#ShowMeTalent Cinnamon Challenge!
Hey friends! I'm super excited to show up and participate in another Cinnamon challenge. I forgot to do the last few but this one was right up my ally and with the extended timeline it fit perfectly into my life! As many of you know Catera Combs won the #FortifyThis challenge and is hosting this one, #ShowMeTalent. As a fellow artist I couldn't help but join in and support the challenge she came up with!
It felt weird just singing a song for a talent challenge because y'all know I write music and I sing all the time. But this song felt different. I chose one of my latest original songs, “What Do You Know?” as my submission because this song in particular forced me to tap into talent I didn't know if I had or not. Let me explain...
When I wrote the song I did it with the intentions of leaning into my current challenges. At the time Dustin and I had a fight and I wanted to lean into that challenge but I was also struggling with breath control and range from my pregnancy. My diaphragm is not what it used to be. 😅 (Thanks baby.) This song is what came of that. I decided to treat my insecurities and challenges as strengths and so I set out to write a song that would capture the frustrations of fighting with someone you love, lyrically & vocally. You can tell I struggle to hit some of the notes and I even purposely change the tempo & vibe of the song at the end to not only help with the lack of breath control but to emulate what happens at the end of a fight when you start to get sad and back and slow down.
I feel like I have a brick on my chest when we fight and I feel like that 24/7 anyways (growing baby) so it kinda worked perfectly. Another artist with a bigger range who’s not also sharing their oxygen supply with another human could probably sing it better, but this is my interpretation.
To top it off I showed up with my biggest (current) insecurity: pregnancy acne. Frankly because I’m too lazy to put makeup on and I thought it added a nice touch to showing up where I’m at for this challenge. I mean a challenge isn’t supposed to be easy, right?
I hope y’all enjoy it, it’s not like a lot of my other work because it’s a specific songwriting challenge that I gave myself. It’s rough, but so is life. I guess one of my talents is capturing a moment, especially the hard ones, in song.
Don’t forget to participate in Catera’s #ShowMeTalent challenge as it does end next week on the 31st!