{"id":5614,"date":"2023-07-17T18:59:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=5614"},"modified":"2023-07-17T19:10:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:10:51","slug":"blog-interview-katie-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/blog-interview-katie-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog interview: Katie Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/katie-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5615\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Hello Good Times\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3CFB1HmLOjxxy7Y9hLC2nf?si=rzHcHhV-Qra2wRw5TKAdSA&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><b>Hello Katie, how are you?&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m good! Thanks for taking the time to interview me!<\/p>\n<p><b>Congratulations on the release of \u201cHello Good Times.\u201d How does it feel?&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much! I wrote this song years ago, so it\u2019s great to finally have it out.<\/p>\n<p><b>It does what it says on the tin, it\u2019s a feel-good song &#8211; what\u2019s the story behind it?&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I wrote the song back in the summer of 2018. I had seen a sweatshirt at Old Navy that said \u201cHello Good Times\u201d on it and thought that\u2019d be a great title for a song. From there, I just thought of summer scenarios that would be considered a good time and rolled with it.<\/p>\n<p><b>You\u2019re an artist from South Dakota. How did it all begin for you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I grew up listening to \u201890s country, specifically Shania Twain, Deana Carter, and Faith Hill. I was always putting on concerts to their albums in my living room or bedroom. And then when I discovered Taylor Swift\u2019s music, I knew I wanted to learn how to play guitar and write my own songs. I knew that\u2019s what I wanted to do with my life.<\/p>\n<p><b>What did you listen to growing up?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I listened to all things country. When I was really little, it was \u201890s country. And then I also listened to whatever was playing on the local country stations, such as Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, etc.<\/p>\n<p><b>You studied Music Business at Belmont in Nashville. What was the biggest thing that surprised you about the industry side of things?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I think that before moving to Nashville and going to Belmont I never realized just how many areas there are in the industry. There\u2019s not just labels and publishers. There are also managers, booking agents, etc., and each of those are like their own little worlds with even more areas within them.<\/p>\n<p><b>You\u2019ve become part of the legendary songwriting community in Nashville. What\u2019s been a big inspiration for you there?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There are so many amazing people that I have met within the songwriting community, and it\u2019s been great getting to write with different people, but also to hear other writers play their songs at writers\u2019 rounds. Nashville isn\u2019t just country music, it\u2019s all kinds, so it\u2019s cool to see everyone doing their own thing and being able to learn from and be inspired by others.<\/p>\n<p><b>You\u2019ve been on tour. What was that like for you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It was great! I got to go back to South Dakota and play in my home state, which I love. I don\u2019t get out to the western side of the state very often, but it\u2019s so beautiful out there, and I was glad I got to explore that area again while I was out there playing shows.<\/p>\n<p><b>Post pandemic: what have you learned about yourselves in the last three years?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I think the pandemic taught people, me included, that you don\u2019t have to be going 100mph all the time and that it\u2019s important to take breaks. I\u2019ve tried to make sure that I don\u2019t overfill my schedule to where I don\u2019t have any time to rest, because resting is important for mental and physical health. I believe it also can help with creativity since you\u2019re not burning yourself out if you\u2019re making time to rest.<\/p>\n<p><b>Did you pick up any new skills?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>During the pandemic, I definitely made more time for working out than I had previously. However, I either sprained or broke something in my foot when attempting to go for a run one time and then never got back into a routine after having to take time for it to heal. That is something I\u2019d like to find time for again though.<\/p>\n<p><b>Being in Nashville, what are your three favourite things about it?<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I love the community that I\u2019ve found through going to writers\u2019 rounds in Nashville. It\u2019s where I\u2019ve found most of my closest friends and collaborators, and I love how supportive everyone is of each other.<\/li>\n<li>I love living in a place where so much history has taken place. All of the greats of country music have started out and built their careers here, and I think that\u2019s pretty cool.<\/li>\n<li>The food is great in Nashville. There are so many great places to grab a bite to eat. My favorite is probably Burger Up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>What are you listening to at the moment?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s newest re-record, <i>Speak Now (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/i>, came out the first Friday of July, and so that\u2019s been on repeat a lot lately.<\/p>\n<p><b>What are you looking forward to next?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I have even more music that I\u2019ll be putting out this year, so I\u2019m looking forward to getting to share more new music with people this year.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-435x435.jpeg 435w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-60x60.jpeg 60w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Katie, how are you?&nbsp; I\u2019m good! Thanks for taking the time to interview me! Congratulations on the release of \u201cHello Good Times.\u201d How does it feel?&nbsp; Thank you so much! I wrote this song years ago, so it\u2019s great to finally have it out. It does what it says on the tin, it\u2019s a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5620,"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":[225,52,247,132,251,142,73,150,243,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country","category-guitar","category-interview","category-lyricist","category-nashville","category-producer","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-u-s","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614","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=5614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5623,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions\/5623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}