about emma rose browne
I’m a songwriter, musician, photographer, filmmaker, and artist based in Portland, Oregon. I front harmony-driven Pool Boys, named one of Portland’s Best New Bands by Willamette Week. Pure Sky Media is my production company, which specializes in storytelling for organizations in the climate change mitigation space. In various mediums, my art playfully centers around ideas of self-love and growth, human connection, and analysis of the way the world functions.
about advice songs
advice songs is a songwriting project and musical toolkit. I started writing these songs with only myself in mind as both performer and audience. I’ve learned so many lessons in my life through self reflection, therapy, readings, and conversations with friends, but I often have a hard time calling upon those lessons when I’m in emotionally challenging moments. I wrote these advice songs as quick and easy ways to remember my own strategies when I need them the most, to care for myself and internalize what I want to know more thoroughly.
Eventually, they started to bubble up when having conversations with friends about difficult times in their own lives. I started to wonder if they might be a helpful toolkit for other people. If maybe these hyper personal little songs might connect my soul to someone else’s who felt the same rough time. So, I decided to write accompanying essays for each song, in order to more fully explain the stories, strategies, and successes behind the lyrics. I hope they’ll be a helpful toolkit for you or for a friend.
Read more about advice songs on Substack.
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