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Before Willow ever knew I had a crush on here, she sent me this song to listen to, “Why Can’t It Be Mine” by Basia Bulat. By the title alone, you might understand that I felt this song was singing my song. And then wondered if Willow was telling me she knew! (She wasn’t.) But with lyrics like, “It’s just the way that you look sometimes/It’s been hard on me/It’s only a feeling but after all this time/Why can’t it be mine” … yeah. I was hooked.

So, when I wrote the song “What Do You Do” about my feelings of inadequacy and longing, I borrowed the dos and the ohs and the la das of that song and tacked them onto my own, feeling pretty brazen and brave.