growing up in the countryside there wasn’t much to do. i lived on a busy road growing up so as a little kid, i had to stay inside the confides of my home. when i got old enough and my mum trusted me to, i started to go out on my bike with my friends. it was a dream. from being stuck inside ny house, to long roads, big wide landscapes and green fields for miles. it was freedom. it was my childhood. i felt like i could go anywhere. the world was mine… when i made beauty queen, i felt a similar sense of child like wonder. after years of trying to fit in a bracket i thought was mine, i finally decided to push myself, my art and my sonic. i felt so free. when we decided to make this video and figure out the creative for it, i knew exactly where to draw inspiration from. those days spent fixing my bike with my friends, getting our hands dirty and just setting ourselves free. i love this video and i love the people i made it with because they aren’t just my on screen cast, they are my friends and even collaborators. @tommysolemn is one of my closest friends. he always knows how to make me laugh if i’m having a shit day. @jackyjackymusic is someone i make music with all the time. an incredibly special and talented individual that makes the world brighter just by existing. @martinlukebrown - one of my fav people on the planet, an incredible artist & songwriter but also an incredibly empathetic and thoughtful person who inspires me all the time with the softness of his heart! was an absolute honour to make this video. and i hope this is only the beginning of where this bike ride takes us. love u all ! keep enjoying the video and hope it inspires you to reconnect with your younger self :) it helped the hell outta me
BEAUTY QUEEN MUSIC VIDEO IS ALL YOURSSSSSSSSSSS :) special thank you to my very special friends for stepping in and acting alongside me in this. feel so grateful to be able to do what i do !!!
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after what feels like an age, i can finally proudly say my song “beauty queen” is all yours at midnight tonight. i really hope you all like this one. it’s the start of an entirely new era of my music and more importantly, my life. i wrote this song in the hopes that one day someone would come up to me in the street and tell me that this soundtracked one of their happiest moments. i really just want people to feel happy when they hear this one. enjoy & take care of it. love you guys so much! :)
not sure how to start this, so it’s gonna come out probably a bit rambley, which i apologise for in advance, but it’s truly from the heart so here we go… a few years ago as you all probably know, my family and i went through something pretty awful. after it, i threw myself into my work and for a while it was a great distraction. towards the end of 2024, i became irritable, unhappy, angry and i’d gained a bunch of weight that made me feel super insecure and the worst part of all, i just felt directionless. my instinct was to keep going and just push through it, but at some point or another i think i just hit a wall. i could no longer just “work through” my grief. i had to do something about it, so i decided to take a step back from it all; the touring, the public events, the social media and started looking inwards. i was on a slippery slope of over eating, drinking a lot and punishing myself for something that wasn’t my fault. i got into therapy, i got into the gym and most importantly i got into the studio - a place that i had neglected going to out of fear of what i might find out about myself. the result of all of this was something magic. i found my spark again. even sitting here right now, i feel so overcome with emotions. i feel like i am as close to the version of myself that lived before the whole thing happened than ever, i know i will never be the same, but i look at it all now with immense gratitude. now coming back and seeing so many of you still care about me in this insanely fast paced and supposedly low attention spanned world just fills me heart right up, so thank you for sticking around and being patient with me. i can’t wait to share with you what i’ve been doing. beauty queen isn’t far away at all and there is heaps more to come. love you guys so much.
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