Alex Blue
Pronouns: she/her
As a mother, wife, and a bisexual Hispanic Jew who has truly embraced her identity, Alex Blue crafts music that invites listeners into her story and give glimpses into her life.
Formerly known as Alex G, at one point Alex had the fastest growing music channel on YouTube. “I was so many things for so many people,” she says, “but I didn’t know who I was for myself.” This realization was the catalyst that led her to step outside of the mold she’d used to build a successful career, and to find an artist identity of her own.
In 2020, she relaunched her career under her married name, Alex Blue. Since then, she’s released three singles and collaborated on a new EP with artists she’s admired for years. Her next projects include several more singles and, soon, another full-length album.
Alex is married to her wife, Torri, in October 2018, and they welcomed their first baby, Auden Rhy Blue, in December 2020. They currently live with their two dogs in a home with an overgrown backyard and lots and lots of cardinals, bumblebees, and fireflies.
Instagram handle @imalexbluenow
“The Songbird”
Track No. 2 - 3:50
In “The Songbird,” Alex invites you to exhale, to unclench, to be at peace. Wafting on this song is the feeling of effortlessness and sweetness – permission to be.
While listening, imagine that you are at peace, maybe while lying on your back in an open field or in the presence of your best friend with the sun on your faces. Allow your body to be at ease.
Sometimes, as queer people of faith, we get told that our changes are bad or disappointing or threatening. Our families or communities might say to us, “You’ve changed,” as though they were losing you. But Alex sings, “If you’re changing, just look around you. It’s magic, isn’t it?”
[...] If you’re changing, congratulations.” She invites us to embrace the changes we experience, to even see them as a way of growing into fuller and healthier life.
The Hebrew at the end of this song translates to, “Who is like You among the gods, Adonai? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, awesome in praises, doing wonders?”
This is a Jewish prayer and song derived from the words of Moses, who celebrates God’s unique power and love after the Israelites were rescued from enslavement by Egypt. It’s a love song to God about liberation. In stepping out of the confines that held us, we can experience liberation in our faith, our lives, and our love.
Song credits:
Written by: Alex Blue / Vocals: Alex Blue / Background Vocals: Gretta Miller / Piano: Latifah Alattas / Clarinet: Ryan Wheless / Drums: Tyler Cuchiara / Produced & Mixed by: Kyle Paul Miller / Mastered by: David Wilton at Coalesce Audio
Lyrics
The Songbird
by Alex Blue
I spent most of my life
Waiting for what happens after I die
Freedom we sang and I tried to obey
While the butterflies danced in the wind
I spent most of my nights
Begging forgiveness for being alive
Tension prevailed in my stuttered exhale
While the songbird sang effortlessly,
If you love her
Reach out and love her
Don’t fight your own skin
It was made to be lived in
If you’re changing
Just look around you
It’s magic, isn’t it?
When leaves turn green to red
I grew into my life
Shedding my shackles one shame at a time
Lighter I felt holding hands with myself
While the summer heat cooled to a breeze
So I married a girl
Mourned when my family fell from my world
And when our neighbors cut down all the pines ‘round their house
My wife cried so we planted some more
And the songbird sang reverently,
If you love her
Reach out and love her
Don’t fight your own skin
It was made to be lived in
If you’re changing
Just look around you
It’s magic, isn’t it?
When leaves turn green again
Mi chamochah baelim Adonai, Adonai
Mi kamochah nedar bakodesh, bakodesh
Nora t’hilot, oseih fele
If you’re changing,
Congratulations.
Now what will you do?
Your life is up to you.
Check out more of Alex Blue music at imalexbluenow.com