Calling
What would happen if you showed your weird side to the world?
Listen to Calling on your favorite music app.
Meaning
“Calling” invites listeners to embrace the parts of themselves often labeled as “weird” or “different,” especially those who have felt pressured to hide their unique interests and perspectives. The song uses playful, imaginative imagery, like dragons, aliens, and lucid dreaming, to celebrate creativity and encourage reconnecting with one’s inner child.
It challenges the listener to reconsider why they hide their true self and envisions the freedom and connection that come from expressing authenticity. “Calling” is an anthem for anyone who has felt out of place, reminding us that expressing our authentic quirks can help us find a community that accepts us as we are.
Inspiration
The inspiration for this song came from my own experience as a neurodivergent person. People around me called me “weird” or “quirky” since I was young (and they still do). Growing up in a country that highly values conformity, I didn’t even know I was neurodivergent at the time. I had many niche hobbies and strange thoughts and theories that I kept to myself. Unlike most kids, I wasn’t interested in celebrities, superheroes, cartoons, or later, crushes and dating. Instead, I built a masked persona. I acted more agreeable, more excitable than I truly was, to blend in and avoid being singled out as weird. This was exhausting and isolating.
I had friends around me, but most of them didn’t share my interests or truly understand me, because I hid those parts of myself. This disconnection made me feel even more alone.
When I was 24, I wrote “Calling” as a declaration to stop caring about what others think of as “normal.” I decided to stop hiding my true self and embrace being wonderfully weird. I needed to show my weird side to the world if I hoped to find more people like me—other weird, neurodivergent, creative dreamers who may also be hiding their unique minds.
This song is dedicated to all the alien robots, the neurodivergents, the imaginative dreamers who feel out of place. It’s okay to proudly reveal your weird side and to let your inner child out to play without self-censorship. By doing so, you might find your tribe of fellow aliens, robost, or unicorns you wouldn’t have discovered otherwise.
Behind the Music Video
For the music video, I wanted to visually capture the spirit of the inner child—playful, unfiltered, and fully embracing all your weird and fantastical sides. Using Midjourney, I curated a colorful world filled with origami animals, aliens, and robots, each with funny faces and quirky poses that bring the song’s imagination to life.
The video features cute mini storylines: raindrops falling and screaming “oww” as they hit the ground before becoming a puddle; an alien abducting cows who then become cow astronaut musicians forming a space rock band; aliens and robots break-dancing and singing together; a chonky caterpillar transforming into a butterfly; unicorns throwing up rainbows, and many other whimsical scenes.
My sister-in-law told me my 5-year-old niece and 3-year-old nephew loved the video and kept asking to watch it repeatedly. I take that as a sign of success :D If literal children enjoy it, I hope your inner child will love it too.
Lyrics
Songs of seashell sounds
Dragons in the clouds
Floaters sparkling gold
Aliens’ secret code
Spin it
Turn upside down
You gotta let it out
All you hide inside your mind
Connections only you know
Did you know that rain
When it hits the ground
Resonating sound
That comes out is OWW!
Roll it
Turn it around
You gotta bring it out
All you hide behind your wall
Connections you know
Ah I've been calling out to you
Ah here I am reaching out to you
Listen to your heart
Let it free the strangest things in your imagination
Ah I've been longing to know you
Lucid dreamers
Multiverse travelers
Paracosmic theorists
Army of fantasists
Ah I've been calling out to you
Ah here I am reaching out to you
Listen to your heart
Let it free the strangest things in your imagination
Ah I've been longing to know you
Credits
Music
Artist, Composer, & Producer: Tamlin.
Mix & Master Engineer: Max Honsinger
Video
Director & Editor: Tamlin.
Images: Midjourney
