Discovery

Just a day over 14 months ago we were given the gift called Of the Seas, Bella's featured 4th record that had the most significant gap between the last record..... at the time. Now, over a year later, she's got another amazing gift for all of you. Through tireless days and struggle to find a new story for another record, she made of what time she had to write and create music for her next record. And finally, the wait is over! Here, she gives you today, Discovery.

Discovery
1- Since the Beginning
2- Turn Back to Men
3- Conqueror
4- The Colorless Days
5- Discovery
6- The Love That Stopped Time
7- One and Only Fearless Heart
8- Broken Tree
9- Silence Is Alive
10- Ghost
11- Saviour
12- The Bravest of Lions
13- Bound
14- Everything
15- Master of the Damned
16-Sunshine
17- Fire and Flames
18- The War Begins

Tell us about Discovery.
Bella: Discovery is my 5th and final record. Just kidding. There's more, I promise. But um, Discovery is a long, tiresome, and powerful piece of work. I didn't expect it to take me this long to make a freakin' record seeing as I have made 4 of them before it. But this one is pretty special so I am glad I took my time. This one kind of frames my whole life. Because back one day I was looking through old notebooks I had a few ancient songs in, (they were no good) except for one that I did see had some good quality lyrics in it (One and Only Fearless Heart) which was probably from when I was maybe 11. So I dusted off that chestnut and turned it into something awesome. But it really comes down to writing about the person I've become and it is a person I've really enjoyed to see finally arrive. I've got this strength, courage, independence, and happiness that I never found in MYSELF before. And now that I'm this person, it's like, wow, look at all this messy stuff that doesn't really seem so scary and intimidating anymore. That's really cool to see. So it really just comes down to discovering who I've become, who I am, and ultimately who I want to be.

Someone noted that you tweeted a while ago about a song called 'Fire and Flames' that you wrote one day and you always play it when you're angry. Is that the same Fire and Flames in this record?
That's a funny thing. I did write the original Fire and Flames AGES ago, I think in the beginning of Of the Seas actually. And uh, I was just angry one night and I was strumming really angrily on my guitar and had this really cool jam going and wrote these really angry lyrics to it and it never really had a name haha, so one day I was playing it and then I did that tweet something like, "I'm gonna call this Fire and Flames because I was firing and burning with anger when I wrote it" and also mentioned that the lyrics were crap. Haha they honestly were, and I still have them too. So I thought, hmm, maybe I can rewrite this and turn it into an actually good song. So I did, and now it stands as my angry jam with a cool story hanging in the midst.

What is the song Sunshine about?
Sunshine is actually a dream song I wanted to write. It involves the chorus of 'You Are My Sunshine' and it's essentially my spin off of it. It's just a cute little diddy that I created from that song because it has always been one of my favourites to sing. So now I have my own version to be proud of!

What's the first thing you do when you finish a record?
Get exited. Then the very first thing I do is play the entire record and just make it all feel final and catch the mistakes I might have missed. Then I finalize the track list. (Order of songs) and then I'm ready to bring it to the world.

Sooooooooooooooo

Well um, first things first. I haven't blogged since November.... 2012.... Ooops.
A lot has happened since then. God, a lot has happened since then.

Well 1, I'm engaged.
 2- I'm going to South America for 8 months at the end of July with James.
 3- I did some pretty stupid stuff that I'll get into
 4- I got my laptop taken away for a century because of one of those things.
 5- nearly god un-engaged because of one of those things.
Needless to say, a lot has happened since I last blogged.

We'll start with the first part. One night, I was having a really terrible night, courteous to family, and friends, and there was an enormous fight with James that ended with him threatening to cancel our engagement and break up for good. This causing me to do something pretty reckless and take out my emotions and anger on the WRONG people. And I definitely regret that.

The day after that, I went to one of my friends houses' after school that I thought I could count on this person. I was wrong.

Turns out she is a smoker and lied to me about it. And I don't mean just smokes, I mean pot. I didn't know that. Until the next morning when my mom found it in my bag. The day before, that friend asked if she could put her purse in my bag, and I guess it fell out. Because it obviously wasn't my weed that my mom found. Of course, they completely flip out. One of the very biggest fights to ever have happened in my family. And of course, they didn't believe me when I told them I had no idea where it came from. Of course I soon put that puzzle together and knew whose it was. No laptop, no friends, no nothing. Completely cut off and James was still really angry.

In the midst of my whole life falling apart right before my eyes, I took a walk. A few weeks into grounding, I found myself at the park halfway between mine and James' house. I knew he was working that night, so him and maybe a friend wouldn't be there. That was until he inevitably drove by (has his license and can drive himself) and apparently noticed me. He didn't stop. Still mad. I decided that was not how we worked and he should have stopped, and talked to me. So I took a look at the ring on my finger and angrily walked to his house. I took of the ring, put it in front of the door, rang the bell and ran home. He should have been there for me right? We are engaged, he should have just forgiven me. Right?

Little did I know, it was really tearing him apart more than I knew. I guess he found my ring and just had an emotional breakdown and called me to meet him where we got engaged. So I did. When I got there, he was there waiting for me. I stood in front of him and looked into his intimidating eyes. He had been doing some crying, obviously. Eyes were really red and he looked a mess. I'll skip the emotional bit he gave me. But when he was done, he grabbed my hand, and slid my ring back onto my finger. We hugged for what seemed like forever and then he sat with me on my doorstep until about 11, just listening to me cry my eyes out and talk. He didn't want to leave, because we'd been apart for so long, but my grounding was still in partial effect.

Things have gotten better since then and I'm excited to go to South America with him this summer. And that's what happened
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