{"id":40381,"date":"2021-01-27T10:01:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=40381"},"modified":"2021-01-26T21:53:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T02:53:26","slug":"after-the-heartbreak-greya-will-still-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/after-the-heartbreak-greya-will-still-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Heartbreak, Greya Will Still &#8220;Thrive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GREYA_NEW-PRESS-PHOTO_THRIVE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40382\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With a bright red jacket and vibrant orange eyeshadow, Greya stands out against the desolate, vacant backdrops in a new music video for latest single, &#8220;Thrive,&#8221; about a one-sided relationship and the unrequited passion that comes along with it. \u201cThe song itself is pretty literal, so we wanted to accentuate the feelings that come with a toxic relationship and emulate them through various settings and emotions,&#8221; Greya explains. &#8220;You see me alone outside a gas station, going through a kind of mourning, contrasted with an ideal relationship, which we personified at the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director and videographer Hannah Gray Hall shot Greya opposite Tony Woodland, who plays her love interest, at Percy Priest Lake and an abandoned storefront in East Nashville. Greya&#8217;s bold red jacket symbolizes dauntless energy; red is a color of love, anger, and in some cultures, death. Greya blooms like a flower in the grey landscape\u2014one that, with some courage, will bloom again despite being beaten and bruised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extraordinarily, the entire process of making the video came together in the span of three days, including post-production. Greya met her director on set while shooting a video for her previous single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3V2GzSB1aTY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">He<\/a>,\u201d where they instantly connected. \u201cWhen the &#8216;Thrive&#8217; video situation became a time crunch, my roommate suggested giving her a call and within minutes we had a shoot date and concept down,\u201d Greya says. With help on set from Greya\u2019s roommates (and a bottle of whiskey they shared to keep warm), the group had the shoot down in one day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oeAR_OblBoQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Philly native, Greya is no stranger to the music scene, having picked up a guitar at age 10 only to start writing songs a year later. She has learned to express herself fearlessly in writing sessions with the likes of Shannon Sanders, Sacha Skarbek, Flo Reuter, and her &#8220;Thrive&#8221; co-writers Jasper Leak and Chris Keup, resulting in the arresting debut singles she released last year, &#8220;He&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1OYSygfhCBQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">All Hell Breaks Loose<\/a>.&#8221; But self-expression wasn\u2019t always second nature to Greya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDeveloping confidence really evolved all aspects of my music,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I spent a lot of time questioning myself, which of course pretty much affected everything I did. Getting past the self-doubt is both my biggest accomplishment and my biggest evolution in music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With her latest release, we see that the confidence extends to Greya&#8217;s personal life as she describes leaving a destructive relationship, finally realizing that her emotions came second to her partner&#8217;s selfishness and deciding to let go, while holding space for the heartache she&#8217;s suffered. She sings, \u201cWhy do I always do this?\/Want the guy that always puts me through it.\u201d It\u2019s easy to say in these moments of self-awareness that you\u2019ve learned your lesson, but it\u2019s a lifelong learning process according to Greya. \u201cOn paper, I now know how important it is to be up front when getting into any new relationship, which I\u2019ve never done in the past,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I was always so concerned with being the \u2018chill girl\u2019 who didn\u2019t ask too many questions, but that becomes a really difficult hole to climb out of. Going forward, I\u2019d like to be straight up, but that\u2019s easier said than done.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite how many times our hearts are broken, we&#8217;re only human. For Greya, facing the sadness in one relationship doesn\u2019t provide immunity for others to come &#8211; and that&#8217;s okay. \u201cThe short answer is yes, I&#8217;ve become aware of some things that could improve relationships in the future,&#8221; she says. &#8220;But the long answer is no, because I usually mess that kind of thing up one way or another.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Follow Greya on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/iamgreya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a> for ongoing updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a bright red jacket and vibrant orange eyeshadow, Greya stands out against the desolate, vacant backdrops in a new music video for latest single, &#8220;Thrive,&#8221; about a one-sided relationship and the unrequited passion that comes along with it. \u201cThe song itself is pretty literal, so we wanted to accentuate the feelings that come with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":40382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,305,567],"tags":[11689,11691,477,2296],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GREYA_NEW-PRESS-PHOTO_THRIVE-e1611706689960.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40405,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40381\/revisions\/40405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}