Music. Movies. TV. Theatre. Miella turns crush into chic melody
TOWNSVILLE teen triple-threat Miella Sartori is continuing to prove her potential in the next generation of local stars, debuting her brandnew single today.
In To Whom It May Concern, the 17-year-old opens up about the gripping anxiety of a crush.
“The song is about the feeling you get when you really like someone, but get so nervous around them that you can’t talk to them,” Miella said.
“I feel that a lot of teenagers especially feel this when they have feelings for or a crush on someone, and I have experienced that quite a lot. It kind of explains why I act the way I do around people I like.
“I wrote it down and what I found was it wasn’t just the one person that made me feel like this, it was every single person I’ve liked. That’s when I came up with the title, To Whom It May Concern, to tell people it’s more than one person and explaining that that’s how I act with everyone. So I jotted that down, and it flowed on from there. I pretty much explained it to the page, the paper wrote itself and it came together really quickly.”
Miella wrote the lyrics and recorded a simple demo in her home recording studio and, with the help of The Voice Singing School’s Tyrone Osmond, sent the song to Brisbane’s Airlock Studios.
“They said they’d love to help us out, so I ended up travelling down to Brisbane and recording there, it was really cool,” she said.
“It was amazing, especially being in such a professional environment with people who are actually working in the industry. It was really inspiring and such a great environment to be in.”
Miella said she was thrilled to be releasing the song she’d been working on for some time.
“I am a little nervous, I think all artists get a little nervous when they’re releasing something that’s really personal to them, but I’m really excited,” she said.
“This song took quite a while to work on – I went through quite a few different versions to get the right style and right words that I thought suited properly.”
To Whom It May Concern follows on from Miella’s debut single Real Love, released last year.
“With my first song, I wrote it when I was 12 so it definitely shows where my mind and maturity was at that time,” she said.
“Now that I’m 17 it’s progressed to be a lot more mature, not even just lyric-wise but music-wise. Real Love was actually all synthesised instruments, so a lot of them were electronic, but with this new song it’s all real, authentic instruments recorded in an authentic jazz style, and that was what I was really aiming for. That highlights the meaning and authenticity of the song as well.
“I didn’t really want to contradict having such a meaningful song with a fake and synthesised sound.”
The Year 11 student said her upcoming school holidays would be spent performing shows around Townsville, hitting the books writing new material and practising her piano, guitar and new-found percussion skills.
“I would love to perform it (the new single) on stage, that would be amazing. I would love to do it with a live band, that would be even cooler,” she said.
“I’m dabbling in a bit of everything (instrument-wise) and I’m finding it really fun, I’m really enjoying it.”
>>Check out To Whom It May Concern on major download and streaming platforms from today.