Brooklyn’s pronoun channels hope and uncertainty in heart-wrenching debut “a million other things”

“'a million other things' came from a place of hope,” she explains. “Me and my long-term girlfriend went on a sudden break, while she was away for a couple of weeks. She was about to come back, and we were going to talk about what our future would look like.”

There’s a yearning for things to return to normal with the looping lyrics,“Come back baby / Even if it hurts.” Unfortunately for Vellturo, that didn’t happen. “We weren’t speaking at the time. I ended up writing this song instead. I still don't think she's heard it.”

It was at this time, in December 2015, the pronoun project began to take shape, the name referencing her position as a one-person band. Her sound was created “in a tiny nook of my bedroom,” says Vellturo. “I had an old iMac, a Squier Fender guitar, an interface from 2009, and a practice amp with preset guitar effects.”

Vellturo has been working on her own music for 15 years or so, so the wait between recording and release seemed longer than most. “I never had anything I was truly proud of until now,” she tells us. Like any artist putting their work out into the world she feels somewhat apprehensive: “It’s a little nerve wracking because you never know how people will react, but at the end of the day I love it.”