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A bedroom pop and dreamy pop track with subtle R&B influences, about the bittersweet reality of unrequited affection: the emotional weight of a classic hallway crush.

I wrote it over the summer, after a personal experience with someone I'd met months before. It was a necessary creative outlet: a way to process and release lingering feelings.

The problem

I wanted to turn a very specific, private moment into something that felt universal, instead of something that reads like a diary entry out loud.

And I only had myself: my own voice for every part.

What I tried

I wrote and recorded rough vocals first, then processed them through AI so they wouldn't sound like my own voice, and layered drums, bass, keyboards, percussion and synth separately in Ableton and Bandlab.

To push the track further from a single-person bedroom recording, I ran different takes through AI voice-over processing so each one would read as a distinct contributing voice.

What I changed

The early stems had every instrument layered in constantly, which flattened the song.

I reshaped the arrangement so instruments drop in and out instead, and adjusted how the AI-processed vocal takes were blended so they read as distinct band members rather than one voice looped on itself.

Why

Making it sound like a full band instead of a solo bedroom recording mattered because it turns a private feeling into something that sounds like it belongs to more people than just me.

Proof, to me, that a personal moment can become a shared one.