On the first track of Miya Folick’s album “Roach,” “Oh God,” the singer-songwriter kicks off with a cry for help: “Oh God, do I need God? Who is God? I’ve never had God.” It’s an audacious opening line for a confession that feels like it can only be uttered out loud during some drunken-night-gone-wrong meltdown on the bathroom floor—proving that Miya isn’t one to bite her tongue.
From cathartic liberation in tracks like “Get Out Of My House” to bittersweet reminiscing in “2007,” the remainder of the musician’s second album continues to embrace that deep level of honesty no matter what emotion is conveyed. It’s a record that details Folick’s rocky journey through adulthood, using vulnerable proclamations and catchy melodies.
Miya Folick sat down with Character Media the night of her album release show at the Moroccan Lounge to detail the process of making her latest project, how she’s grown as an artist and individual since she began music and her “obsession” with cockroaches as the pivotal mascot for the album.
Character Media: What is the significance of the album being titled “Roach?” Did the song “Cockroach” come before or after?
Miya Folick: I’m having trouble remembering, but I think I wrote “Cockroach” in 2020, and then pretty soon after, I started thinking that the album should be called “Roach.” I really liked “Cockroach,” and it felt like it encompassed a lot of the different things on the album. And then I just thought “Roach” was a cooler-sounding title than “Cockroach.” But the first instance of “cockroach” appearing in the writing of the record was “Tetherball”— the lyric goes, “curled up like a cockroach in the dirt, curled up like a roach in the dark.”
CM: So would you say a cockroach was a representation of your fears and insecurities?
MF: The reason that “Roach” started feeling like the right title as time went on was…
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