But it’s like, we have so much hard stuff going on every day right now.
So I really wanted to make a record that was like, how do I focus on that? Not that I don’t want to focus on the bad stuff, but it’s like the hard stuff. I was really feeling like, joy and ease and pleasure are such important forms of healing as well, and valid forms of healing and aren’t any less deep than facing your darkest hardship. and then 2020 happened, the pandemic, everything that’s been going on, and I just was starting to write again, and I was like, I don’t have capacity for the same sort of to go into the depths of my hardship in the same way. My relationship with my mom, she has a lot of mental health issues, and it was such an important but very hard record to write, but it was very healing. I wrote a record that I released a couple of years ago called ‘Heart in the Wild’, and it was a record for me about some really tough stuff. Can you tell me more about that songwriting process? I wasn’t sure what to expect, but once I heard those opening lyrics, I was like, “Oh, I’m going to love this.” It literally talks about finding joy and resistance. We also find out what her favorite reality television show is and the answer might just surprise you! Read on to learn more about Moorea Masa.Ĭulturess: I wanted to start off and ask about your most recent release, joyful, which is available to stream right now. In this conversation with Masa, she shares the reality of being an artist as a BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artist while diving deep into how she maintains her mental health as an artist. The Portland-native just released her single, ‘Joyful’, which speaks to the act of pursuing joy as an act of resistance and being more authentic to oneself. For singer-songwriter, Moorea Masa, that statement is just a portion of her ethos. We live in a society where music can be seen as a unifier.
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