New York, NY (Top40 Charts) "These songs represent a journey of realizing who I am, and that I'm done struggling to appease people," shares singer-songwriter Ellie Irwin. The Central Pennsylvania-based acoustic-pop artist is seeding the way to a powerfully transformative coming of age project through a series of singles. "These songs have helped me reconnect with who I am, and they've also helped me realize I don't need to depend on others for my self-worth. I'm the same person since writing them, but I've evolved. I hope my growing pains here can enlighten and comfort others." Today, Ellie shares the exhilarating single, Green Houses.
Ellie commenced this song cycle summer of 2020 when she found herself reexamining her life and her personal connections as a high school student. "I'm surrounded by teenagers, and my songs are all pretty much a testimony to that," she details. "They are me trying to figure out life and the emotional rollercoaster it sometimes is as a young person in this world."
Each song entry represents a facet of Ellie's path to liberating self-knowledge and confidence. Through these personal revelations, and her exhilarating acoustic-pop sensibility, Ellie shares struggles, profound realizations, and empowering decisions. Her songs start on the ukulele or the piano, and, from there, they are tastefully embellished with elegantly essential production touches. Luke Wood and Gregg Montante contributed guitar and Bob McCutcheon produced the sessions.
About the song, Irwin comments: "I wrote "Green Houses" out of frustration. I wanted to paint my perspective of the world and its twisted relationship with greed, wealth, and money.
Being 18 and hungry for change is exhausting. Sometimes, as a young person, I feel like my ideas and perspective of the world is diminished. I can still have valid thoughts and sophisticated conversations even though I was born the year "
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Avril Lavigne was number 1. That's what my first verse is about. The rest of the song is about how focused the world can be sometimes on money and material things, and personally, I think that's broken. We are so much more than a stock market, or a yearly salary. If we believe that that is where our worth ends, then we are stuck in a continuous cycle where we "live to take it to the bank".
I couldn't end the song with doom & gloom. In my writing, I took a turn to match the upbeat guitar and melody, and allowed for a glimmer of hope. We aren't built for money, we are built for light. This song was written to communicate the importance and value of love and the human connection."
