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While festivalgoers drove to Coachella for evening 1, Emilee Moore made certain to greet them in one of the best ways. The singer-songwriter carried out in entrance of a big, inexperienced, self-love-themed billboard in Palm Springs, California, that learn, “I made this billboard to help you feel a little less alone.” Emilee carried out her tune “Hanging On” whereas harnessed to the entrance of the signal on high of a Buzzbox constructing.
At the far proper of the billboard was a large damaged coronary heart, which was created with numerous fan-sent objects. Emilee requested her fan base to ship her belongings that they had been “hanging on” to from a former romantic companion: a chunk of jewellery, a love be aware or the rest.
“There’s so much history to these objects. I have chills even thinking of it,” Emilee defined to Billboard on Friday, April 12. “I wanted to do the most epic, grand thing for this song, and Coachella was just around the corner. I thought, ‘Billboards are so related to Coachella, and that would be a perfect place to perform.’ Not only are we catching people who love music, but we also might reach some people who are escaping their heartbreak for the weekend and going to a festival to not think about an ex.”
Emilee went on to elucidate the which means behind her single “Hanging On” and the way she wished to connect with followers who had been going by means of a breakup.
“When I was going through my worst experience with heartbreak, I was always looking for a sign, and I would find meaning in literally everything I could because I just wanted to feel less alone and feel understood,” Emilee famous. “I really just wanted to make a literal sign where it’s like, ‘This is your sign. You’re not alone in those feelings.’”
Letting go of a previous heartbreak is something however straightforward, and Emilee needs listeners to “not push away the feelings because they’re too painful,” she instructed the outlet earlier than detailing how she maintains an open dialog together with her followers — social media.
“I guess the biggest thing for me is anytime I’m trying to think of what I want to do for a release or on my social platform, I take it back to my younger, heartbroken self, and I think about what I needed in those moments and I try to create that on my [social media] page,” Emilee added. “If you look on my Instagram, for example, you’ll see a lot of movie scenes, you’ll see heartbreak quotes and those are not random, but they’re very specific to my experience and heartbreak and when I would see those growing up, I would feel less alone.”