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What’s it all mean? Debut EP 20 years in the making It’s been a long and windy road with many sidetracks, but Lee Gailer has finally released an EP of songs as relevant today as when she wrote them 20 years ago. What’s it all mean? is Gailer’s debut EP of four songs written at a time in her life when she was finding her voice from within south-east Queensland’s misogynistic surfie culture. Gailer was a young mum with a baby when she wrote her first song Be my baby, inspired by a simple three-chord riff strummed by a friend. Waiting 4 the boys followed shortly after, with Gailer’s unique chord progressions and quirky lyrics revealing promise as an original artist. Life has its twists and turns, and reality got in the way of Gailer’s dreams of being a ‘rock star’. Crowded room and Your disguise were written a little later - by then she was a single mum about to embark on a career in journalism. Gailer spent the next decade using her position in the editorial room to promote musicians