buick audra's self-reflection is delivered with conviction in "it all belonged to me"

We’ve got less than a month until Nashville’s Buick Audra releases her latest, self-produced, full length project, titled ADULT CHILD. While we wait for that genius, the newest single off that album, “It All Belonged to Me,” and its accompanying video are now available.

She sings the song with a strength in the vocals and conviction in each lyric. The track itself was written to answer a question Buick Audra is often asked, if she ever returns to Miami, where she grew up. Explains Buick Audra:

I’m from this singular, weird, incredible place in the middle of the ocean, but my time in Miami was so informed by being moved back and forth between there and Boston, being claimed and unclaimed by assorted parental figures, and being mad to feel like I took up too much space… Miami belongs to me, even from here, and so does my kid self. It’s a reclamation, if a wildly bittersweet one.

“It All Belonged to Me” is a self-reflective piece about attachment and belonging to a place, another piece of this gorgeous concept album full of awareness and presence of mind. In the video, Buick Audra is basked in warm lighting, forefront to a blank wall or projector, as different images and moving art is cast over her. About the video, she expands:

This video was both beautiful and painful to put together. I gathered all of these pics of me taken in Miami between the ages of fifteen and about twenty-three, and they became the opening backdrop. I wanted the video to be about Miami from a distance, so Jerry looked for stock footage from the last 50 years and made that into the landscape both behind and on me as the song progressed. It was quite emotional to deliver the lyrics with the palms covering my face and body. Like an abstract baptism.

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buick audra’s self-reflection is delivered with conviction in “it all belonged to me”