My Music Episode 377 - Philine

When Philine writes a song, she invites everyone to spend a little time inside of her head.  Her tender voice, delicate tunes, and vivid lyrics grab your attention right away, but it's her wild imagination that really hooks you and, ultimately, inspires. It's as if she's turning her feelings into real-life magic, letting her thoughts dance around in catchy melodies and shimmering chords. After quietly buzzing out of The Netherlands, the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist opens up her world on 2024’s side-effects of living in a fantasy EP [Nettwerk Music Group]. “During the writing process, I spent a lot of time inside of my brain,” she notes. “I have a huge imagination, and I’m a big overthinker. I tend to live in fantasy more than reality. I get so caught up with how I perceive things and my almost movie like version of life. The upside to it is that with a mind like that, I’ll always have stories to tell. But the thing with a story is, it’s not reality, it’s a story. And it keeps you from living in the actual reality. When that happens, or when reality hits in my face, I isolate myself and become very absent to the outside world. These songs are the moments when I’m captured inside of my thoughts.” On the first single “green,” acoustic guitar washes over a soft beat as her breathy cadence instantly enchants. A wistful hook takes hold, and she exhales, “Darling, everything is green. Took me so long just to see.” She recalls, “I wrote it after my first psychedelic experience, it felt like everything split and came back together as one universal thing. My perspective switched for the better. ‘green’ is about the bright side of life, love, and coming home. You’re surrendering to the collectiveness.” In the end, philine sings what’s in her head and in her heart on every song. “I’ve learned that it’s part of life to be confused about life and experience ups and downs,” she leaves off. “I hope my music can connect people. We’re all dealing with things in our own ways. We shouldn’t focus on what separates us, but what connects us.”