Merci by Maky Lavender

"Merci" is my sixth studio album, and looking back, it feels like a time capsule of my early twenties. It’s unapologetically a young love album — messy, honest, and full of contradictions. I was writing about everything: the toxic moments, the tenderness, the push and pull, the random hook-ups, what pulls two people together and what tears them apart. I kept coming back to the idea of drinking and smoking to escape the world and fall into intimacy — even the spark of burning a spliff felt poetic to me at the time, like a tiny pain you choose because you’re chasing something bigger.

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