But you have to remember that these are all things that she has survived and is here to tell us and motivate us to be brave and strong.
When asked about the album, she said:-
“I realised I was sick from being nice. I’d spent so much of my life being the bigger person, forgiving people, understanding people, making excuses for people. I’d become disconnected from huge parts of myself. BLOODLETTING was about reclaiming them.”
The title itself is the perfect metaphor as history tells us that bloodletting was an ancient medical practice where blood was released from the body to cure illness. For Rory, it became a spiritual act. A release of everything buried too deep for too long.
Rory pushed herself further than she ever has to bring us the raw emotion she has deep down. She wanted to take her music to a new level and she most definitely managed it with this album. She started having vocal lessons and even learned to scream in order to get her message to us, the adoring fans, that life can be shit, but it's never too late to be who you want to be.
The album includes her last 5 singles Degradation, Dead Girl Walking, Kids These Days, Strange and Swallow.
My favourite track is A Cure For Cancer, although it made me cry because it made me think of my dad, it is a beautiful song, it pulled on ever heartstring. It's one of the songs that Rory sang at Download this year and cried my eyes out then as well.
Tracklist:
1. Welcome to bloodletting
2. Degradation
3. Swallow
4. A cure for cancer
5. Mortal
6. The death of a people pleaser
7. Kids These Days
8. Dead Girl Walking
9. Grey
10. Oh when the saints
11. Hometown
12. Strange
13. Do you want to live?
Tracklist:
1. Welcome to bloodletting
2. Degradation
3. Swallow
4. A cure for cancer
5. Mortal
6. The death of a people pleaser
7. Kids These Days
8. Dead Girl Walking
9. Grey
10. Oh when the saints
11. Hometown
12. Strange
13. Do you want to live?