Maybe I Am by Fletcher

Album: In Search Of The Antidote (2024)

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Fletcher - the singer-songwriter Cari Fletcher - has a hefty social media presence and is very much in the public eye. This is great for promotion but can take a toll emotionally because not everyone is nice, but anyone can fire off a post or comment. "Maybe I Am" reflects how she feels when she reads these missives.

"I remember during that time I was reading so much about myself online - comments and opinions and what people were saying about me," she told Entertainment Tonight. "I really wanted to write from the perspective of, what would it feel like if I did believe what everybody said about me was true? What if all those things were true? This song came out of it. Like, maybe I am all those things."

"There's so much online and there's so much in our faces at all times," she added. "I'm also a sensitive Pisces, which is the chaos that ensues. That combination together has been kind of difficult."
This is the first track on Fletcher's second album, In Search Of The Antidote, recorded after a battle with Lyme disease that left Fletcher feeling vulnerable and curtailed her party lifestyle. Recovery and re-evaluation are themes of the album.
Fletcher wrote the song with fellow musician-songwriters Oliver Peterhof, Gregory Hein and Michael Pollack, as well as Stefan and Jordan K. Johnson of the The Monsters & Strangerz production team. Pollack is one of the writers on the Miley Cyrus hit "Flowers."

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