Aubrie Edmond, Contributing Writer

For the past six months, I have been working on writing, recording, and producing an album called All Dogs Go to Heaven. I have been making music since I was a child, but I’ve never tried to release my work even though it has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember. Recently, I have been trying to live my life without limits. I’m doing things for myself, and I’m stepping out of my own way. Having recently graduated college, I’ve been wrestling with the future and finding my niche. I’m going to law school, but I never want to exist in a world in which I am not creating art. All Dogs Go to Heaven is less of a last hurrah and more of a new beginning. I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no reason that I can’t do it all.

All Dogs Go to Heaven is simultaneously the most personal and impersonal project I have ever made. It’s eleven songs long, and one and a half of them at most are truly based on my life. The rest are based on my real emotions but inspired by the various media I’ve been consuming throughout the past year. I wrote songs about King of the Hill, America’s Next Top Model, South Park, The Girls Next Door, I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown!, and so many more things than I could ever put words to.As someone who writes about themselves all the time, it was an interesting creative exercise to take on new perspectives. Before I started working on this album, I hadn’t worked on music in years. I had been on a medication that almost completely stifled my creativity, and I did the one thing that all doctors tell you to never do. I just stopped taking it. I’d been on it for about two years, and after my junior year of college, I decided I wanted to get back to myself. It was rough, but I think that this album got me through it, and I’m making something that I’m truly proud of.