Natalie abbott: chasing the loudest version of herself

For Natalie Abbott, music has never been something casual.

It is instinctive, all-consuming, and impossible to ignore; the kind of thing that settles into your chest early and never really leaves. For as long as she can remember, singing has been there, but once she started school, it began to take on a deeper meaning. What may have started as a childhood love quickly became something essential, something she returned to again and again in her bedroom, at the piano, for hours on end.

Now, as she prepares to move to Nashville and step fully into the next chapter of her life, Natalie is doing what so many people dream of but hesitate to do, going for it immediately, and with her whole heart.

“I’m rock n roll all the way. If someone hears my voice, I hope that they linger and feel something deeper than just the song.”

That desire to make people feel something sits at the center of everything she does. Whether she is performing, recording, covering a song she loves, or writing something entirely her own, Natalie leads with emotion first. When she sings, she does not overthink it. Instead, she lets herself fall into the music completely, trusting instinct over calculation.

“I try to focus on the music, like the song I’m singing in the moment. After that, it’s pretty mindless. Once I get into the groove, I don’t need to think about much.”

That ease is part of what makes her presence so compelling. There is emotion in her voice, but it never feels forced. It feels lived in, natural, direct, and unafraid of intensity.

Her artistic influences reflect that same relationship to scale and feeling. Natalie is drawn to the legends, Stevie Nicks, Elvis, The Eagles, The Rolling Stones, artists who made rock music feel larger than life. At the same time, she points to Lana Del Rey as a major inspiration, especially for the way she turns emotion and aesthetic into something immersive.

“Rock is a very expansive genre, but I can’t get enough of it. And I’ll always return to Lana Del Rey. The way she encapsulates such big emotion and aesthetic into her music is something I’m very inspired by.”

That love for emotional worldbuilding also shows up in the way she presents herself online. Her content feels intimate, stripped back, and personal, but that softness is intentional. When she first started TikTok, Natalie wanted anyone who came across her to feel like she was singing to them, not at them. More than anything, she wanted the focus to stay on the music itself.

She is still learning how to showcase herself online, but that intimacy has already become part of her voice as an artist, a way of inviting people in without losing the heart of what she does.

For Natalie, covers and original songs are not in competition with each other. In fact, the songs she loves enough to cover often end up feeding the music she writes herself. Both are reflections of who she is, and both belong to her process.

“I write all the time. The songs I love and cover are the ones that inspire my own music, so I think they’re both equally ‘me.’”

Her creative process is fluid, never rigid. A lyric might begin with an offhand phrase someone says. A song might come together quickly, or it might take months to finish. The only constant is language. Natalie says it almost always starts with lyrics, with words she has been holding onto, collecting, and trying to make sense of.

“Sometimes someone says a phrase I like, and then boom, it’s a song. Sometimes it takes months to finish something. It’s a fluid process, and I don’t really have it down to a science, lol. But it usually always starts with lyrics, I write billions of words.”

That emotional openness extends into what she feels most compelled to express right now. Natalie speaks honestly about feeling anger, sadness, passion, and hope all at once, about looking at the world as it is and trying to make something meaningful out of all of it. Her music, like her voice, seems to hold space for every color of emotion at once.

“I feel a lot of anger lately, a lot of passion about the world right now, what it’s coming to. I feel sadness about it too, but also hope, lol, every color of emotion.”

There is something refreshing about the clarity with which she talks about pursuing music seriously. Natalie does not romanticize it. She knows it asks for everything. To her, this path is not something you can approach halfway.

“You’ve gotta want it entirely. Gotta eat, sleep, and breathe that. It’s all I think about, all I do anything for. I don’t think you can half-ass your dream.”

That mindset is part of what made her decision to move to Nashville feel so immediate. The idea arrived, and once it did, she could not let it go. Rather than waiting for a perfect moment, she recognized that the urgency itself was the sign.

“I knew now was the time as soon as the idea popped into my head, haha. I couldn’t shake it, and I knew I’d be missing out if I didn’t go for it immediately.”

Still, Spokane remains an important part of her story. Natalie speaks about the city with honesty and affection, acknowledging how difficult it can be to make money doing music here while also crediting it for shaping her growth. It may not have been the easiest place to build in, but it gave her experience, perspective, and a starting point she clearly carries with her.

“Spokane is not an easy place to make money doing music, haha. At least starting out, it’s tough. But I cherish every experience I’ve had here and how this place has allowed me to grow. Love it to death.”

As she looks ahead, Natalie is most excited by the idea of connection, of meeting more people who are driven by the same thing, of playing loud music, of stepping further into the life she has imagined for herself. The nerves are there too, of course. She admits she is nervous about pretty much everything else. But hesitation does not seem to have much power over her.

“Not gonna stop me though”

That may be the clearest way to understand where Natalie Abbott is right now, not fearless, but willing. Willing to leap, willing to be seen, willing to build a life around the thing she loves most.

And when she talks about success, her definition is beautifully simple. It is not rooted in excess or spectacle. It is not about becoming untouchable. It is about being able to play music for people that want to hear it, to have fun, to sing, to rock, to sweat, and to mean every second of it.

“To me, success is playing music for people that want to hear it. I don’t need to make a billion dollars, I just want to have fun and sing and rock and sweat.”

For an artist standing on the edge of something new, that kind of clarity feels powerful. Natalie Abbott is not chasing polish for the sake of it. She is chasing feeling. Volume. Movement. Truth. The loudest version of herself.

And in this next chapter, that seems to be exactly where she is headed.

Follow Natalie Abbott’s journey as she steps into this next chapter via Instagram @natalie__abbott and TikTok at @natalie_abbott.