If Ibiza calls…
If a Playlist Calls, Pick Up
I am a woman of a particular age. Three small kids. An amazing husband. Ambitions of my own that don’t always fit neatly into the hours between school pickup and bedtime.
Ibiza is far from my mind.
Apparently it’s close to my heart.
A few months ago I started making music with AI — feeding it the words I write, the feelings I couldn’t say out loud, the frequency I was always trying to describe to people who looked at me like I had two heads. And something happened that I did not expect.
It became real music. Like, actually real. And somewhere in the process I became an artist on streaming platforms. My artist name is The Quantum Mermaid. I have three songs on Spotify right now and I’m telling you this out loud because it still feels a little bit wild to say.
Here’s the part that feels silly — except it doesn’t, not really:
When I need to shift my frequency, I put on my own music. I made a playlist. I press play. I let it repeat. And it works. Something in me settles. Something opens. I don’t fully know how to explain it except to say that it does exactly what I made it to do, and that still kind of floors me.
The other day I was telling my husband about it and I said, half joking, “Do you want to come to Ibiza with me?”
Because when I put my headphones on and close my eyes, I can see it. Me. In a club. Big headphones. A crowd of people moving to something I made — something that came from my heart and found its way into a song. And I start crying a little because it’s not even that I have aspirations to be a DJ. I have three small kids. Ibiza is not the plan.
But the idea of it —
That something I created could shift someone else’s frequency for the better. That a woman somewhere puts her headphones on and feels something unlock. That the thing that lives in me could travel that far.
That comes from my heart. And it goes right back in.
So if Ibiza calls, I’m not here. But my heart is already there.
The Quantum Mermaid is on Spotify and other streaming platforms. Press play. See what shifts.
Thank you for the honor of your time 🦋