I didn’t know people who could do it for me and, necessity is always a great instigator. I produced, made my beats, sang, all out of necessity. KF: At the beginning, I was self-contained. MM: You are a singer and a songwriter, but you are also a producer. The agenda started to become, “Oh, this isn’t just a song, there is an element of self-discovery that I am getting in touch with.” And, that felt very exciting for me. KF: I think it was my junior year of college. MM: At what point did you become emotionally invested in music? Songwriting, in many ways, is kind of like word puzzles–there was something about that process that clicked with me right away. KF: I’ve always enjoyed crossword puzzles. MM: How’d that first songwriting session turn out? I got into an argument with someone at my dorm and was like, “Why is this on the radio? I could write something like this.” And his response was: you’ve never even written a song. I’m 18, 19-years-old, and I think I know everything. But, I hadn’t consumed independent music, and then I was confronted with all of that. By the time I got to college, I was listening to stuff like the Beach Boys, the Talking Heads, the Beatles, that kind of stuff. Flay: Initially, it was sort of, goofing off. For our readers that don’t know, how did you begin your career? Melodics Magazine: You kind of stumbled upon music. She also talks about what fans can expect from her soon-to-be-released microcast. We dug into her artistic process, how necessity drove her to make her own beats and why she values collaboration. Flay, right before she headed off on her “The Solutions Tour,” to learn about her journey to making her newest album. The first single off her latest release, “Bad Vibes,” backed by a pop-rock, hip-hop sound, is a song about learning to let go of the negative things in your life. “In between, we get to celebrate all the gloriously different sides of an artist who resists getting boxed up in one genre,” writes The Guardian. She “starts her third studio CD with the wonderfully autobiographical statement song “ I Like Myself (Most of the Time) ” and ends with a wistful tune about her father, “ DNA ,” wrote the Chicago Tribune. For me, what I aim to do is figure out how I can approximate the safety of my parents’ basement but add the creativeness and expertise of talented producers.”įrom the sounds of Solutions, and the accolades it has received from music critics, it appears K.Flay’s modus operandi has worked. “Everyone is different and everyone wants different things out of their creative environment. “These studios are embedded in home environments, where there is a lack of pretentiousness,” says the Illinois native. She recorded part of it in Nashville, at a studio a friend built on his countryside property and the rest in Los Angeles, at producer Tommy English’s back house/studio. It’s no coincidence that, when working on her latest effort, Solutions, released by Night Street/Interscope Records on July 12, K.Flay made sure her recording spaces, albeit not her beloved basement, were appropriately comfy.
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“It’s definitely not a professional environment in any way, (but), I wrote, recorded and produced everything down there.” “I’ve mostly created in my parents’ basement,” says the 33-year-old K.Flay about her preference of making music in unpretentious environments, like the modest subterranean floor of her parents’ Brooklyn and then Bay Area homes-also her obvious comfort zone. Four mixtapes, two EPS, two full-length albums, and two Grammy noms later, she’s back with her third full-length release, Solutions, fusing pop, rock, hip-hop and electronic sounds. Fed up with the misogyny in rap, she grabbed a mic, laid down some tracks on her computer and dropped the (now extremely hard to get your hands on) mixtape Suburban Rap Queen.
K.Flay (née Khristine Meredith Flaherty) is a singer, songwriter, rapper, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who got her start making music in her dorm room at Stanford University.
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