Romantic Girl is a novel that comes with its own soundtrack. Further still, there is a fairytale being built into the story.
It all began when Laurel Graham wanted to record a few songs she had written as a form of self-therapy to make sense out of her experiences. While recording, it became clear that there was a narrative running through the songs.
When she began developing the story while completing the first album, a line popped into her head during a long drive from Nashville to Florida. What was the story about, she asked herself. The response was, "It's about a girl who gets addicted to a magical pair of rose-coloured glasses and ends up in Love Rehab." This made her laugh out loud.
Over the past few years, Laurel Graham has been writing this story rooted in magical realism, writing more songs, and having more experiences that are driving the plot of Romantic Girl forward - and helping her to gain insights on the main relationship at the heart of this story - ones relationship to self which determines all the rest.
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