Oct 27, 2026 · 41 min · 11 segments
Musician Gretta Ray was just 18 years old when she shot to national fame after winning the coveted Triple J Unearthed High competition in 2016 with her…
Gretta RayGuest
Maggie ZhouHost
Jasmine WallisHost
And now Heart Song is you kind of processing everything that you've been through over the past few years.
It's an album about grief, but in your kind of announcement post, you wrote a lot about loss.
I'm going to walk you through what is an analogy that my, oh my gosh, I'm like making sure I get that one time I said, I think this was an analogy from my mom.
Either way, like my parents told me about this analogy that I have been using, which was basically in that time.
It's like, if you need to be kind of planted in life, you've got your four tent pegs and they are where you live, your job, your relationship and your health.
And my experience throughout that time was like, sometimes also the idea is, I guess, if one tent peg comes up, the tent can kind of stay.
And so when I talk about loss on the album, that is kind of what I'm referring to.
And what was the last one? What was the last thing I lost? Oh, and of course, the entire direction that my career had been heading in.
And there was actually so much grief surrounding that in the sense that music had been such a gigantic part of my happiness and always will be.
And I think I had attached maybe the trajectory of my career and the idea that I had about what the next couple of years would look like in my head in the world of the pop thing and the kind of shows that I was playing and where I would be living, I had really gotten this idea of how things were going to keep going.
And now Heart Song is you kind of processing everything that you've been through over the past few years.
It's an album about grief, but in your kind of announcement post, you wrote a lot about loss.
I'm going to walk you through what is an analogy that my, oh my gosh, I'm like making sure I get that one time I said, I think this was an analogy from my mom.
Either way, like my parents told me about this analogy that I have been using, which was basically in that time.
It's like, if you need to be kind of planted in life, you've got your four tent pegs and they are where you live, your job, your relationship and your health.
And my experience throughout that time was like, sometimes also the idea is, I guess, if one tent peg comes up, the tent can kind of stay.
And so when I talk about loss on the album, that is kind of what I'm referring to.
And what was the last one? What was the last thing I lost? Oh, and of course, the entire direction that my career had been heading in.
And there was actually so much grief surrounding that in the sense that music had been such a gigantic part of my happiness and always will be.
And I think I had attached maybe the trajectory of my career and the idea that I had about what the next couple of years would look like in my head in the world of the pop thing and the kind of shows that I was playing and where I would be living, I had really gotten this idea of how things were going to keep going.
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