{"id":55952,"date":"2023-10-17T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/10\/17\/how-maddie-zahm-spun-her-deepest-insecurities-into-songwriting-gold-im-writing-to-heal\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T19:04:17","slug":"how-maddie-zahm-spun-her-deepest-insecurities-into-songwriting-gold-im-writing-to-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/10\/17\/how-maddie-zahm-spun-her-deepest-insecurities-into-songwriting-gold-im-writing-to-heal\/","title":{"rendered":"How Maddie Zahm Spun Her Deepest Insecurities Into Songwriting Gold: \u2018I\u2019m Writing to\u00a0Heal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tWhen Maddie Zahm<\/a> meets fans of hers in real life, a question immediately pops into her mind. \u201cI\u2019m always wondering, \u2018Okay, so what\u2019s your<\/em> trauma?’\u201d she tells Billboard<\/em> over a Zoom call, sporting a cozy autumnal sweater. \u201cUsually they will straight up tell me, because I have absolutely touched on like four different traumatic topics with my music.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe singer\u2019s face lights up as she begins laughing at her songwriting habits. To others, that level of candor and directness from a stranger on the street might sound scary; for 24-year-old Zahm, it\u2019s a reciprocation of what she started with her music career. Thanks to radically forthright songs like \u201cFat Funny Friend<\/a>\u201d and \u201cYou Might Not Like Her<\/a>\u201d going viral on TikTok, the singer-songwriter grew accustomed to sharing her most internal thoughts with the people following her. <\/p>\n

\n\tOn her latest project, Zahm is going all-in on diaristic songwriting. Now That I\u2019ve Been Honest<\/a><\/em>, the singer-songwriter\u2019s debut album (out Friday, Oct. 20 via AWAL), provides listeners with some of Zahm\u2019s most intimate lyrics yet, looking back at her own experiences with trauma, coming out, and learning how to live her life as a fully functioning adult. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs she describes it, Zahm says she knew that she\u2019d already let fans in on her thought process, so it only made sense that her full-length project would double down on the premise. \u201cThere\u2019s this level of familiarity between [my fans and I] because I was really brutally honest with the EP [You Might Not Like Her<\/em>]. So it didn\u2019t make sense for me to all of a sudden not be honest,\u201d she says. \u201cWhy would I stray from what I\u2019ve been doing right thus far?\u201d<\/p>\n

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