“I feel like the first two albums were brilliant and I’ve learned so much. She said some of the album was even inspired by Arthur Golden’s novel “Memoirs of a Geisha.” and so this album is so much fun because I wasn’t afraid of anything. “I read that the book at the beginning of the whole process so as I was kind of writing. it was more of the landscape that really inspired me just how it was described was so beautiful and I felt like I was there,” she said. “I think I’m quite inspired by places, like where I grew is kind of wild and kind of moody and so I always write these really sad songs.

And then I moved to London and I feel like these songs are a bit more uplifting.”īirdy’s influences range from Tracy Chapman to The Beatles to Jeff Buckley to her mother, who is a concert pianist. You know, everybody gets sad and I think I just draw from those times when I’m singing.” The singer said though she’s become known for her sad songs, she’s not a sad person: “I’m a pretty happy person - I hope. She added that singing emotional and heavy songs are “what move me the most.” It can also serve as therapy.

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