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Jayne Doe: The Musical Alter Ego Of Sydney Agudong
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purpose is as far as (writing my own movie) goes, but right now I feel the urge and calling to speak and bring to the surface mental health and the normalcy of how things can appear when someone is going through something that you have no idea about because you can’t see it,” she explains. “Hopefully people can either relate to it and feel better or learn something that they didn’t know before.”
thing and I wanted to know everything and answer the questions I had about every- thing. That was the biggest thing about my mental health, too. It came crashing down when I realized that I actually don’t know anything. There should be a comfort to that.
To Hollywood, a song that depicts her conflicting rela- tionship with the place that she always yearned for.
“Even though it’s saying ‘welcome to Hollywood’ , there’s a weird mix of feelings you tend to feel in the song,” she elaborates. “There’s a melancholiness to it, there’s a heartbeat, there’s a rush, there’s energy, there’s this lackadaisicalness to it. I was going through a lot of mental health struggles during that time when I moved out to LA. I had culture shock. I think that people don’t realize and take into account that ... it’s a very vulnerable thing to try and chase your dreams — to put yourself out there, to get your heartbroken over some- thing that you want so badly.”
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Agudong teases that the album will release before the end of the year. Till then, she’ll be working hard and having fun while her career continues to escalate. She attributes her down-to-earth outlook on life to her local-style upbringing.
Outside of showbiz, Agud- ong plays another character: Jayne Doe, an alter ego of sorts and the moniker in which she released music under.
Born and raised on Kaua‘i, Sydney Agudong is exploring her early 20s in the heart of Hollywood. PHOTOS COURTESY NICHOLAS POWELL AND SYDNEY AGUDONG
we’ re one of the same,” she says. “The things that I’m go- ing through are things that ev- erybody is going through and vice versa. It’s not to say that it devalues any sort of feelings but it’s more of a way, like,
“I wrote something down about the whole point of Jayne and the music: ‘I’ m constantly and comfortably sitting in the middle of an identity crisis.’ That’s what I feel like I go through at any point in the day. I don’t know what I’m going to do next — and that’s OK, that’s the point of it and that’s why a lot of my music is going to resonate with real life.”
“Growing up in Hawai‘i gave me and my sister hum- ble beginnings and helped us stay grounded,” she says. “We were very accustomed to different cultures and back- grounds, which gave us a re- ally nice foundation for our own morals and the way we go about things now.”
“The meaning of ‘Jane Doe’ is an unidentified female, but in general, I think my biggest point was that I wanted to make sure that people knew
I’ m unidentified because I don’t know who I am yet — none of us do — and that’s the whole point.
Unlike Dorothy, it takes Agudong a little more than just three ruby-red heel clicks to go back to home. But she’s comforted knowing that it’s only a six-hour flight away —
“I was growing up with that whole perfectionist side; I wanted to be good at every-
So far, Agudong has re- corded and released Welcome
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