Today feels different. It’s a release day for my new song, a remix of Half Life with Green Ring. I’ve been through a lot of release days, but this one feels somehow lighter. Like ease. Or expecting a wonderful surprise. Or contentment. Or like I’m not pushing a boulder up a hill. To be honest, I haven’t had a lot of those days lately. Things have been hard on my heart. I've felt stuck and stagnant, despite fighting so hard for things to change. Like I'm running so hard but someone is holding a hand on my forehead. Or like chasing a carrot on a string while I'm on treadmill, like you see in old cartoons.

So grateful to be releasing new music again. I've been working away on a whole new project, and the first song I'm releasing off of it is called Half Life. Half Life is about struggling with depression. It’s about looking at my life and being afraid that I wasn’t going to live up to my full potential. About feeling like I had worked so hard and been through so much, only to feel like I still wasn’t living up to the expectations I had for myself. About the kind of hopelessness that settled around me when I felt like I was failing at living my purpose in life. I don't think I'm alone in that feeling though. I think a lot of Millennials in particular are feeling that way. Some have started to call it Millennial Rage. I called it Half Life.

Last year I got the opportunity, thanks to Super League Gaming, to create and produce a custom song for a metaverse experience. They were creating a custom virtual world on Roblox for MTV centered around the 2022 VMA Awards. There were so many cool virtual activations to explore in the metaverse experience, and one of them was a music studio. That’s where the music I created came in. Players could explore the music studio and remix the song that I created for it.

Hi everyone ❤️,

I’m really excited to announce that I’ve released my first solo NFT for a song called There Used To Be Four.

There Used To Be Four is a song that honors my father who passed away in 2016. I wrote this song about wanting to remember what it was like when he was still alive. He was a photographer who took pictures and video of EVERYTHING growing up. So this song is about flipping through his old pictures like a retro slideshow - to feel what it was like back then. Before everything happened. It’s about nostalgia, grief, honoring his life and art, and love for my family.

Wow, where to begin. It’s been a long road my friends. Almost a decade ago I slowly started to feel my energy leave me. I’d lay in bed for hours, nights, days, weekends… thinking that if I just rested more, I’d start feeling better. But I didn’t. I kept getting worse. Soon I had trouble driving, had to hold on to walls to walk, had to start wearing earplugs in public to prevent getting overwhelmed and feeling like my brain was shutting down… and I took what I thought would be a hiatus from music to focus on my health. I didn’t know then that hiatus would be as long as it was. I didn’t know that I would lose my singing voice. I didn’t know that it would take doctors a year to discover I had an autoimmune condition and a chronic virus, that it would take me years to regain my energy, and even more years to rehab my voice back and relearn to sing.

Hello again :)

One of my favorite things about pop music right now is how it pushes the boundaries of content and sound. For the first time that I can remember, pop music is bringing experimentation, innovation, and discovery to the mainstream, along with incredibly vulnerable and honest lyrics. I think a lot of this has to do with the rise of Spotify and other streaming services. With radio, record labels, and brick and mortar music stores no longer being the only gatekeepers to music promotion and acquisition, the landscape of pop music has changed. The result is more interplay between genres, unique sounds and inspirations, and more freedom for artistry. I hear so many artists pushing boundaries, being more honest in their songs, and exploring sonic landscapes that I haven’t heard before, and it’s what gets my eyes wide, my heart pumping, my spirit racing, and my body dancing.

This one is for my hometown :) I’m excited to be back home for my only show in LA this year. It’s at my most favorite of venues, Hotel Cafe. When I first started doing music, playing Hotel Cafe was my dream. Every venue I played, every step I took, had the intention of moving one step closer to that venue. And when I released my first EP (under a different name, before I started going by Rosalie), I was able to make that dream come true. I remember sitting in the green room area, looking at my surroundings like I was still dreaming. The only time I ever felt that kind of surreal feeling was when something really bad had happened - when my dad was first diagnosed with cancer, and it just didn’t feel real. Sitting in that green room, it didn’t feel real either. But this time I was on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Something extraordinarily good had happened.

You guys!!!! I've been siting on this for awhile, but I can finally let everyone know, THAT I'M GOING TO BE ON THE RADIO!! (insert flailing arms here). Lightning 100 here in Nashville to be specific. If you're not familiar, Lightning is a big indie station out here that is so well respected and has such a strong voice and presence. I'm so honored and THRILLED to be able to be in-studio.

You guys! My new site is live. Oh my goodness what a journey it has been. I won't go into it here because it's all spelled out in my bio, but thank you God for bringing me to this point in my life. Thank you God for giving me a second chance at realizing my dream. That you God for the opportunity to sing again, to write, to perform, and to feel the beauty and potency and fullness of living your dream. If you're reading this, thank you to you as well for adding to the richness of my dream.