Ally Cribb Perspective on Now
Finding human connection is the ultimate goal in songwriting and performing. My latest EP - Now - is about sharing the experiences of this intense stage of life moving from late teens into 20s.
There’s a reason so many Hollywood films focus on characters navigating the life-defining transition. It is a coming-of-age time of intense uncertainty in life, relationships and – if you’re me – heartbreak. It’s a powerful moment – when it feels like you have one foot in childhood and one foot in adulthood – that demands to be written about, pondered and shared.
My latest EP -- Now -- was inspired by walking through that portal, leaving behind who I was, beginning to invent who I want to be and learning about the emotional stakes of relationships that shape it all. It’s part diary and part observation about how love behaves, how we let people back into our lives even when we know we shouldn’t for reasons we don’t understand and how it all changes us. I’ve always focused my writing on personal experiences. After struggling with letdowns and heartbreak, I felt these stories deeply. And I thought there must be others out there who might feel the same as me.
The title track captures where I am right now in shaping the direction of my writing. I started writing Now when I was 18 and watched it evolve over the past two years. The song’s narrator is a girl struggling with uncertainty in herself, turbulence in her life, regret about decisions and wistful hope for what might lie ahead. It’s where I am. Now.
