Maybe I Am

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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