The Digital Sanctuary
Ashley Elizabeth Wilson featuring Sierra West
From The Star, A Cinderella Story Soundtrack
The Star, A Cinderella StorySoundtrack · coming soon
About TimeThe single · on both albums
The Magic of ChristmasVinyl LP · spring 2027
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About Time, the single, as an MP3 download.
The Magic of Christmas, the album, on vinyl. It ships in spring 2027.
About Time here, and Sierra West’s album Hold Your Fire, with It’s About Time on it, on her own Bandcamp. What you pay her goes straight to her.
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How it was made
Originally written by Sierra West as "It’s About Time," the song was reimagined as "About Time" by Ashley Elizabeth Wilson (The Last Lamperti) for the opera The Star: A Cinderella Story. Incorporating lyrics from West's original composition alongside a newly re-recorded lead vocal by Wilson, the production harnessed an AI-assisted workflow to blend their naturally similar vocal timbres into a seamless duet.
Their collaboration took root in a weekly support group for female musicians—a tight-knit community that had itself just been saved from closing down by a generous donor organization. Their bond deepened through mutual adversity. In late September, Sierra was traveling to Oswego, New York, to pick up a custom Santa Cruz guitar built in memory of her late luthier father when she survived a near-fatal rollover crash near Syracuse. Recovering at home in Connecticut in a neck brace alongside her injured greyhound, Dylan, she reconnected with Ashley Elizabeth, who was simultaneously navigating a severe Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) flare-up that caused near-total loss of speech.
For Sierra, hearing the reimagined track during her recovery provided both physical and emotional relief. While acknowledging that AI in music is "highly controversial," she called the technology "magic," noting that for an artist facing physical impairment, having access to such tools is invaluable: "it would give me hope for life again." Listening to Wilson’s rendition felt like a complete renewal:
"It was like the song had a life of its own and was like born again and flying off to a new dimension that was colorful and sparkly and beautiful... I was like, 'Wow, that song's not sitting in the mud anymore.' Especially being in this much pain, I was pain-free the whole time I watched your video with my song."
Sierra emphasized that hearing her work radically transformed "does not take away from where it originated in any means whatsoever," highlighting the human vision, care, and intention Wilson poured into shaping the piece. Created across states and through severe physical trials, "About Time" stands as a testament to creative resilience, friendship, and the power of technology to keep an artist's voice soaring when the body falters.
The original
It's About Time, from Sierra West's album Hold Your Fire.
Photo from Lucky Souls Productions' video of Sierra at The Outer Space, Hamden, 2011.
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You might wonder why you can’t find this on Spotify or YouTube? The plain truth is, the digital landscape has grown entirely too tangled for independent creators without institutional backing.
Both Ashley Elizabeth Wilson and Sierra West had their music taken to train AI without permission—this track included. As it stands, the artist profile for Sierra West’s name has been claimed on Spotify, leaving the real artist locked out. And the same has happened to Ashley Elizabeth in a similar form, also having her own music trained on AI.
So we welcome you to a new content experience where we can tell you the difference between what is human, what is machine assisted and what is purely technology. It’s a return to the warmth of record players, CD players and the iPod days: real ownership, gracious support for the artist, and art shared from one fan to the next.
About Timeout now
In conversation
Ashley Elizabeth and Sierra West talk About Time and this new version…
Meet the artist
Sierra West
Singer-songwriter. Her story, her songs and her albums, on her own page.
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Ashley Elizabeth Wilson
Singer, songwriter and filmmaker, known as The Last Lamperti. She sings on About Time and is making The Star, A Cinderella Story, a cinematic opera. She is also the creator of DRIFT the Opera. Check out more of Ashley Elizabeth's work on The Ark of Return.
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Sierra West
A folk singer-songwriter, born in Connecticut and raised in Boston. She was named Best Singer-Songwriter at the 2014 San Diego Music Awards, and her songs have been on ABC's Resurrection and Bravo's Southern Charm.
Scan the code with your phone, or press Support, and send Sierra what you like. Her original album, Hold Your Fire, has It's About Time on it, with digital downloads on her own Bandcamp page.
Chris Jordan
A photographer and artist. His series Midway and his film Albatross (2018) show birds on a Pacific island whose bodies are filled with plastic; his newer work, Beauty Emerging, is made in Patagonia.
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Chris Jordan is on Patreon, from $1 a month, and members get special offers on his prints. To buy a print, contact his gallery at cj@chrisjordan.com.
Chris Wilson
A musician, and Ashley Elizabeth's twin brother. His music will be on the Christmas album, and he's featured in The Stars of America.
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About Time featured in The Star, A Cinderella Story, the cinematic opera by Ashley Elizabeth Wilson.
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About Time
Ashley Elizabeth Wilson featuring Sierra West