09/10/2025
❤️🎶❤️ “Tomorrow, tomorrow, I’ll see ya tomorrow, it’s only a day away…” ❤️🎶❤️
Tomorrow is the big day Jaylee has been waiting for- Performing the Official Debut Single, “Free” on the Bendigo Bank Stage for the Loud and Proud - Logan Pride Festival at Kingston Butter Factory Cultural Precinct ❤️🎶❤️🦋🌈🌻🌞
I originally wrote this song for my high school graduation 22 years ago in the year 2002 and performed it with a friend playing backing on piano for me at the graduation, for my peers…
It was originally written as a freedom song, for many aspects of what a lot of the student body felt, through the high school experience. The first part of my high school experience was a lot of fun, I hung out with a lot of different people and groups but my favorite place to be was playing brandy with “the boys”, running through the bush and throwing a ball… Most of my mates were in the year above me and a lot of them left school in grade 10 too… I spent the latter part of high school as a “loner” who was a also a “social butterfly” and so by myself, I flitted and fluttered around from one peer group to the next in lunch breaks; And when I felt “peopled out”, I’d sit in the library, at the back, in the corner, on the floor hidden behind the stacks reading “Frankenstien” by Mary Shelley as a challenge to myself, being a very difficult book for me to read (I never did actually finish reading it despite my trying)…
A big part of that high school experience for those I connected with, during that time, was being ostracised for the choices we made, that were what made us who we are; And having to be someone we weren’t, to be accepted by our peers, parents and society in general.
A lot of people have asked why I haven’t “done anything” with my original music, over the years…
The short and very watered down reason that is most easily swallowed in general conversations is-
I could not be an original artist until I was able to be completely, unapologetically, unashamedly, genuinely authentic and free to be me!
To become this person who I am, has taken a lot of counseling, psychology, trauma therapy, healing, un-masking, un-learning and re-education/education, tears, facing fears, re-framing, help, love, support, stability- Following the butterfly over the rainbow and into the field of sunflowers, always chasing the sun!
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The bottom line is (literally here):
Presenting original music takes a lot of courage- To wear your heart on your sleeve can be a scary thing-
I have finally overcome this fear-
So now I’m here!
This is me!
Jaylee.
