Muse Chronicle

Seth Schaeffer is a filmmaker turned composer. He’s spent years perfecting the art of wearing an emotional armor we all wear to survive in a world that demands conformity. His journey feels achingly familiar: the professional artist who’s got what he wanted but lost himself in the process of getting to it. After years of creating what others wanted to hear, Schaeffer found himself exhausted by his own success, haunted by the question of who he really was beneath all those carefully constructed personas.

“The scariest thing we can do is stop running from the person we’re meant to become.”

“I Found A Monster” lives in that beautiful, devastating space where pop meets alternative darkness, drawing from the cinematic grandeur of Hans Zimmer and the melancholic vulnerability of Billie Eilish. What started as tinkering with a broken three-string bass became something much bigger, a collaboration that brought Emily Hatch’s ghostly vocals from New York and string arrangements that ache with longing.

The song redefines what we think monsters are. Schaeffer presents his inner demon as the truest part of himself. The track builds this tension between exhaustion and awakening, between the safety of conformity and the terrifying freedom of being real. His lyrics put together the universal experience of living someone else’s version of your life, of coloring within lines that were never meant for you, of slowly dying while everyone applauds your performance.

For anyone who’s ever felt like they’re suffocating under the weight of expectations, whether from family, industry, or society, this song feels like oxygen.

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