Cara McDonald: Tiny Beautiful Things was born during the Covid-19 pandemic. How did that shape the songs you wrote?
May Erlewine: When things shut down, I decided not to stop working. I did stop touring, but I decided to keep creating as much as I could. I was writing these songs and thinking about what I was able to do: Make a record.
I had a couple songs but had also been writing a lot in January after the shutdown; I was playing music and doing live streams every Monday. I started looking at this collection of songs and realized they were focusing on love and human connection in all its iterations, and I thought it makes sense I’m writing these songs when we’re all so far apart.
These songs are about love that can be found in our happy places, but also in our grief, in our children, when our heart is broken. Love is present.
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