Q: Hi Karly! I'm a huge fan of your music. your storytelling is engaging and beautiful, and it seems like you have a deep awareness of and appreciation for your surroundings (maybe even or especially when the surroundings are rough). I know you've talked about religion and god in your songs ("daughter of god," etc.), and you've mentioned on this webspace that you are jewish. I grew up catholic and am now 27 and have been going through what I've been calling my god-curious phase, though mostly I know it's probably not a phase and will be a forever state of being. you've mentioned Flannery O'Connor on here too, and she's someone I've been revisiting because she was outspoken about believing in god and reading religious existentialists.
i'm wondering, are you god-curious? and if so, have you always been or are you newly so?
I really appreciate you as a writer and artist, thanks for being here <3 and for writing this blog!!!
A: okay first off, incredible question! I love the concept of god-curious.
I donโt think Iโve ever been god-curious trulyโฆ it was just never really brought up as a thing to actually believe in when I was growing up. It more just floated around as this amorphous character that showed up in the stories of Judaism. We never discussed God in my house or during holidaysโฆ or maybe if we did I was just zoned out.
I think itโs really fascinating to think about what the idea of God motivates people to do though, and I think thatโs why it ends up being discussed in so many Wednesday songs. I think people that have a strong belief in God can genuinely be pointed in such a beautiful direction, and have very beautiful intentions. I am jealous of those people and their calm, and their ability to trust something so fully sometimes.
Although I donโt have an explicit commitment to Jewish/Christian/whatever God, I do have a HUGE capacity for belief. There is a place in my heart really desperate for an explanation for the pain and sadnesses of the world. I think my belief the idea of โFateโ has really taken up that space for me instead of a religious entity. Fate in turn has shown up in a bunch of songs as well. Itโs a much unsteadier ground to stand on compared to organized religion thoughโฆ and doesnโt provide the community aspect obviously.
I think some people fill that space with astrology or idkโฆ other philosophies? There are so many options for that now. I think whatever gives ya comfort and makes you strive to be a better person is cool.
Hope you find what youโre looking for!