Kina Grannis
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New Video: We'll Be Okay - Imaginary Future & Me
🕑 Added 2017-08-31 19:54:05 +0000 UTC Hello, friends!For some of you this song goes way back to Jesse's first EP (The Imaginary EP), and for some of you this song might be brand new! Either way, I have a little tale to tell.
Some time ago, Jesse wrote this song, recorded a rough demo, and emailed it to me without a word in the body of the email. This was still super early in Jesse's writing career, so a song from him was a BIG deal and a BIG surprise. I opened the email, probably cried a bit, had the idea to add some harmonies for him, recorded them, and sent the song back, also without a word. It was a very cool and special moment for both us as a couple and us musically.
Fast forward to earlier this week. After we shot the video, Jesse and I spent a bit of time trying to accurately remember this song's origin story. (For some of that debate, see the outro on Jesse's upload.) The (my) general consensus was that it happened right after I'd graduated college and moved to Austin, TX.
So I did a little sleuthing on my old email address, and to my delight, I found out I was super right ;) But more than that, the email exchange revealed that this took place EXACTLY 10 years ago--to the day!! To add to the weirdness of it all, today also happens to be our 4 year wedding anniversary, a fact neither of had realized upon scheduling this release. And to tie it all together, "We'll Be Okay" is a song about how no matter what life throws at us, we will get through it together--we'll be okay. So it turns out Jesse was very very right, and here we are today, 4 years into our marriage, 10 years after this song was written, and 14 years deep in our relationship, and I think we're doing pretty darn okay ;)
In other news, yesterday we had our August Coffee Date label hangout and it was so fun. Thanks to those of you who made it! If you missed it, you can peep the recording here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ny8vkj4i
We'll that's all for me. How are you all doing?? Would love to hear from you in the comments below. What excites you these days? Reading any great books? Struggling with anything? I wanna know.
Thanks for being part of this online family and for helping make my music possible. So, so, so grateful to have you all <3
xo
Kina
Comments
Amazing voice💪
Wow! Amazing! I love cute synchronicities like this!
argggh, this comment is for the Yellow song LOL !!
crazy office, late comment, ahhhh very nice
Beautiful voices,sound so great together
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I love this song!! I can't help but keep watching and it keeps changing! Love love love the harmonies! Wow!!!
struggling with what I always struggle with-life itself. but, that aside, I'm okay as far as I can tell. it was really nice hearing this song from around the time I first found you! I felt very nostalgic listening to it! take care! <3
In really like the twist to the song!
So beautiful.
