I remember when I was a teenager I imagined my twenties would be fabulous. I saw myself enjoying more independence and having a string of torrid affairs, but in reality I just spent the decade stressing out that I didn’t have everything figured out. Camille Trail gives voice to the angst so many of experience with her latest single “twenties.”
“I was really good when I wrote ‘Got To Get To Know You’ but with ‘twenties’ I was so tired, working the day job to pay the bills and writing straight afterward, and I was burning the candle at both ends,” Camille admitted. “It was this moment where I was going back and forth of being okay and not being okay and wondering how long am I going to be like this? And everything came crashing down at once. I felt like I had my quarter life crisis.”
“I wanted it to build up quickly and have this chaotic energy about it, so you didn’t really know what was happening, like it came out of nowhere. Because that’s what was going on in my head,” Camille says of the song she finished on the day she hit the studio.
“There’s the panicky heartbeat drums and that racing feeling, hot flushes, thoughts going crazy, and then you have that breaking point where everything stops and it’s like, okay, this is what it is, so how am I going to deal with this. I hadn’t completely lost my mind. It’s just that all these things hit me at once and I was a little bit sad for a moment. And it’s ok that I felt sad.”
Amen. Things should look up for Camille as she’s accepted an invitation to play at Ireland’s Your Roots Are Showing folk conference next year. It sounds like 2024 might be a big one for this Aussie talent.
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