Monica Lynne Chase Perspective on Broken Mirror
Ok. Who am I I. I fee; like sometimes I still don't really know. I mean, I'm an artist, writer, and singer. I'm a mom and a friend and a lover? I'm a survivor of childhood trauma, battered relationships, and cancer. Shit I'm a lot of things. I used to say "I am an enigma" I'm definately someone who has seen a lot of crazy shit and lived through a bunch of different lifes and deaths. I'm a lifelong friend but if you cross me you are dead to me. I' hard but am one of the most caring and genuine humans to walk the earth. I'm still figuring it out.
So, I usually hate explaining the lyrics to songs because I feel like music is something differnt to differnt people. But this one, "Broken Mirror" I wrote this during the Covid 19 shutdown. I had been a waitress/bartender like my whole life and was becoming sort of destitute and was running out of money trying to figure out what I was going to do. I applied for a job with the post office...something I would have never thought about doing if it hadn't been for the circumstances, and I got a job as "mail carrier" Crazy right. I became a mail lady for like a year. I would get up at 5am and get dressed in postal uniform blue and look at myself in the mirror, it had this little crack in it at the bottom, and I would stare at myself and think, "Who the fuck are you?"
I was very numb during the shutdown. I didn't know what the world ws going to be like in the future and I was one of the people who worked everyday during the crisis, delivering mail and packages to a city in utter kaos. People were dying everyday and others wouldn't leave the house. Yet I was out there everyday, in the snow, sleet, hail, rain, and wind delivering cases of wter, toilet paper, and mail. It was very surreal and when I looked in the mirror I didn't see ME I say the MAIL LADY, like a character in a book.
Shoot, my earliest memories are always around music. I'ts like part of my DNA. As a super young child my Great Grandma would play the organ and teach me to sing like Shirley Temple..."Good Ship Lolipop and How Much Is Tht Dogie In The Window" When we went to my Grandma Chase's house my Uncle Martin would be playing guitar or one of my Aunt's would be listening to a record. I was raised in church from birth too so...hymns and bible songs are probably my earliest memory.
I always wanted to be a writer rf an artist. I never wanted to be a singer. It's weird. I love to sing, it's my absolute favorite thing to do, but I feel like when I was younger, I was TOLD I HAD to sing. It became a thing I hated if I was told to. It wasn't until I was around 30 years old that i started having fun singing.
It's always hard for me to pick a genre. And I hate that I have to. I've contemplated using OTHER. I usually ask my friends to listen to it and tell me. I definitely think it's INDIE but could be Singer-Songwriter, Melancholy, Soft Rock, maybe evern Modern Country? It's just music you know. Songs from my heart. I hate putting my art into a box and trying to sell it as just one thing, because it's not. It's art. It's music. It's a vibe.
