PBG 3 Question Interview with Emily Daccarett "Another World" EP

Produced by a Girl™
Jul 9
4 min read

Emily Daccarett’s “Another World” EP invites listeners into a cinematic soundscape where love, destiny, and loss intertwine. The journey begins with “Clarity,” a vibrant alternative-pop track that captures the rush of surrendering to a love that feels fated. From there, the EP flows into the title track, “Another World,” where atmospheric electronic-pop textures echo the ache and beauty of saying goodbye to a soulmate. What makes this project shine is how Emily transforms grief into something radiant and immersive. The pulsing production and soaring melodies create a sense that these songs are more than music, they’re a testament to how love can echo across time, memory, and the universe.

1. There’s such a striking emotional contrast woven through “Another World”: “Clarity” sweeps us up in the rush of destined love, while “Another World” lingers in the aftermath of loss. When you reflect on these two tracks, do you see them as snapshots from different chapters, or do they feel like two perspectives from the same love story unfolding?

I’d say they’re definitely two perspectives from the same love story. I wrote "Clarity" about two months before Zane passed away, and I wanted to surprise him with it. "Another World" came after that loss.

It took time but the words for Another World came during a big healing phase, returning to music no longer felt like a jagged knife in my heart. It actually began as a letter to him, and once I started writing, everything I had been carrying finally had somewhere to go.

In that sense, the songs are snapshots from two very different chapters of the same story. But there are moments in Clarity that have taken on an entirely new meaning since his passing. What was once a song about finding someone who felt destined has become a song about a love that continues beyond this world. Even though we're separated by different worlds now, I still feel an unexplainable connection to him, and that bond continues to shape both songs in ways I never could have imagined when I first wrote them.

2. The title track takes grief and turns it into something cinematic and pulsing, with an energy that feels strangely uplifting, almost as if the music itself is reaching out beyond the ordinary. Can you share how you approached channeling such a personal loss into a soundscape that holds both heartbreak and hope, and what that creative process felt like for you?

Thank you. That truly means so much to hear because that balance between heartbreak and hope was exactly what we were trying to capture.

After I wrote what eventually became Another World, it existed first as a letter to Zane. I shared it with my collaborator and producer, Saun Santipreecha, and together we read through it. As we did, I found myself expanding on the memories behind each passage, reliving moments that had become anchors for me. One of the memories we kept coming back to was our final trip together. We stayed at our beach house in Honduras, and at one point Zane looked at me and said, "This is our happily ever after."

Saun had this incredible ability to listen beyond the words. He translated those conversations into the music itself, weaving together the joy we shared, the depth of our love, the ache of missing him, and the hope that one day we'll be reunited. We never wanted the song to live only in grief. We wanted it to feel like love continuing beyond loss.

The creative process was incredibly emotional, but it was also deeply healing. It gave me a place to preserve our story—not as something that ended, but as something that still exists, just in another world.

3. “Clarity” really captures that feeling of surrendering to a connection that’s bigger than anything we can explain, while “Another World” hints at how love keeps moving through us, even when someone is no longer physically present. Through creating this project, what have you discovered about destiny, memory, and those invisible threads that keep shaping who we are, long after a moment or person has shifted into something new?

Creating this project forced me to confront those invisible threads—the things we can't explain in a physical sense but somehow feel more real than anything we can see. It made me question destiny, memory, and what remains after someone is no longer physically here.

I've mourned grandparents who were fortunate enough to live long, beautiful lives, and that grief was profound. But losing Zane was different. It challenged everything I thought I understood about love, time, and what it means for someone to leave this world.

Through that search, I've found a deep sense of certainty that love doesn't simply end because a life does. I believe the people we love continue on in ways we may not fully understand, and that our connection to them can continue to shape us. Some of us are here for many decades, while others have a much shorter time to fulfill what they're meant to do.

If this project taught me anything, it's that the length of a life doesn't measure its love or its impact. Those invisible threads remain. They continue to guide us, change us, and remind us that some connections aren't bound by time or by this world.