New Song, new shows, same old dress
Tea tho, for real, oh definitely.
if you don't spell definitely as defienetly the first time, then we can't be friends. I don't make the rules. In fact. the rules of Grammar, i HATE;
Buckle up, this one might be long
I released a new song today as a surprise. My album comes out in 4 weeks and I feel like I have been waiting for it forever. I bet y'all sick of me talking about it lol. I think next album i'm just gonna drop it. like. fuck.
Anyway, the song is called Jupiter and it was the last song I wrote for the album and I wrote it all by myself. I brought it to Josh fully ready for production. His production on this song is some of my fave he has ever done.
This song features backing vocals from Meredith Louise, John Roddick and Nora Mourant. It also features drums by Iris Yakamyshyn aka PLEASEBENiCE
In the last 5 years I have learned so much about song writing and I love all the different ways a song can be born, and when I write a song alone they become so deeply special to me.
I wrote this song 3 days after getting back from Cranrbook in october 2024, we had just shot the album cover and we had picked the picture. Prominently featured in the image was the new Jupiter glyph tattoo my friend Kya had given me. A symbol I associate with my favourite part of my birth chart, I have Jupiter in cancer, which is a placement an old friend of mine calls "The Luke Skywalker Placement" a beacon of destiny, growth, and optimism. It balances out me having 7 planets in capricorn... LOL
Seven planets in Capricorn, I'm bored
I wrote the song because I felt the album was incomplete, I needed a song that was FOR ME ONLY. A reminder that no matter where I go I can always return to myself. It continues this theme of vulnerability hidden inside arrogance. It was inspired by all the men from my youth who were lovely and kind to me. The ones who I projected my dads view of me onto and forged stories about how they hated me too. The cranbrook trip relieved all of that worry because I had the opportunity to ask a friend if it was true and he said it wasn't and that in the way way back he always just kinda saw himself in me and what I was going through at home. He gave me many opportunities to be away from it and in my creativity when I was younger and while we never spoke on it he was actively doing his best to be a positive role model for me without overstepping. Let me tell you it was so nice to drop this album at his feet and thank him for helping me hold that sweet part of myself I could have lost. Sad I lost years of friendship, grateful for the years ahead.
I hope you enjoy it!
You sent me to the wind, let me show you where I've been
Upcoming things:
Thursday September 11th - Rifflandia (Victoria) We play 5pm on the Main Stage
Thursday September 18th - Jurassic Park Drag Show at R&B (Vancouver) - Tickets
Sunday September 21st - OVERBOARD! a Drag Show at The Dinghy Dock Pub (Nanaimo) - Nanaimo folks hmu
Tuesday September 23rd - Twin Lakes come sout for you to hear
Thursday October 2nd - Twin Lakes Release Party at The Fox (Vancouver) - Tickets
You can buy a Vinyl of my new album - HERE
Ok that is all for now...
XO
Dust
ps. Called my mom, she is doing just fine.
