Today, rising pop singer/songwriter Ashley Kutcher details the ongoing battle between her head and her heart on the poignant new EP, Survive My Own Mind via Darkroom/Interscope Records. The seven-song collection is an emotionally powerful journey that finds beauty in both the ups and downs of life and love.
Kutcher kicks off the EP with the slow-building title track. “For most of my life, I have struggled with panic and anxiety,” she explains. “I wanted to write this song so that everyone struggling with anxiety can feel less alone and know that it is possible to survive your own thoughts.” That earnestness and relatability extends throughout Survive My Own Mind, whether she’s falling in love on the tender ballad “Sleepy” or drowning in the sorrows of a fresh break-up on the heartbreaking lament “Emotionless.”
Elsewhere, on acoustic meditations “Love You More” and “Nothing’s All the Time,” Kutcher reflects on the concept of time and how it can play with our emotions. “If I’m being honest, I don’t know if I’ll feel love as I did when I was young, anymore,” she sings on the former. But by EP’s end, she feels gratitude for her past—and present—on the dynamic “Do It All Again.” “At the end of the day I would do it all again, even if it hurt me, because it gave me amazing memories and helped shape the person I am today,” she explains. It’s those experiences that have also made Kutcher one of pop music’s most affecting up-and-comers.
While Survive My Own Mind includes a few new tracks, it also features some of Kutcher’s biggest successes this year, including viral hit “Nothing’s All the Time” and fan favourite “Love You More,” which has amassed over 9.5 million Spotify streams. After the release of her One Eighty debut EP last November—featuring the hit “Love You from a Distance”—the Baltimore native continues to emerge as an artist to watch this year.
SURVIVE MY OWN MIND EP TRACKLIST
Survive My Own Mind
Love You More
Sleepy
Emotionless
Only Love Me Broken
Nothing’s All the Time
Do It All Again
