Vulnerability and Songwriting: why it’s important | Beckah Amani | TEDxCurrumbin

Singer-songwriter Beckah Amani explores the topic of vulnerability in songwriting. Looking to Ed Sheeran, Kanye West and Nina Simone, Beckah unpacks how vulnerability can significantly impact listeners through honest and reflective narratives, shift cultural expectations, shatter industry standards and stand up for marginalised voices in a form of activism.

She highlights how this has shaped her approach to songwriting as reflected in the two original songs, “Let me love you” and “STANDARDS”, she performs. The fact that Beckah Amani, who's been releasing music on the Gold Coast since 2018, is so early in her career makes 'STANDARDS' all the more remarkable.

With a pulled-back delivery, Amani gives her message the space it deserves. There's nothing but a finger-picked guitar and her reverb-heavy voice. And what a voice — the tone rich and urgent, as if that message were just rushing to get out of her.

For her newest listeners — and they are bound to keep coming — she has a simple hope: that you "take a minute to reflect on the lyrics and the meaning I’m conveying in the song".

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx