![]() ![]() ![]() “I had clocked by that I didn’t write that song because I believed anything I was saying. ![]() On ‘Learning You’ (written in July 2019 but recorded in January 2020), the original hook of “ forever learning you and what a privilege it is to” became “ forever learning you gives me something to hold on to”, a small change that for Ray was significant. Ray made subtle lyrical changes to better reflect her current thoughts on that period in her life. With songs written as early as 2017, and the bulk in mid-2019, by the time of recording in December that year rolled around, some needed readjusting. “It’s just the sense of like, dammit, we really wanted this to go on forever… and then it just didn’t work and it kept hurting. “I think that right there, this emotion, is very within ‘Learning You’ in particular,” says Ray. It’s clocked over 13million streams on Spotify alone to date. Out this Friday, ‘Begin To Look Around’ is itself the culmination of a more than five-year journey that began with the release of Ray’s debut EP ‘Elsewhere’, before she put out the song song ‘Drive’ – a track that won her triple j Unearthed High and the prestigious Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition. “In hindsight, you know, maybe having released all this music sooner would have meant that I spoke about things differently.” That’s COVID being COVID,” says the 23-year-old Melburnian during NME’s interview in Brunswick East, just down the road from where she grew up and went to school. “The reality is I wrote the majority of this album in 2019 and it’s 2021 now. Which for a young musician like Gretta Ray, going through a formative period of self-discovery, complicates talking about her debut album ‘Begin To Look Around’. It has left many musicians, whose schedules have been hit by delay after delay, releasing work that’s now several years old. For many of us, the pandemic’s months of intermittent lockdowns have meant hours of self-reflection: time to consider who we were, and who we’ve become. ![]()
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