About Shirly

I've been writing poems since I was 8. Some about human connection but mostly I write about a life I never lived out. Emotions I never felt. Things I've never got to experience. I like to think that I've lived out heartbreak, hardship, euphoric happiness through my songwriting and I hope my listeners do too.

I've approached songwriting the same way a screenwriter writes movies—there's characters in my head, a scene, a dialog, a story. I can't convey too much storytelling in my songs, but I try to paint enough of a picture that you can fill in the gaps yourself. Each song is like a three-minute movie where you become the main character.

Whether it's sitting in an electric chair in "Last Words," feeling numb at 3AM in "Ozone," or dancing one last time in "Come On"—I want you to step into these moments and feel them as if they were yours. That's the magic of music: it lets us live a thousand lives we'll never actually live.