My latest track just released, you can listen to it on most streaming platforms. I had a lot of fun singing this one. It gave me old Paramore vibes.
This song like many others was written for my nieces doll’s band. Hope you like it!
More music comes out on Sunday (My Birthday!) so please check it out, especially the EP with songs from Vermin.
Since it’s my birthday this month, I’ve got a lot of music scheduled to release. Most of these are songs that were written either last year, or during the middle of the pandemic.
Love Song is the newest track coming out after my cover of Edge of Seventeen, and T-Rex in a Toddlers Body. The songs releasing later this month are titled The Last Song (March 23rd), and Loneliness (March 26th). I will also be releasing an EP on March 26th, titled Songs from Vermin which features 5 songs from the novel series along with a bonus alternative version of one of the songs.
The Last Song and Loneliness, are both songs written based off and set in the world of my nieces dolls. Although they might not sound like it. I’d like to post a lyric video for each of them, and am hoping to have one ready to release for the same week of their release, but we’ll see. I just finished recording for a series, and have some other projects on the go here, so hopefully I can get something put together.
Loneliness is the most upbeat out of the tracks. I had a lot of fun recording that one. Hopefully you’ll like it! I get that one stuck in my head a lot.
As promised, yesterday the EP Songs from Vermin released onto streaming platforms, along with the single Loneliness. I had so much fun recording all of…
My latest track just released, you can listen to it on most streaming platforms. I had a lot of fun singing this one. It gave…
I recorded this way back and finally decided to release it since it’s my birthday month. I actually recorded two versions of this song, one…
I finally did my first book signing this past weekend, and it was so much fun. Releasing a novel during the pandemic was weird. I’m…
I’ve been writing the third book in the Vermin series by hand, which has honestly been cathartic. I don’t know why I stopped drafting novels…
Vermin has received another wonderful review! Fantasy based stories aren’t usually my forte, especially ones that are part of series which are still unwritten/ released…
The Chain is now available to listen to on streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer! Thanks for listening.
You can also listen to The Chain on YouTube.
Since it’s my birthday this month, I’ve got a lot of music scheduled to release. Most of these are songs that were written either last…
It’s officially December, which means that NaNoWriMo22 has come to an end. I still have a lot to do for this novel, however it’s been…
I posted the poem for Glitter back in 2020. I’d also recorded myself singing it while playing guitar in my studio after a recording session…
I posted the poem for Glitter back in 2020. I’d also recorded myself singing it while playing guitar in my studio after a recording session but never shared it…until now!
So, here is Glitter:
Ardin Patterson, Sept. 1st, 2020.
I once cut my arm
Just so I could breath
Cause my lungs were filled right up
With something heavy
And it made me sick
I thought I might throw up
I didn’t but I wish I had
I didn’t but I wish I never lied
I didn’t but I wish I had
I didn’t but I wish I wouldn’t smile.
Dodo, dododo, laladi, dada (x2)
I wrote it in my own blood
The letters of my name
Cause my reflection was all screwed up
I didn’t look the same.
Inside me rose a panic
It fluttered, it crept in deep.
Dug a hole inside my body
Where my heart used to beat.
Dodo, dododo, laladi, dada (x2)
Let me out
Hear me crying
On the bedroom floor
Little fears have eaten me alive
From the inside
Like an apple devoured by worms.
Here I am broken
Needing someone to hold me up
But I chased them
With fire
Said I had it all figured out.
Dodo, dododo, laladi, dada (x2)
The Chain is now available to listen to on streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer! Thanks for listening. You can also listen…
Lyrics Within this swamp land The mist it hovers It creates circles Around your brothers It lingers softly Beneath your feet It looms and it…
As promised, I’ve released new music. I tend to sit on songs for months (sometimes longer) before releasing them. Along with I Lost My Head,…
👽 I’ve been trying to upload a little more consistently. I originally did a vocal cover of The Chain to a piano track, but decided to teach myself to play an acoustic version on guitar (my keyboards too big for my studio and my skills are pretty rusty).
I absolutely love this song. I haven’t heard a version I dislike actually. My top two covers of it would definitely have to be the one by Three Days Grace and the one by Evanescence. The each created slightly different moods while still staying true to the original by Fleetwood Mac. Plus these were two of my favourite bands growing up!
One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small, And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all. Go ask Alice When she's ten feet tall. And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you're going to fall, Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar Has given you the call. Call Alice When she was just small. When the men on the chessboard Get up and tell you where to go And you've just had some kind of mushroom And your mind is moving low. Go ask Alice I think she'll know. When logic and proportion Have fallen sloppy dead, And the White Knight is talking backwards And the Red Queen's "off with her head!" Remember what the dormouse said: "Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head"
It’ official, Heart is on Spotify! Thank you everyone for your kindness and encouragement with this project. It means so much to me.
Also a big thank you to my sister for providing the artwork for this as well!
Heart is available to listen to on Youtube and Instagram! The artwork for this project was created by my lovely sister @nuggiedraws. You can find her on Instagram!
There are three songs in total: Heart, Artist and Juliet’s Song.
I wrote Heart and Juliet’s Song back when I was in the 10th Grade.
I wrote Juliet’s Song for an animated project I made for my English class at the time. Initially it was played on the piano and yes, it is based on the play Romeo and Juliet. I re-recorded and used the song again in university for one of my Shakespeare course finals…and then decided to return to it again to create an acoustic version on the guitar.
Heart, the title track I wrote the same year. If I’m being honest, it isn’t the most emo song I’ve ever written. It’s pretty sad though. It was one of the first songs I wrote with my guitar. The song kept resurfacing over the years at different points in my life. At times I wish the song were longer, but at the same time I don’t think it needs to be. It always just felt right. It’s definitely the most personal song I’ve released. I actually shared the song when I entered the Zepeto Idol competition on Instagram a while back.
Artist I wrote initially as a poem this year and ended up putting music to it on a whim. I actually wrote the song while procrastinating a chapter edit for my debut. Whenever I get stuck on a scene, I try writing something else, like a poem to inspire me. In this case it worked but then I ended up with this recording hanging out on my laptop…and then, I decided that for once I’d actually share the music I’d written versus a cover song.
I hope you enjoy listening to Heart and that you’ll check out @nuggiedraws (I have her gif on my blogs homepage! Cute right?)
Ardin Patterson 