{"id":6611,"date":"2024-08-16T21:31:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T21:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=6611"},"modified":"2024-08-16T21:32:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T21:32:01","slug":"interview-rebekka-louise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/16\/interview-rebekka-louise\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Rebekka Louise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/3gmCj3uOvqgbYAeSMGnpGf?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1716227161.476204-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1716227161.476204-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1716227161.476204-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1716227161.476204-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1716227161.476204-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1716227161.476204-45x60.jpg 45w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1716227161.476204-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><b>Hello Rebekka Louise how are you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hiii! I am very good!! How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m very well thanks for asking!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Congratulations on the release of your album \u2018Shame Is An Old Friend\u2019. How does it feel?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so exciting. Honestly, it\u2019s always scary releasing music since it\u2019s so personal. But I am so grateful for all the wonderful response I have gotten, so it\u2019s really been such an amazing experience. And it\u2019s also a piece of work I am extremely proud of so I am very happy to finally show it off<\/p>\n<p><b>The title is thought provoking. What\u2019s the story behind it?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I was originally going to name the album something along the lines of \u2018It\u2019s you, not me\u2019 or \u2018It\u2019s not me, It\u2019s you\u2019, but I just wasn\u2019t that sold on it. But then I wrote \u2018Leave Me Be\u2019 and the lyric \u2018shame is an old friend\u2019, and I just KNEW that needed to be the title. It felt like it perfectly encapsulated what the album represents. I feel like there\u2019s so much stigma surrounding mental health, essentially making someone who struggles feel shameful about their struggles. So the album title really represents that shame that\u2019s constantly weighing you down, just like this toxic friend constantly reminding you of all your mistakes, making you feel terrible, but you just can\u2019t seem to cut them out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>What were the most challenging and easiest parts of recording the album?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Recording vocals are an absolute pain sometimes, and it\u2019s tiring to record vocals for so many songs as well. It can also sometimes be a bit boring going through vocal comps and selecting recordings that sounds good together &#8211; but oh well it has to be done haha. I must admit, that the lyrics for this album just poured out of me. It was such an easy and organic process, where the lyrics just clicked into place. I also had a lot of fun with finding lyrics that linked between songs where they would answer or comment on things mentioned in another song.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s your favourite track?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I love \u2018it was beautiful\u2019 and \u2018Leave Me Be\u2019. I think they\u2019re both such vulnerable, but at the same time simple songs &#8211; but their simplicity makes them more stunning and interesting in a way? There\u2019s no overcomplicated productions or very metaphorical songwriting, but rather more of a storytelling of events and how those events made you feel, and I think that\u2019s very beautiful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>This was created originally as part of a master\u2019s project. What did you learn during the process?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This album is what really gave me confidence as a producer. I got to be so creative and just allow myself to do whatever I felt like, which was liberating and so much fun. It really pushed me as a songwriter as well. I have always been pretty honest with my lyrical expression, but never this blunt and confrontational. I have also never written songs that are a part of a bigger project and need to have a sort of cohesiveness between them &#8211; which was a new challenge that changed my creative process a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>You\u2019re an artist from Norway now living in London how did it all begin for you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It began with me having guitar lessons at school at 14, and then I started writing songs around the same time. And I just kept on writing so many songs, but I didn\u2019t really know what to do with them. I would have gigs around Oslo and play some smaller festivals, but I knew so little about the industry and didn\u2019t really have any ways to get my music produced and published. Then I compiled an album for my moms birthday, and I fell in love with production and the creative process behind the making of a song &#8211; not just the writing process. So I decided, a bit on a whim really, that I wanted to move to London to study Musical Theatre &#8211; I was also dancing a lot at the time so wanted to combine my love for singing and dancing. And then do music production on the side, slowly figuring it all out. After my bachelors I realised I couldn\u2019t just do music production on the side, it was taking me too long to learn it by myself and I really wanted my music released &#8211; so I decided to study music production, so I could do it all myself &#8211; and here we are!<\/p>\n<p><b>What did you listen to growing up?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ABBA all day every day. I was obsessed!<\/p>\n<p><b>You recorded the album primarily at home and Tileyard Studios what was your favourite part of the process?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I absolutely loved playing around with all the weird sounds I found in Logic. There was so much creativity and just exploring that went into making this album, which was very very fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>It\u2019s been four years since the release of your debut single \u201cOne Step Ahead\u201d what have you learned about yourself?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Gosh, so so much. Sometimes is feels as if I\u2019m almost relearning things, moving away from home and being thrown into a completely new environment results in a lot of growing up and figuring out how to do things as you become more independent with all these new adult responsibilities. But I would say the most important thing I have learnt is accepting, or trying to accept, my flaws and allowing myself to not be perfect all the time. We can be so hard on ourself sometimes, and it\u2019s very rewarding to just allow yourself the grace to have a shit day. And setting boundaries! Boundaries are so important.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>What are you listening to at the moment?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ooo, at the moment I am listening to a lot of Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift. And I obviously have \u2018shame is an old friend\u2019 on repeat!<\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s next for you?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I am currently working on an EP, that is a kind of extension of the album. But, all the songs are in Norwegian so it\u2019s a bit of new territory for me. It\u2019s the first time I have written in Norwegian actually, so very excited for this new release!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Rebekka Louise how are you? Hiii! I am very good!! How are you doing? I&#8217;m very well thanks for asking! Congratulations on the release of your album \u2018Shame Is An Old Friend\u2019. How does it feel? It\u2019s so exciting. Honestly, it\u2019s always scary releasing music since it\u2019s so personal. But I am so grateful &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6612,"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":[161,191,40,174,218,247,143,30,310,142,177,73,150,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-alternative","category-dance","category-electronica","category-folk","category-interview","category-london","category-music","category-norway","category-producer","category-rock","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-uk","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611","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=6611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6613,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions\/6613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}