I asked people to let go of their video memories, they sent them to my Tumblr inbox and this is what we've made. Thank you to everyone who submitted footage for this video and for letting go 🫶 @music
Australian singer-songwriter Angie McMahon sat down to talk through her upcoming album, dream collaborators, advice for those starting out in the music industry and more. Check it out.
Listen to Angie's latest single, "Fireball Whiskey" and check out the lyric video for "Letting Go" which features footage from the Tumblr community 🫶
I tend to ask questions as I listen to podcasts, as though speaking with the hosts. So often, they answer them, (undoubtedly reinforcing the asking, the seeking). I don’t always agree – it’s a poor thing indeed to inhale everyone’s experiences as fact – but a few overwhelming truths have settled into place. Chief among these are the shared values of consistency, self-talk, and mantras. With the middle of these three, it seems reliably true that our inner voices tend towards the negative, shaped by experiences and DNA alike, thusly requiring the other two – we must establish internal mantras and use them with consistency.
For me, mantras are borrowed things, taken from songs and poetry. Since mid-autumn, I’ve borrowed heavily from Angie McMahon’s * Light, Dark, Light Again*, pulling phrases from almost each song.
“I’m gonna love every inch of this body / the limbs that are writing each day of this story” – “Saturn Returning”
“Love you deep and love for life” [repeated, to the self, to the other] – “Fireball Whiskey”
“It’s okay, it’s okay / make mistake, make mistakes” – “Letting Go”
“I’m going headlong in” – “Divine Fault Line”
“I am wild, I am hopin’ / I am wide awake now I’ve been shaken open” – “Explodin”
“I’m a living breathing earthling / I am already enough, I am already enough, I am already enough” – “I Am Already Enough”
“It's in the trying” – “Serotonin”
“You can get back up again” – “Staying Down Low”
“Don’t be harsh babe, don’t be / don’t be harsh babe, don’t be” – “Music’s Coming In”
Light, dark, light again / light, dark, light again” – “Making It Through”
Throughout these songs, which thunder with revelation and release, I keep finding the big wisdoms of little moments. Angie acknowledges that the essential rhythm to living is learning how to get started, keep going, get started again, and keep going yet again and again. This is the basis of not just survival, but of living itself – here is where we can find and further establish something-like-purpose. Finding that rhythm, however we can, is what allows us to establish who we are and how we want to be instead of who we’re made to be.
I'm putting down the habit
That habit of looking back on all of it and wishing I had done better
Oh I just wanna feel it
Feel that I like who I’m becoming and feel alright in the quiet
I feel like only my Australian followers will know who this is but I just did lights for Angie McMahon! Ahh I can’t believe that I get to work with such amazing artists now that I love
"Baby, I forgive ya
Angel in the mirror
Here we are now
That you quit being a quitter
For nothing more
And nothing bigger
Than letting this jaw go loose
For the flow of the river, the river"