The Music That's Secretly Rooting for You
A full album experience of bossa nova tracks layered with positive affirmations and lyrics designed to get you into flow and help you stay there.
What if the music you painted to was secretly rooting for you the whole time?
I didn't set out to make a music album. I set out to solve a problem I had personally.
I was listening to positive affirmation music on YouTube one day while I was painting. And I thought: this is great. But what I really want is my own affirmations. My specific fears. My specific version of this.
So I started making music for myself.
I built the whole thing around what I actually needed in a creative session. The tempo, the rhythm, how the energy moves — all of it is designed to pull you into flow and keep you there. And the lyrics are my personal fears turned into affirmations. Things I needed to hear. Things I was building into my own practice.
I kept it to myself for a while. Then I started using it as background music in my YouTube videos.
And people started asking where they could get it.
I'll be real with you: I could not have imagined that. These lyrics are so personal. They're my fears, my doubts, my version of what it feels like to be an artist who isn't sure yet if she's allowed to call herself one. I made this for me. The idea that it touches other people — that it tickles something in them the same way it does in me — genuinely surprises me every time.
So. Here it is.
She's called The Girl In Ultramarine. She's 2.5 hours of lyrical bossa nova, and every song is built around what actually happens when you sit down to make art.
Each track is followed by an instrumental version of the track. Not ambient filler. It’s subconscious repetition. When you hear the same melody, your subconscious mind will fill in those affirmations, while the music settles into the background and doesn’t’ demand your focus.
Every step of the way, this music is something that's paying attention to where you are in your session.
Here's What's Happening While You Create
The album has three movements.
They're designed to mirror what actually happens in a real creative session.
Act One — Just Show Up
The tempo is slow but steady. The energy is gentle. The lyrics are written for the version of you that still isn't totally sure you're allowed to call yourself an artist.
Songs about walking into the studio. About picking up the brush even when you don't feel ready.
It’s like a friend sitting down next to you and saying: I see you. You're doing it. That's enough.
Act Two — Into the Flow
Here's where it gets interesting.
The tempo builds. The rhythm deepens. And the lyrics shift. Layered now with affirmations and what I can only describe as hypnotic suggestion. Lines reminding you to trust the process. To take a step back. To let the painting breathe.
By leaps and bounds, Act Two is the section I hear the most feedback about. Because it's where people notice they've stopped second-guessing themselves.
See, there's this loop that runs in the background while you're painting. The "is this good enough, am I good enough, does any of this matter?" loop. Your hands are busy, but your brain is doing that.
Act Two is designed to interrupt it. While you work. Before you get a chance to start doubting yourself, the lyrics are there, supporting you.
The more you listen, the more it works — you're essentially training yourself to associate this music with being in flow.
Act Three — Having it All
This is the part I'm most proud of. But these songs were also the hardest for me to write.
The session winds down. The lyrics zoom way, way out. Your body of work growing beyond you. Collectors finding your work. Your voice becoming something recognizable.
And at the end of act three your painting is on a museum wall.
And it belongs there.
Wait, isn't this on YouTube for free?
Yes. And I want it to be.
I shared it there first because I wanted it out in the world. If it helps someone's creative session, that matters to me. It started as music just for me, then as music in my video. People asked for the full thing, so here it is. You can just use this page to listen to it anytime you’d like.
But here's the thing about ads.
An ad in the middle of Act Two is not exactly ideal. Unless you are a Premium YouTube user, youtube is going to show ads on this video, which will break the whole hypnotic trance flow energy we’re going for. The whole point is unbroken immersion. That's hard to get on YouTube.
The download version is $25. That gets you:
✦ The full 2.5-hour video experience, ad-free, with lyrics on screen
✦ The complete MP3 album — all the songs, yours to keep, both with lyrics and the instrumental versions.
✦ No buffering. No Wi-Fi required. No algorithm deciding what plays next.
It's yours. For whatever creative session comes next.
Instant delivery after purchase.
You'll receive a link to the video experience and your MP3 files.
About Donna
I'm Donna Fox. I'm a Las Vegas-based artist publicly documenting my transition from hobbyist to professional artist… every messy, real step of it.
I created this playlist for myself, because I wanted positive affirmation-filled music to create to, with an easy bossa nova feel that makes me want to dance. It’s with great pleasure and pride that I share it with you today.
The Girl In Ultramarine is actually Album 11 on my list. There are 19 more planned…all in different musical genres. I made this one first because I needed it the most — and it still surprises me that other people need it too.
Frequently Asked Questions
From how the music is made to what’s bossa nova… you can find your answers here…
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The lyrics are mine — completely. Every song is built from my own affirmations, my own fears as an artist, the specific things I needed to hear while I was working. I wrote all of it.
The music itself is created using AI music tools, which I use to build the bossa nova arrangements around my lyrics.
While I have played a few instruments, I'm not a well-trained musician. What I am is someone who knew exactly what she wanted the music to feel like and kept working until it felt that way.I've talked about AI as a creative collaborator on my YouTube channel, and that's genuinely how I think about it here. The soul of this album is in the words and the vibes that I direct. The AI helped me bring the sound to life.
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The download is delivered as a link. The entire video experience is one long MP4 so you can enjoy the lyrics and flow unbroken.
The MP3s are audio files divided by track that you can add to any music app, phone, or device. You’ll get both the lyrical versions and instrumentals music. -
No. The video opens naturally on your computer, and the MP3s work anywhere you play music.
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Yes- although there have been times when I stopped it sooner, a good painting session does not stop at 30 minutes. She doesn't either.
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Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian jazz that is warm, rhythmic, with nylon-string guitar. The lyrics are in English (with the song Como Agua (like water) a notable excecption).
Each song is followed by the instrumental version of the song, to give the affirmations room to breathe.It's present enough to feel like company without pulling your focus away from the work.
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You might not need to. If the YouTube version is working for you, keep using it.
But if you've ever had an ad drop in the middle of a session and felt the spell break — that's what this is for. And if you want to paint somewhere without Wi-Fi, the MP3s go with you. Also: the more consistently you listen, the more your brain starts to associate this music with being in flow. That's easier to build when you own it and control when you play it.
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The download is for personal use. But you can absolutely tell them about it and send them here, or directly to the video on youtube. Just copy and paste this link to send them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09n6QQ-9HTI
Feedback from My Friends
(these are biased opinions from my friends that love me 💜)
“I didn’t know I needed this so thank you for creating it…”
-Becca Y