I wrote “Pity Party” because I was honestly sick of myself. I had entered the introspective and philosophical phase of my existential crisis and man was I a drag. It felt like every time I hung out with someone I would just complain and go on and on for hours about how hopeless I felt about the world and my purpose in it. I remember a specific instance where I had a friend over and I was literally “laying face down contemplating everything.” Like get a grip! I was talking so much about how I needed to change things in my life but then not actually doing anything different at all. Writing “Pity Party” was my wake up call to myself, and after I wrote it I actually did change things. Who said you can’t be your own therapist! (I do not recommend this…) My favorite part of the song is the bridge because it’s literally me talking you through how my brain spirals when I’m overthinking something—which felt like an hourly occurrence at the time.

I truly love this song because I took something that was really weighing me down and somehow turned it into my most fun song yet. I owe a lot of that transformation to my producer, Breydon Beggs, for his incredible vision (I originally wrote the song on acoustic guitar and honestly didn’t know how to imagine it any other way). I hope you love “Pity Party” as much as I do—even though the lyrics are literally existential I can’t help myself from smiling through the whole thing every time I sing it.