“When You’re Everyone, Then You’re No One”: Brother Bird Reckons with People-Pleasing, Self-Erasure, & Survival on “Chameleon,” a Spellbinding Indie Folk Reverie (
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Brother Bird gives people-pleasing a room, a mirror, and a voice on “Chameleon,” a spellbinding indie folk reverie that channels shame, survival, and self-recognition into a soul-stirring first glimpse of her next chapter. In conversation with Atwood Magazine, Nashville singer/songwriter Caroline Glaser unpacks the freedom of writing through characters, the catharsis of this new era, and the long, complicated work of learning to conform a little less.
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“My songs are the truest, most raw extension of myself. I really strive for authenticity in all facets of my life, but especially there. It’s been a steady mirror – whether I’m willing to look at it or not.”
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“I started coming up with little characters each day as a writing exercise, then making up songs from their perspective. It always ended up being a good mix of fact and fiction…allowing me to say the ugly thing without fully claiming it as my own. ‘Chameleon’ leans into the shape-shifter / people- pleaser in me.”
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“People-pleasing has been my default setting for as long as I can remember, and I’ve always felt a tremendous amount of shame around that. I’m actively in therapy working to combat it. Both the shape-shifting and the shame around it. It’s tricky, though… we all want to be liked.”
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