Mia June, a 19-year-old singer/songwriter from Australia. I know we hear so often that someone is a wunderkind, a prodigy, etc., etc., and part of what I love about Mia June is that she’s wise about her years, not beyond them. Like, take her E.P. title: “Don’t Forget Your Bags”. It’s funny because what she means by “bags” is “baggage,” you know, as in: emotional stuff. But as people age out of teenagehood and into the “real world” of adult loneliness, tedium, aimlessness, alienation, pointlessness, boredom, etc., they kinda, like, forget who they were when they still believed they might amount to something. It’s like Johnny Cade said, with his dying breath, “Stay gold, Ponyboy.” But Mia June is Ponyboy, herself, and she’s smart enough to know the threats of that “real world” are, in fact, real, and hefty, and coming for her. Heck, by the time Biggie was 21 he had already proclaimed he was ready to die. It’s a hard world out there.
Mia says ‘Don’t Forget Your Bags’ is an ode to my adolescence, the people I have met during it that have formed the person I am, things I have experienced, good and bad, yearning, confusion, anxiety, love, anger and growing. I don’t want to forget anything in this journey from childhood to adulthood. I hope this EP will serve as a reminder of all of this, and to never ever forget my bags.
Try not to forget your bags, people.
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