Not really thinking – trying to learn about who I am and not trying to protect who I thought I was or who I think I am.
I would say that when I was writing the album I really tried to focus on not becoming a caricature of myself. What do you want people to take from your music and you as an artist? I’ve been a fan of hers since whenever she came out. I’d love to work with this girl NAO out of the UK. They’re just kind of saying what comes naturally to them and that really inspires me.Īnybody you’ve been eager to collaborate with? There are a lot of people who are making music that’s resonating with me because they aren’t really trying too hard.
#Gallant talking to myself lyrics how to#
I still remain a huge How To Dress Well fan. It really captured the spirit I think they were coming from. I don’t know if they put their album out yet but “So Much It Hurts” was incredible. I’ve been a little bit out of touch for the past six months or so but I’m one of Shura’s biggest fans.
Who are some of your contemporaries you are really digging? And it was so far away from my birthplace that it felt like a new frontier. It just kind of made sense and felt like home. I landed in LA and I just really saw a diverse topography and an open-ended narrative for me to form my creative self. Psychologically that gets to you at some point. You take yourself from Point A to Point B, you’re not getting in the system. There’s a lot more freedom, it’s a lot more self-directed. When I visited LA for the first time I realized that it is a major city, but it’s different, it has a different feel. I was really focused on going to New York when I was a kid because I’m from the suburbs and that’s what you do, you go to the big city. Was it just the music scene or something more specific that drew you to LA? You were born and raised in Maryland and then moved to New York to go to NYU. I think that a lot of photography of me and even some other things online about me are just me trying to be the most honest version of myself. I guess I’m just focused on making sure that everything I’m putting out there to represent me is something that I genuinely like and is really honest and coming from a true place. Yeah, I really like the 90s kind of Fujifilm look. You’ve cultivated a very specific aesthetic on social media: a lot of stark, raw behind-the-scenes photography of your life that seems to have a very isolated look to it. I’ve been enjoying it and I feel like I’ve been able to focus on digging deeper and giving a more vulnerable experience on stage. It’s liberating to perform material that I’ve been working on for a long time. I did a lot of shows before the album was out, so it’s jarring to see people who know the music. What has the audience reaction been like since the album has been out? It’s a constant learning experience and I’m happy to be a part of it. Performing the album is just different every time, so with each new audience everything takes on a different meaning for me. It’s really interesting to observe myself in new situations I’ve never been in. What kind of mindset are you in right now as all this is happening? You’ve been on the festival circuit and now you’re headlining a tour. You get the feeling that there’s a commitment and a willingness to challenge himself to be more emotionally vulnerable with his lyrics and his voice at every turn. The confessional soul of “Talking to Myself” and “Bourbon” wants to let you into Gallant’s world no matter how exposed that makes him. Comparisons to Prince are inevitable on tracks like "Episode" with its funky bassline and his signature sultry sounding falsetto. The album is the result of someone knowing what he wants to say and making sure he says it the way he wants it to be said. His sound draws inspiration from influences as diverse as Janet Jackson and Phil Spector and Radiohead, driven by his desire to push the genre into a realm of something His debut album Ology is a wholehearted R&B manifesto that suggests you can still find optimism and hope among self-doubt and insecurity. From performing swoonworthy covers of “Hotline Bling” with Sufjan Stevens to a standing ovation on The Tonight Show, or captivating the sunburnt Coachella crowd with a transcendent rendition of his breakout single “Weight in Gold” with none other than Seal, it’s hard not to think that he is a man on the brink. All of these things have been said about Gallant.
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