For Sophomore Danny Johnson, creativity has been a gateway for unlocking her passions ever since she was five years old.
“I started [theater] when I was five, because I really loved ballet and I wanted to go farther into that zone,” Johnson said. “I think it’s fun to get out of your comfort zone and pretend you’re a different person for a day, and I like expressing myself through song, dance and acting.”
As her creative interest increased with theater, she began to take on more interests in high school.
“I write songs about my personal experiences, and personal emotions and just pretty much about stuff that has happened to me,” Johnson said. “It helps me express my emotions in a simpler way and also helps people connect.”
She draws inspiration from other artists.
“I like to make contemporary style songs, like … Phoebe Bridgers,” Johnson said. “My favorite song is [called] ‘Ceilings’ by Lizzy McAlpine because it’s … a very emotional song and … has a cinematic feel to it, and I like that.”
One of her biggest fans is a friend of hers, sophomore Brianna Homan, who fell in love with Johnson’s music at first listen.
“I really want [her music] to be produced [and] I want to … be able to listen to it. I’ve been begging her to give it to me, [but] she will not. I’ve been begging her. I literally said I would bake her cookies. I’d make her whatever dessert she wants. I’d said I’d do anything, and she still won’t give it to me, and I’m dying. That’s how badly I want it,” Homan said.
Johnson’s passion for creativity shines through her actions and personality in her day to day life.
“Through how she talks and then how she … treats you and stuff, like, she’s super sweet, and I think that, like, I feel like the song that I listened to … didn’t sound anything like her because it was … the inside of her. That was … definitely cool to hear. It was different,” Homan said.
When Homan began to gain interest in making music, Johnson helped to teach her
“I feel like … I’m just not good at, like, the things that she’s good at, like, the putting music with it, and then … sight reading, pretty much things you do in chorus, I suck at … and she’s like, really good at that. Like she always helps me like last year when I was in a class with her … she would always help me and she’d be like, ‘this is how you do it’ and I’d still be confused because it doesn’t click [for me], but for her, it clicks so easily,” Homan said.
