I’ve spent more than two decades making things for other people—brands, campaigns, websites, experiences and stories. Somewhere along the way, I started writing songs again.
A playlist felt boring. A traditional songwriter website felt even worse.
Fake Paradise started with memories of old California travel—Catalina, faded resort brochures, family trips, places that somehow become more beautiful the farther away you get from them. Then it collided with everything else rattling around in my head: AI, virtual reality, nostalgia, grief, memory, low wages, the endless pursuit of monetary gain, and the increasingly strange idea that whatever we have—or whoever we are—is never quite enough.
And somewhere in there was the increasingly strange question of what “real” is going to mean in the future.
So I built a travel agency.
Meet Your Travel Agent
Lynn Chuba
Songwriter, Creative Director & Questionably Licensed Reality Broker
For more than two decades, Lynn Chuba has made a living turning ideas into things people can see, understand, remember and occasionally spend money on.
She’s been an art director, designer, creative director, UX designer, marketer, fashion person, Google person, nonprofit person and professional maker-of-things-that-did-not-exist-five-minutes-ago.
Eventually, making things for this reality stopped being enough. So she started writing songs again. Then she built somewhere fun for them to live.
Fake Paradise™: part songwriting portfolio, part travel agency, part interactive story and part increasingly questionable attempt to determine whether reality was all that great to begin with.
Lynn writes country and Americana songs about memories, love, grief, bad decisions, good dogs, long roads and the people and places we carry with us. She is an ASCAP songwriter and lifelong believer that the best creative work should make you feel something—even if occasionally that something is: “Wait. What the fuck is happening?”
- Current Reality
- Functional
- Creative Experience
- 20+ years
- PRO
- ASCAP
- Authorized Dimensional Travel
- Pending
- Preferred Transportation
- Grey Tacoma
- Emotional Baggage
- Within federal limits
- Dogs
- Reggie, her forever love, and the Ruthless lil' Ruth Anne
- Sanity
- Relative to current global conditions
- Customer Complaints
- Forward to Sagittarius Engineering
Please enjoy your stay.
Management accepts no responsibility for tearful memories, laughing out loud, catchy songs or alternate lives that follow you home.
