'Yours Truly, Nevermore' is a double EP project I put out earlier this year. Initially planning on these songs to be ideas and demos for a much larger third album concept, I chose to scrap the plan entirely, and work on the ideas I personally wanted to pursue at the time for a smaller scale project. This isn't an album, but the combined "story" version of both EPs. These EPs were created as a way to vent some of my emotions about grief post-Wonderful without feeling like I was a burden of some kind to friends, family, and you. It made me feel better to say what I wanted to say in the form of mashups; simple, basic ideas that spoke louder in their messages. I made mashups based on the emptiness of losing my stepdad, feeling lost in life, figuring out who I am as a person, the connections I've made with friends on the internet, feelings about love, loneliness, that disconnect from reality, and the general concept of grief itself. Some of these mashups were made for/about real people in my life. Others were made about general feelings about myself. It's pretty up and down, chaotic in feelings, rather than sample choices. This was done intentionally, as I didn't want to make another mashup album that was meant FOR the people who listen to my mashups. I wanted to make this entirely for ME. I don't intend to entertain. I intend to be honest about myself, with myself. I hope you understand. The title derives from a line from a certain meme song. The line is as follows: "Sincerely, yours truly, and forevermore." This line inspired the concept of the EP, alongside the famous poem by Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven. The idea of this being a letter, and reflection on what has been, the grief of what is, and the worry of what will be, it really spoke to me. And since a big underlying theme on this is love, and my feelings of love, both platonic and romantic, really drew me in to the titles of Yours Truly and Nevemore. Since this was made with intention to be my last major solo project of the year, this felt like a good way to sign off. I personally feel like I'm entering a transformative period of my life. As I've discovered my gender identity, meeting new amazing people that I hope to grow closer with, and the uncertainty of the future, I feel like I'm constantly learning and evolving as I go on. And with the advent of new forms of content opening up for me in the very near future, this feels like a great place to end the Audacity era of himynameisshan. I've been getting more burnt out and disillusioned with the mashup scene as of late. While I still love mashups, I only really find myself gravitating towards my own community, The Mashpit. I don't find other circles in the scene to be all that interesting or welcoming, in my opinion. And understanding more about it all, and just knowing how it all works, I've felt less incline to keep up with everyone, and more inclined to press the big ol' pause button on this. I put a lot of myself into everything I do, and when I feel like that's at risk, where I can't entirely be myself, I need to separate myself from it for a while. I'll do some small things here and there, and the channel isn't going to go dark at all. But this channel will be much less active, and this will be the last major mashup release from me for a while. Thanks for letting me vent for a bit. I'm thankful for all the support in the last almost two years of this channel. I hope you'll follow me on my other, many journeys in the future. Otherwise, I'll see you on the otherside. --- Credit to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTnXxEMzlvGCJ5MfLAtm6ag for additional engineering on 'Sunbathe'. https://linktr.ee/TCMusicYT Credit to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe_7qwkH_C3dLDx_AuzYp8Q for the initial idea for '(The Fear Of) Staying'. https://hennytai.carrd.co/ Credit to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK6VvknaC5JBzby_ukEn8NQ for inspiration on 'Bloom'. https://linktr.ee/eliasontwitch Credit to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaJy4lvkxXGAWiiUcq9e1g for the inspiration for this project. null Credit to the original artists and creators of the samples used. This project is dedicated to my stepdad. I miss you, and I love you. Thanks to Mom, Father #2, Dawson Trey, Kai, Adder, Mya, The Mashpit, Jason, Alec, Eli, Henny, Nellie, Vixoria, Emma, and you. Thank you. --- YOURS TRULY EP: https://hmnis.bandcamp.com/album/yours-truly-ep NEVERMORE EP: https://hmnis.bandcamp.com/album/nevermore-ep --- SIDE A 00:00 End 02:50 if i wasn't unwell 06:15 fake laughter 08:39 (The Fear Of) Staying 10:45 Sunbathe SIDE B 14:35 idontwannabemeanymore. 17:24 Bloom 20:08 You Don't Love Her 23:41 POSTMORTEM 27:22 "I Would Like Us To Be Friends!" 28:34 And The World Goes On... --- WEBSITE: https://amorettaofficial.carrd.co/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/amoretta_tv/ DONATIONS: https://ko-fi.com/amorettaofficial/ BANDCAMP: https://hmnis.bandcamp.com/ CLONE HERO/YARG: https://bit.ly/hmnisCHARTS --- #mashup #mashupalbum #hmnis #himynameisshan