Music and Art can change the world. It brings out emotion. It can help in the healing process, dismantling walls and boundaries, creating reconciliation, and influencing education. Around the world, music and the arts are being used as a vehicle for social change - bringing communities together, creating culture, giving life, stiring emotions, and most of all, giving hope when the world is hurting.
“Tides” is about anxiety, and how a lot of progress, especially when relating to mental health, isn’t linear.
You can be doing ok, seemingly getting better every day, then have a string of rough days in a row without any warning or apparent reason.
Every time I hear the song “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” I’m instantly back in my mom’s vehicle driving to my boyfriend’s billet’s house. He played hockey in the small town and this was a burnt CD I had in her car.
I was a top student. Always on the Dean’s list, always over-achieving, always over-delivering. Then I’d go home at night and draw. Obsessively. A completely different person than I was during the day at school. Silently screaming.
