Hannah Bethel grew up with music.
Whether it was the sounds of artists like James Taylor and Tom Petty floating out of the garage her dad worked in, or Madonna and Michael Jackson screaming at her mom’s aerobics class in the basement, the Michigan native was surrounded. of some of the greatest voices of our time.
And soon, she decided to be one of those voices.
So she moved to Nashville.
Today, Bethel is enjoying the success of their latest EP Until the sun comes back, flush with the songs she had worked hard on before the pandemic shut everything down.
“This collection of songs was about a really tough season in my life where I was in the middle of a major transition,” she says of the project that serves as her first new music since 2020. “I was going through a breakup and I was truly grieving and reassessed,” she adds with a pause. “So it’s kind of a sad record.”
But with sadness often comes beauty, and that’s what Bethel discovered when she started tracking the project in November 2020, specifically in the making of her current single “Godspeed, Los Angeles.”
“I’m really, really proud of how this one turned out,” says Bethel, who moved to Nashville in 2008. victim instead of just admitting that you just weren’t a good fit. This song basically allowed me to send love to that person and honor their journey.
Indeed, most cuts on Until the sun comes back end up being a sort of therapy session, in which the listener can immerse themselves in each lyric and find their own story waiting for them.
“Working on this project was a turning point for me as a songwriter, because I found the magic of writing without being attached to anyone’s expectations of what I was creating,” says Bethel. “It really opened a key for me in all my future writing from then on.”
Of course, now that the time has passed since Bethel first put her feelings on paper, she finds herself listening to the songs of Until the sun comes back a little differently.
“It really feels like a different life,” she explains. “I have grown and evolved so much since this experience. At the same time, these songs always feel good to me and always feel like an accurate representation of those emotions and that experience. That’s what’s amazing about songs. They are like little snapshots of what is happening in the heart.
And sometimes that heart still hurts.
“The collective trauma that every single person around the world has gone through over the past two years cannot be understated,” she says quietly. “It’s going to take time to heal and get through this. Many of us try to drown out that grief and go back to what was normal before that. But I think the point is that we have all been irrevocably changed.
And the sun will be go up again.
“Trust the cycle,” concludes Bethel, who also works as a certified Reike and hypnotherapy practitioner. “You don’t spend all night worrying about the sun coming back because you know it will come back. Instead, you’re just enjoying the night. And then the sun comes back.
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