{"id":2945,"date":"2021-03-19T08:09:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T08:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2021-03-19T08:09:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T08:09:48","slug":"blog-interview-buel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2021\/03\/19\/blog-interview-buel\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog interview: BUEL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"232\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed.png 232w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Buel - Smells Like Teen Spirit\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hUCbWwBSnLc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hello BUEL!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hi Derek!<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Congratulations on the release of &#8220;Smells Like Teen Spirit&#8221; how does it<br>feel?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thank you! I feel really happy. I came up with the idea a couple of years ago but didn&#8217;t think I would make it come alive. In a turn of events, it felt right to do so.&nbsp;<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The video for it is pretty epic, you directed it how did you come up<br>with the concept?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thank you! I just had this idea about an alien who&#8217;s stuck on earth for a while. Just wearing jeans, watching cartoons while snacking. I didn&#8217;t know if it should be a movie, or a music video but I really wanted to see it. Then by my understanding of Kurt&#8217;s pain and sarcasm, I thought that an alien being tested by trying to solve a strange rubik&#8217;s cube with its 3 fingers and it looking entertaining to the others would be the right way to metaphorize it. I think the fact that life is constantly testing us from where we aren&#8217;t strong at and it making us look stupid from the outside was an inspiring idea for me.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You are a singer\/songwriter from LA, how did it all begin for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It began when I realized eating pasta and music were equally the most fun things in the world for me when I was 4-5 years old.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What did you listen to growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bee Gees, The Beatles, ACDC, Rod Stewart, Sting were constantly playing in the house growing up. I didn&#8217;t choose to listen to them, but I definitely liked the background music that played. Then when I was 12 and joined my first band, the guitar player girl said that if I don&#8217;t know about Nirvana, I don&#8217;t know about music. So I met Nirvana, then from there my own taste started to evolve.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You started singing at the age of 4, what were your favourite songs to<br>sing at that age?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I didn&#8217;t have a favorite song, I just had these tracks programmed in some musical instruments at home and would hear my dad playing classical music all the time while working, so I would just try to sing idioglossia on the music that was there. I just remember thinking music was my new favorite toy. I didn&#8217;t know how to play with it, but I was just wandering around it with excitement, sometimes dancing and sometimes singing.&nbsp;<br><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You started performing live at the age of 12, what&#8217;s your favourite<br>memory of doing tha<em>t?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>My favorite memory was that, once I passed my first show, I felt liberated. I didn&#8217;t know if it would go anywhere as a career, but it definitely felt like a purpose that was bigger than anything else I could feel excited about.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2020 was a time to reflect for everyone, what did you learn most about<br>yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I think I felt that I had good crisis management. I shut myself down completely to the worry about the future and just decided to work on my every moment instead. All of a sudden my brain felt much happier than ever. The worry about the future and your mind wandering around instead of living the moment is such a torture and the fact that tomorrow was totally unknown no matter what I did, gave me a chance to focus on my present fully, maybe for the first time.&nbsp;<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You&#8217;re currently working on your EP, how&#8217;s it going?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It&#8217;s going great, the tracks are done. I&#8217;m still writing new songs and doing studio sessions, so I may add or replace a song or two, but I know the concept, and it&#8217;s coming out pretty soon!&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your favourite track from it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I recently challenged my brain about this whole &#8216;single&#8217; thing. So I thought about releasing a double. Two songs are my favorites: Small Talk and Persona, they&#8217;re like Yin-Yang, have a good balance together, so I want to release them together.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are the biggest challenges and triumphs you&#8217;re facing with it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The biggest challenge is that; songs are moments, but the production and the whole release process are thousands of moments. So by the time my moment for that song passes and I&#8217;m already in another mood, it turns out it&#8217;s now the time to release that song. So the released song and where my brain is at that moment doesn&#8217;t match.&nbsp;<br>The triumph is that I can manage my brain to focus on creating moments for those songs I&#8217;ve done a long time ago. I listen to them hundreds of times and get into my past brain, acting like the old me, it&#8217;s a strange exercise, but I feel like I&#8217;m nailing it.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You are from LA, what are your three favourite things about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Oh that warmth you feel, when you come back from the east coast cold. Artists all around. I love being challenged and being around people who work hard.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>COVID has had a big impact on the creative industry as a whole, what&#8217;s<br>kept you motivated?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I think creativity always wins, especially when it&#8217;s being limited, it works the best.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What artists are getting you excited at the moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I&#8217;m really excited about Billie Eilish, Dorian Electra, Christine and the Queens..<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s next for you?<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Putting out a lot of music and making sure people who should hear it hear it.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Smells Like Teen Spirit\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3FUwmCppVM3MctkaAkVmuN?si=I5yMJr3OTMC8oKJvsV-Qyw\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"1020\" data-height=\"1000\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/buelmusic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by buelmusic<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/buelmusic\/\">BUEL on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/buelmusic\/\">BUEL on Facebook <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello BUEL! Hi Derek! Congratulations on the release of &#8220;Smells Like Teen Spirit&#8221; how does itfeel? Thank you! I feel really happy. I came up with the idea a couple of years ago but didn&#8217;t think I would make it come alive. In a turn of events, it felt right to do so.&nbsp; The video &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,73,150,167,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-los-angeles","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-video","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}