Hello vampire hunters! Mina is back with a quick message for you all. She's here to share the news about It Wasn't All Bad, the new record by singer-songwriter (and Mina Van Helsing actress) Evangeline Young! Evangeline has spent years working on this record, and it's just a final big push of work away from being done. She's raising funds to help get to the finish line, and would love your help getting there.

If you enjoyed Evangeline's work in DTDM, check out the campaign and donate a bit to help her out if you can. (Or help to spread the word about it!) But please hurry - the campaign ends this coming June 14th!

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Here's a bit more about the album in Evangeline's own words:

Hello! My name is Evangeline Young, I’m a singer-songwriter and actor living in Brooklyn, NY. It’s with a lotta joy and gratitude and knee slappin’ happiness that I’m announcing…I made a record! It Wasn’t All That Bad is my first full length solo record–I began recording it in 2020, and finished earlier this year. This album has been a long time coming. I’m so excited to finally be able to share these songs and the incredible work of the talented folks who made it with me.

I’ve been singing and playing guitar since I was a kid, and started writing songs a little later into my teens. It felt like a superpower to me—taking an experience or a feeling and shaping it into a lyric or a melody. Since moving to NYC in 2017, I’ve played solo as well as collaborated with many of the incredible musicians in the music community here. It’s in those rooms with those people that these songs grew–and me right along with them. In a time of so much fear and isolation, a community of people coming together to sing, to express themselves and to hear each other is a deeply healing thing. It’s a gift to be a part of, and to contribute to.

The songs on It Wasn’t All That Bad (with the exception of the song “Home” written by my brilliant brother Noah Young) were all written over the course of a few years in my early 20s. I was learning a lot of weird, good, hard lessons (ain’t that just the way of the early 20s) and doing a LOT of growing, both as a songwriter and as a person. It’s a record about the hazards and great beauty of open heartedness. It’s about moving through hard things with people you love and walking out on the other side to a new view–one with a little more breathing room, some boundaries, and a perspective you couldn’t have found any other way. A view that allows you to look back on all those experiences and go “MAN. That was really hard, and I didn’t know, but now I know a little more and…it wasn’t all that bad.” Writing these songs gave those experiences a place to go. They’ve served as reminders for me. All I could hope for in sharing them is that they can be places to go and reminders for you, too.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for considering a donation. I really mean it when I say any amount you are able to contribute is meaningful and deeply appreciated. Sharing the link to the campaign and spreading the word is incredibly helpful too! I couldn’t have made this record without the community of people who invested their time and talent and belief into helping me make it, without the friends and family who gave me many encouraging pep talks along the ups and downs of the process, without every person who continued to ask “When’s the record coming dude?? We wanna hear it!” It’s because of all of you that this record is done and sounds as good as it does. Thank you for being a part of this community.

I’m so proud of this record, and I really can't wait for you to hear it. The gratitude I have could fill the Grand Canyon.

With Grand-Canyon-sized love and joy and gratitude,

Evangeline

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Mina Presents: It Wasn't All That Bad, Evangeline Young's New Record