Natalie Roers has been described as a "positive badass".
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Natalie Roers has been described as a "positive badass".
Artist:
Natalie Roers
Place:
Brussels
Date:
Monday, 17. January 2022
"Sometimes Home" is one of the songs off her debut e p, Dollhouse, OUT NOW on Spotify, Apple, iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, and more....
Natalie, can you tell Belgiem about the stories on this album.
Okay, so there are four songs. The first is I Remember When a poppy, fun, sweet song that is about a boy I had a huge crush on as a teen. The kind of crush where you think of nothing but them from the moment you wake until you sleep. I would go completely mute around him. Back then there was no social media or keyboard to hide behind, so I never got to tell him how I felt. Well, I had lunch with him randomly while working on a voice acting job in Charleston at the start of the pandemic. Hadn't seen him since I was a teen! Although he's still just as adorable as ever, those young girl feelings are long gone. I couldn't stop smiling to myself about it, though, and came home and wrote all about it.
The second song is the most personal and the one you'll see in my music video. Sometimes Home is about a failed adoption. My husband and I were a foster-to-adopt family here in Columbia for seven years. Many times adoption works out wonderfully, but many times it doesn't (for more reasons that one could ever even imagine) and it's just a super painful experience for the children, most importantly, but also for the adults. It's so painful for me still that the vocals you hear on that are the scratch vocals. We never recorded finals because I can't get through that slower arrangement yet without crying. When you hear me sing this live it's a faster version.
The third song is a power ballad called Open the Door. That song is about how hard it is to get people to take you seriously as a woman in entertainment/anything. It's better in recent years, but damn has it been a struggle. Making your own content is one way to become smarter, stronger, and more powerful and open those doors for yourself instead of waiting on someone else to open them for you-- that's what that song is about.
House of Dolls is my final song. What you hear on the EP is actually my teacher, Brian Conner, and I live at Freeway music one night. That song was an old poem I had about taking a trip back home and the magic of my childhood being lost. This song inspired the title of the album. A lot of things lost their magic for me over the pandemic like dolls in a dollhouse lose their magic as you get older. Not to get all Debbie Downer on ya! I had a lot of positives and new magic made in other areas over the worst of the pandemic, too-- like this EP! I think the EP takes you on that grieving/healing journey I went on: it was funny and weird at first, then really fucking low, then I got empowered, and finally the catharsis. That's why I picked the songs I did. They aligned with my truth and my journey during the past year and a half.