“My Favourite Half” was initially written by up-and-coming artist Daniel Spriggs, who had been connecting with Grace as a fellow punk artist within the faith-based sphere. He introduced the observe to Grace with the sense that it was divinely intentioned to be hers.
“Daniel had reached out to me about simply choosing my mind on what it is wish to be in pop-punk within the Christian music scene,” Grace recollects. “A pair months later, he texts me and asks me, ‘Hey, can I ship you a tune concept that I’ve for you? I feel it is speculated to be yours.'”
Grace listened to the demo, discovering a virtually full tune Daniel had written (with assist of a observe supplied by Deniss Pridans). She was captivated by his artistic imaginative and prescient and functionality. The 2 completed cowriting long-distance, and “My Favourite Half” was born.
“It is a kind of songs that demanded to be part of this world. And He handed it to me,” Grace shares.
The lyrics for this hovering punk banger are immensely private for Daniel, who supplied the observe to Grace as an act of deep belief.
“I grew up in a tradition that glorified despair and noticed suicide as one thing nearly noble,” Daniel admits. “I got here from a highschool expertise that was very depressive, very self-deprecating. I used to be residing in a depressed mindset. Flash ahead to now, taking part in with my 2-year-old daughter, seeing her snicker, having a household. That is the place I received the road: ‘In the event you go now, you will miss my favourite half.'”
He continues, “‘My Favourite Half’ is what I really feel like God would say to youthful me. If my life had ended as a youngster, I might’ve missed blessings past my comprehension. I need to inform any younger particular person not simply that it will get higher however that the story God has written for you, the fruition of that story, goes to be so good for you.”
It is an concept that deeply resonates with Grace, who has been open about her lifelong journey with despair, anxiousness and PTSD.
“I knew instantly after I heard this tune that it was going to save lots of somebody’s life,” the singer says frankly. “I used to be singing my songs on tour to those children and pondering, ‘Man, if I would not have stayed, I would miss this half. I would miss God’s favourite a part of utilizing me.'”
Producer Deniss Pridans rounded out each the observe’s manufacturing and guitar line. Collectively, the musicians created a determinedly, tenderly hopeful sound that makes use of rock riffs and forthright melodies to brush listeners from their private lows into the hope of what’s to come back. The result’s a suicide prevention tune in contrast to any which have preceded it. Fairly than exploring the sorrow, the tune offers substance to optimism grounded in religion.
“I really feel like plenty of songs about psychological well being are about somebody’s inside battle. However that is speaking on to the listeners,” Grace provides earnestly. “In the event you die tomorrow, should you go? The quantity of issues you are going to miss, the quantity of issues that God hasn’t completed in your life but that He can! I feel this tune goes to be actually impactful as a result of it talks on to suicide and says, ‘Do not go.'”
“My Favourite Half” is the primary new music following Grace Graber’s debut album The Breakthrough. Sonically, it squarely positions her within the punk rock style, holding its personal musically with influences like Inexperienced Day, Fall Out Boy and MGK. The observe additionally follows “HEART2HEART” by Daniel Spriggs, who’s firmly establishing himself as a rising voice to hearken to.
Get “My Favourite Half” at https://slinky.to/MyFavoritePart. For extra from Grace Graber, go to https://linktr.ee/gracegrabermusic. You’ll be able to study extra about Daniel Spriggs at https://linktr.ee/danielkspriggs.
