So Much More Than This

*So Much More Than This* is the third single off of Grace VanderWaal’s debut album, *Just The Beginning*.

## The making of *So Much More Than This*

Grace told *MTV* “I was in the car going to the producing session, and the radio was on, It's all about love and hatred and people who are mean to you — just seems like all songs on the radio are like that." *MTV* says “That frustration led VanderWaal to the studio, where she started working on what she wanted to communicate through the chorus hook. One of the song's co-writers spent the time scrolling through Instagram, leading VanderWaal to include the lyric ‘close your phone and breathe in the air’ in the chorus.”

Grace told *MTV* "Everyone thinks that it's about technology, and that was a split decision to put that in just because I saw the producer on their phone. It evolved into its final version, with an extremely positive message in mind: ‘You just gotta find what makes you happy.’”

*So Much More Than This* was produced by Gregg Wattenberg and Derek Fuhrmann.

## The music video, lyric video, and live performances

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Kevin Slack directed the music video for *So Much More Than This*.

*Billboard* says “In the video, the 13-year-old VanderWaal -- who was just honored with the Rising Star Award at Billboard Women in Music -- expresses her child-like spirit. She starts out indoors, clearly bored and frustrated attempting to write a song no avail, as crumpled pages of dead ideas pile up next to her. She steps into the studio to presumably record *So Much More Than This* when she breaks out of the room (literally) and suddenly finds herself in a bright green open field.

She takes off running, with so much more to explore. She sees purple smoke billowing off in the distance, and when she follows it, she finds a puppy (which happens to be her real-life pup, Frankie) sprinting toward her. Frankie follows VanderWaal as she continues to explore, eventually comes across a chest full of long-lost notes. One reads: ‘Happiness is...being the ultimate you at all times, no matter what anyone else thinks. - Autumn Lyle.’

Inspired by what she has found, VanderWaal sits on a large collapsed tree trunk, finally able to write and properly express herself. Although it was all in her imagination, the video ends with VanderWaal opening her eyes to find herself back in the studio, happily ready to record.”

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Sit right here, chill, level low

Close your eyes and just let it flow

Right next to me I hear your heart beat, beat

When the dial turns up and the music starts playing

We don't realize in this society

Doesn't matter how your hair looks, or what they are thinking

Just, just what we are finding, oh

[Pre-Chorus]

Tap your foot and listen in

Ignore the world, let the music cave in

Close your phone and breathe in the air

You'll soon realize that there's something that is

[Chorus]

So much more than this

It is what it is

So much more than this

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (Hey)

So much more than this

It is what it is

So much more than this

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[Verse 2]

The whole crowd seems to like me now

'Cause I think I'm cool but back when I was in school

They found it very easy to hate me

Funny how always these times are changing

Back then it was so easy to shatter

But now in the end it doesn't really matter

[Pre-Chorus]

Tap your foot and listen in

Ignore the world, let the music cave in

Close your phone and breathe in the air

You'll soon realize that there's something that is

[Chorus]

So much more than this

It is what it is

So much more than this

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (Hey)

So much more than this

It is what it is

So much more than this

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[Bridge]

All of the talk and the talk from ya

Won't even matter when the lights come up

All of the talk and the talk from ya, hey

Open your eyes and just wake up

Do all the things that will matter to ya

Open your eyes and just wake up, woah

[Pre-Chorus]

Tap your foot and listen in

Ignore the world, let the music cave in

Close your phone and breathe in the air

You'll soon realize that there's something that is

[Chorus]

So much more than this

It is what it is

So much more than this

(Realize, oh, oh)

You'll soon realize that there's something that is

So much more than this

It is what it is

So much more than this

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[Outro]

So much more than this

It is what it is

So much more than this

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh