My Little Voice pt 1
Sara Bareilles recently dropped a new song for an Apple TV show called ‘Little Voce’. A song she actually dreamed up years ago one night that instantly became her mission statement to herself. She wanted this new song, the one she caught by the tail that one morning, to be included in her first album. The music executives overseeing her debut album, however, led her to put the song aside and it looks like it was just meant to be, as Sara Bareilles expressed, “I was devastated at the time, but I love the poetic justice that 15 years later, it’s the theme song for a TV show all about a young artist finding her way. It’s perfect.”
I fell in love with the story of this song as well as its words. I profoundly related to her poetic expressions to the point of getting goosebumps! As I listened to the song for the first time on a sunny and scenic route with the windows rolled all the way down, the wind dancing with my hair, while the the mountainous terrain undulated beside me like swimming mermaids…
I remember the experience of getting to know this new song. See, when I (we, a lot of us?) listen to a song for the first time there is this intricately continuous process happening;
Merely considering the lyrical aspects of getting to know that song - as ‘Little Voice’ played and revealed itself to me from one second to the next, there was a line-up of words flowing into my ears. Simultaneously my brain was working to put the words together to form each idea. Each time the this idea would form in my mind, I would get extreme goosebumps because they spoke to my expeirences! With every goosebump episode, I’d find myself shouting “yeeees” aloud while still being drowned out by the force of the wind in my car.
Why am I even telling you all of this?? Well it’s a part of a special moment where I experienced freedom. You see, I wasn’t just sitting at home and listening - the forces of nature + forward motion driving along a freeway amplified my experience of someone else (Bareilles) unlocking in me what I couldn’t completely express myself. What couldn’t I quite express? Well it has to do with my ADHD in highschool, and the fact that I, too, had a little voice but couldn’t speak it out.
That’s next! :)
Give this song a listen, and come on back (please!!) to let me know...how did you relate to this song? What is your little voice?
“Sometimes a little voice can say the biggest thing.” Has your little voice been missing?
-Larissa
