listening to that was about frustrations with the same sex relationships/encounters. Every song that I listened to referred to the opposite sex. I hope a lot of queer women/non-binary people can find this relatable and be angry in a positive way while singing. 

 

13 18:
This one I wrote about my little sister. I met her/found out about her when I was 18 and she was 13 so I missed a lot of her childhood growing up. We got really close really fast but as all siblings do , we fought. This song is about that period of a couple months where we just weren’t speaking to each other. This one is technically the first song I did with my band, but just not the first one released.

 

Alika:
This voice over is from a video/facetime visit my mom and I had with
my brother (an inmate) back in 2020.

 

Refrained:
Refrained was the first song I ever released. I wrote refrained about moving to New York from Oahu and still having left over feelings for someone back home. When I first moved to the city in October I was so excited to be in a new environment and meet new people. I met people here in the city that I could have been potentially in a relationship with but it ended up just not working out. I realized that the focus I needed to have should only be towards myself. I didn’t want to be anyones new ‘bitch’. I just wanted to live in the present here.

 

Mommy issues:
This one is definitely a story teller. The intro talks about how I grew up and being able to combine that with not having the balls to to make a move on someone was cool to me. Originally the verse and the choruses were supposed to be two different songs before I presented it to my band deciding to make it into one.

 

Crybby:
Crybby is probably my favorite on the album to be honest. I just feel like the different variations in it really express how I am as a person. The day we recorded this I was definitely an emotional wreck and hearing back on the song I hope you can hear it in my voice. I probably screamed the bridge of this song in the car with my friends too many times.

 

Miniskirt:
This one is the only acoustic song on the album. honestly my least fav lol, my lyrics were so cringe reading back 

 

MFL:
I chose MFL to close the record out because of how empowering it makes me feel. I do not give a fuck about what people think I should be doing with my life.