FROM ME TO YOU - on my album, "Fever Dream" by Amy Peters
This album started in the shower.
I was in my downtown Nashville apartment, doing the ol’ lather, rinse and repeat, when a string of lyrics popped into my head: I know you’ll tell me whatever I want to hear. Nothing right, nothing real. It was so simple, but it felt like the beginning of something. Something special.
I wrote the framework of “Salt” that night, which would go on to become the lead single from my very first album, Fever Dream. This project has been the only constant in my life for the past year and a half, and I can’t believe it is finally out in the world! I’ve spent so much time dancing in my kitchen to “Don’t Care”, crying in my car to “Supernatural”, and thinking about the rings in “Preoccupied”. (Listen to the record and you’ll get it.)
In releasing this album, I’m not just putting music out into the world—I’m releasing stale feelings. Saying goodbye to a version of myself that no longer exists. Shedding my skin. There’s a lot of my unhealthy habits woven into these songs; a lot of obstacles had to be overcome in order for me to reach this level of vulnerability. Three major haircuts, two loves lost, and one identity crisis later, I’ve finally arrived at a place where I’m okay with being uncomfortable. I’m okay with nursing the growing pains. Because they remind me that I am really growing.
So when you listen to this record, know that you’re listening to my heartache in its primitive form. I used my pen to write my way out—to go from feeling tired, lost and helpless (“Did I Make It Up?”) to being ready to get lost in someone new (“Forest”). And all of that time in between taught me so many valuable things. My hope is that, no matter how you’re feeling right now, you can find a piece of this record that makes you feel understood. And if nothing else, I hope it makes you dance.
In honor of the album that started in the shower, let’s wash the slate clean. Happy listening!
- Amy