WATCH: Buick Audra Shares ‘It All Belonged to Me’

New album. Adult Child, out June 13

May 22, 2025May 22, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2025, Adult Child, Buick Audra, Converge, It All Belonged To Me, Kurt Ballou, Miami, Nashville

On June 13, Nashville-based singer-songwriter and Grammy Award winner Buick Audra will release her new album Adult Child.

Self-produced by Audra, the record was crafted across two Nashville locations: Sound Emporium Studio A, and her own Fort Knockout Studio.

“This project comes from two different places. The first, is a set of awareness about my tendencies and cycles that are absolutely informed by what I come from, but which I sometimes still perpetuate today,” Audra says about the album’s impetus. “The second, is a desire to own the identities I wear in this life, not to have them defined by other people. Right at the intersection of those two things is this term I’ve been using since I was 18 years old: adult child. Maybe that term is familiar to you, maybe it isn’t. But in some spaces, those two words tell the person I’m speaking to that I was raised without the typical supports in place, that I have an outsized sense of responsibility, and that I struggle with my self-worth. Worse, if I advocate for my own wellbeing, I might gain a relationship with myself while jeopardizing relationships with others. It’s tricky. This is a record about fighting for myself, often against my own DNA.”

To celebrate the release, Audra will embark on a U.S. tour with dates in cities including Chicago, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and more. A special hometown album release show will take place on the day the LP drops at The Basement in Nashville. Tickets for all shows are on sale now.

Today Audra is excited to share her new single “It All Belonged To Me” along with its striking music video. The video blends evocative visuals with an intimate interview where Audra dives into the song’s origins and emotional significance.

The video for “Belonged” was directed by Audra and Jerry Roe, who also shot and edited it. The footage of Audra is combined with a moving montage of vintage Miami/Miami Beach imagery, sometimes projecting right onto her. The opening sequence shows her current self standing in front of a collage of photos of her younger selves, all shot in Miami.

Buick Audra Adult Child, self-released 2025

“This video was both beautiful and painful to put together,” she explains of the video. “I gathered all of these pics of me taken in Miami between the ages of 15 and about 23, and they became the opening backdrop. I wanted the video to be about Miami from a distance, so Jerry looked for stock footage from the last 50 years and made that into the landscape both behind and on me as the song progressed. It was quit emotional to deliver the lyrics with the palms covering my face and body. Like an abstract baptism.”

As for the song itself Audra lays bare the story of missing a town that shaped her culturally and personally, but which feels off-limits to her due to being long estranged from her parental figures, one of whom still lives there. Still, she takes ownership of her time in Miami, and of who she was in those chapters of the song.

“’It All Belonged to Me’ is a piece I’ve been gearing up to write for a while,” she reveals. “I’m from this singular, weird, incredible place in the middle of the ocean, but my time in Miami was so informed by being moved back and forth between there and Boston, being claimed and unclaimed by assorted parental figures, and being mad to feel like I took up too much space. So, there’s this part of me that loves being from Miami, and this other part that’s self-protective and hasn’t let me go back in long time. When I was last there, I got to hear about how ungrateful I’d been for my entire life. And something in me changed that night. I found myself sitting in a car on Collins Ave. in Miami Beach, everything around me stunning and full of life, and there I was, listening to the same old diatribe about not being good enough. So, I stopped going back, stopped showing up for it. But I miss the place with my whole body. This song is me saying, I wasn’t that ungrateful kid; you might just have been the wrong person to raise me, and that’s not on me. Miami belongs to me, even from here, and so does my kid self. It’s a reclamation, if a wildly bittersweet one. We don’t talk enough about how choosing not to know family members is often about trying to keep oneself alive. It’s not an act of cruelty or apathy; it’s an act of self-preservation, of survival.”

On Adult Child, Audra is joined by Jerry Roe, Lex Price and Kris Donegan on six of the tracks, and applied a scaled-back approach on the other three. Her longtime collaborator Kurt Ballou (Converge) mixed the album. The artwork mirrors the music’s collage theme and was all rendered by Audra using Polaroids, layering techniques and her own handwriting.