Released during the recording of her second album, Mica Millar’s “A Little Bit of Me” captures an artist rethinking what creative sacrifice is supposed to look like.
“A Little Bit of Me” started as a single lyric and became the thing that got Mica Millar through recording her second album.
After her debut Heaven Knows earned five-star reviews and a Jazz FM award, she admits the process was “hard and painful.” Success didn’t make the work easier. It made it unsustainable.
The track’s mid-tempo soul groove leans on piano and percussion, locked into a retro warmth.
Millar’s voice moves over the arrangement, unforced and controlled.
It sounds smooth until you listen closely. “Cannot get away from that little bit of me” isn’t a line about triumphant self-acceptance. It’s about the part of herself that kept demanding she enjoy making music, not just survive it.
Recorded at Miraval Studios in Provence with a live band, the song became a reminder that creating records doesn’t require self-destruction.
“I don’t have to sacrifice absolutely everything on this creative pursuit or be unkind to myself or be in pain,” she says.
The mantra sounds obvious. For someone who ground through her debut, it’s hard-won knowledge.
“A Little Bit of Me” is about resisting the idea that pain is the price of seriousness.
The lyrics question what happens when you’ve tried being what everyone wanted but lost yourself along the way. Millar may be singing about the recording studio, but the weight sits heavier.
She’s asking whether giving everything you have means giving too much, whether “good enough” is actually enough when you’ve been taught to bleed for it.
She’s still self-managing, still running her own label, still doing everything herself.
The difference is that she’s no longer pretending the first album didn’t nearly break her.
The song isn’t about quitting.
It’s about refusing the idea that great music has to come from punishment.
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