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How Morgxn Translated Independence & Hometown Trauma Into a Hero’s Journey With ‘Beacon’
The singer-songwriter breaks down his latest album, finding inspiration from the monomyth and how going independent changed his perspective on the music business.
The illustration Morgxn drew shows the cyclical structure of the monomyth, a blueprint for storytelling popularized by Joseph Campbell in which an archetypal protagonist sets out on a transformative journey, succeeds in a moment of climactic catastrophe, and returns home a changed person. Bill Lee passed a batch of anti-LGBTQ laws criminalizing drag performances and gender-affirming care for minors in 2023, Morgxn regularly attended protests against the rise of transphobia and promoted politicians fighting against the wave of bigotry faced by Tennesseans. Even in releasing Beacon and letting his audience finally take ownership of the music, Morgxn acknowledges that the beauty of the hero’s journey lies in its shape; the circle ensures that reaching the end of one story means arriving at the beginning of another.
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