February 27, 2026 • 34 mins
On this week's Friday In Service Of we continue to introduce you to the best up and coming artists. This week Steve Baltin sits down with DREAH, a dazzling Spanish-language artist based in Miami. This is both a special artist and special person, so hope you enjoy getting to know future superstar DREAH.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hey, it is Steve Balton and welcome to In service
of as we've been doing sometimes, I want to take
this Friday episode to introduce you to up and coming
new artists. And Drea, a Spanish singer from based in
Miami but from Puerto Rico, is an absolutely amazing artist
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that you will completely fall in love with as I did.
Her new song just out today, Hypnotizada, which means hypnotized
in English, is just one of those songs that you know,
it will make you feel stone, it will make you
feel good, it will make you feel something, but it's
(00:49):
one of those songs that you can't really forget. And
there's an amazing video to go with it as well.
Drea is an absolutely special artist, one of my favorites
coming up right now, and a wonderful person. So hope
you'll enjoyed this interview as much as I did. Now
(01:19):
we can talk about the song at the video. So
how much fun was it for you to like do
that video on the beach.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Like, Honestly, it wasn't going to happen that night. We
went to the beach because we were just going to
take the photo for the cover photo of a song,
and then like I had done my hair and whatever,
but like it really wasn't like video ready, but like
we got to the beach and it was like, hmm,
(01:48):
the light was the lighting was perfect. There was nobody
at the beach, and I was like, should we just
do it? And it was the most like I don't
want to say last do it like the other song
which I threw my makeup on, like and whatever, but
it was like so organic and just unplanned. But we
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were so excited, and me specifically I was I was like, okay,
what was just do it? And it turned out perfect.
After twenty years of editing a thousand videos that we
took that that evening, you know, I think that like
we I came up with like a video that actually
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captured what is the meaning of the.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Song is you know, and what's the meaning of the song?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well, the song talks. It's called hypnotized in English fiddle
he and Pisa, and it's almost it's like it's like
when you meet this person where you're just like completely
enamored by and hypnotized by, you know, and and like
(03:05):
like okay, I wanna, I wanna. There's no lyrics here
me at least, like I was always in relationships that
were like super high strung energy, like stress like, and
so it was like when you find like a relationship
(03:25):
where you kind of like feel that security in or whatever,
you just become completely I don't know, just like you
want to be fully devoured by that relationship. And it's like,
but you know, sometimes you feel almost kind of crazy
(03:45):
because it's like it's just too good to be true,
you know. Yeah, So I don't know if I answered
your question.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, how are you dead?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
What is it again?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
But what meaning to you?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah? The I guess the song when it means to
me is to just even when you when you feel
like that doubt or that craziness of like, I don't know,
is this too could be true? And sometimes relationships do
come into your lives lives for a reason. And I
(04:29):
think that this song really just kind of describes where
I am at today, where you know, it's it's finally
something that's healthy, something that you know, I'm hypnotized, but
in a good way. I'm not like controlled, you know. Yeah,
(04:49):
It's it's like I think that I'm in a stage
of my life where, you know, again, my oldies and
my other music is very like bad and discussing. And
it was so funny because I always want like my
parents or my friends. I was like, I released my
pe and they're like, did that really happen to this
music that you released? I'm like, no, because I'm ever
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always is super private about my love life. But really
it was the reality of what I was living. And
so it's nice to like proudly be releasing music of
what I'm going through and it's finally positive. You know,
it's not perfect, but it's positive and it's like and
it's feature and it's like confidence and yeah. So when
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we went to the beach to film that video, I
was just super super in love with how it turned
out because the sun was the ways were crashing, like
and I really wanted to capture like when you're like
hypnotized and so like in love with this person, you
can't stop thinking about them, and I wanted to like
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really capture like me being at the beach and like,
you know, just being in my thoughts, but not out
of sadness, just of like like I want you, you.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Know, right. Okay, So it's funny. Do you feel that
Do you feel you feel that the video? Did you
feel that as you were. Well, first of all, did
you write the song with other people?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I wrote it with. I actually wrote it with my
boyfriend because my boyfriend is a writer as well. He's
written a lot of beautiful songs and he actually does
poetry and he's a singer songwriter for his project. But
I met him doing music for my project, right. Yeah,
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So that song, we wrote it together in Mexico. So
it's funny. He kind of has to think sometimes turn
off like that the song is kind of about him,
and he kind of shuts it off in a way that, Okay,
how are we going to write this song about somebody?
That is what you're wanting to say. So we did
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it in Mexico. I re recorded it here in our
studio like two weeks ago. I got the final vocals
back in time, and then shot in the video just
a couple of days later.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And when you wrote the song, did you feel captured
it right away? Like sometimes I from talking to people
like you can write a song and it's just like
there immediately, Like I was just talking with the dude
from the band Squeeze the other day. You know, I've
written so many iconic songs, you know, black Coffee in
bed tempted pulling muscles from the show. They're considered, like,
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you know, among the greatest things of the songwriters. And
what's interesting is he was telling me there are some
songs that come in, you know, five minutes, and there
are other songs that we will literally like you know,
wrestle with to the point like you know, it's gonna
make you crazy. Like the Diamonds told me, like what
he was writing Sweet Caroline, because like that song came
(08:04):
from God. It was so easy. He's like, but when
I wrote I Am, I said, He's like that song
was going to kill one of us, either me or
the song was not going to make it, you know.
So was the ones that just was like it's like
so easy.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It was. It was I've had songs before where it's
taking me from time and I'm like, oh, God, like
to we try again, you know what I mean. So
like I totally get that feeling. But the thing is,
when I was it started off with the beat. I
think that like for me, when I start like feeling
the beat and like when I start syncing in with
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what the producer is doing and what I want, I
turned into like a you know, ultra focus and so
we were working on the beat and I was like,
I really want something super Britain, like super like sexy.
But we you know how I always have wanted my
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music to be like almost like this, like little Mermaid,
like being in the wooks, you know what I mean,
So well, like me solving the video at the beat,
I just wanted to be like this, like watered Goddess
is kind of what I wanted to give off. But
you know, working on the beat with a producer, it
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was like I have this vision in my head. So
then once you did the track, I loved it, and
we did a melody and it's like, for me, how
I do music is I start listening and then I
just throw different melodies, like I'll go from start to
finish of how I feel like the song will sound,
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and then you know, I'll maybe do one or two,
and based off of that what comes into my head
and what I like and what kind of resonates with me,
you go off again and we start writing on top
of those melodies, and yeah, can you see that song?
I just felt like it was super my element, like
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the song is bearing me with what I love to
listen to in the radio, with you know what I
love to make as an artist and so so yeah,
yeah that song it was good.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Right, Wait, important question. You say you wanted to be
a water goddess?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Why said that? But like, like I wanted it to be.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
There's not I was going to say, there's like Mermaid
movies you see in all this, So what for you
in this example of like, what's an example of someone
who was a water goddess?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I wanted I wanted to be like a seal? Like
I think I think about why the girl with a
long white hair from a Game of Thrones, what is her.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Name, Amania Bark?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, Amelia Clark, but what was your name? And Game
of Thrones?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I don't know. I fucking hate a Game of Thrones.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I've never seen that a day in my life. But like,
like just if you look at her, she looks very
like enchanted, enchanted and ethereal. And I was almost like that,
you know, and it's like I want these.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Things to me that anybody ever said in an interview. Really, yeah,
so I really wanted to be Amelia park Man. It
was really funny. I was interviewing her and Lena Hatty,
who played the Queen my Game of Thrones and I
was interviewing them for Rolling Stone, and Lena Hattie was
(11:51):
talking about how the fact that you know the show
was terrible. I mean I really loved it. I hated
it. It was so violent it felt struggletudus to me. I
interviewed fore cast members. She told me that they all
needed to drink to deal with the shell. But when
I was interviewing Lena Hetty and Amelia Clark, Lena Hetty
was said that, you know, she gets like people did
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come up to her on the street and be like
I hate you, You're a bitch, and like row stuff
at her because her character was so evil. Aim Clark
was like dumbfounded that people couldn't separate the tale. Elena
Hetty was like, well, that never happens to you, And
what Amelia Clark said that blew both of our minds.
(12:33):
She goes, no, because she know, she goes in real life,
my hair is brown, it's not blonde. She's like, I'm
usually not on a horse, you know, nothing wrong with that.
She goes, and I'm also not being raped. Oh, And
Lena Hetty goes, did you just say that to a
Rolling Stone? And she's like.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, oh, my gosh, you can.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Again. Everybody I talked to you on that show said
they had to drink because of it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I mean, the thing is, I've never seen it. The
only reason I know of Game of Thrones is because
my hair used to be like completely bleach blonde, and
when it was like, I would get all the time
that I looked like Amelia Clark from Game of Thrones,
which didn't Deniers Denaris. I think of what it is
(13:28):
is when she was called on the game room, I
don't know anyways. So yeah, that's the only thing about
Dream of Thrones with ever stuff with me, but the
you know, she looked like this radiating goddess like, and
so that's what I wanted to kind of give off
on the beach of like, you know, not trying too hard,
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just kind of like glowing from within.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You know what I mean, not in a horse and
not being raped thankfully.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, yes, thankfully.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
No than it was so funnycause she said that to me,
and again le Hey was like, did you just say
that to Rolling Stone?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And She's like yeah, yeah, no hesitation.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
No, but yeah, So anyway, so I'm thinking of like
it's funny. I think of a movie like Splash with
Daryl Hannah, or like there was a Mermaid too, like
Aqua Marine I think where Jojo played a mermaid. So
I was thinking of like mermaids. But in media Lark school,
I mean, she's great. I just hated the show because
(14:35):
it was I watched it to prepare for the interview
for Rolling Stone, and the first one, at the end
of it they literally throw a kid to his death
off the top of the building. Fuck this, And then
the second one they split a wolf's throat and I'm like,
George Martin can suck my fucking dick. I will never
watch the shit again.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah no, And you know, usually I really love like
mystery or but that's not mystery or thriller that I
think that's just cooy. But I typically I do like
shows that are mystery thriller type of shows. But I just.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
South Park did the best parody of it called Winter
Was Coming, where it was a three part South Park,
whereas it's all about Georgia R. Martin's fascination with penises.
Oh really, yeah, because anyway, we're spending too much time
on game throats. So you mentioned to me Clark, Yes,
who is great. She's done other worthwhile things that you
(15:41):
know don't involve, you know, gratuitously fucking beheading wolves and
throwing kids at their death.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh my gosh. I maybe I'll watch an episode or
two to say that I've tried it, but I don't know.
As of right now, I am glued to the screen
with Oh, Love is Blind. I hate to say it,
but I am a reality star or reality TV lover.
(16:15):
I don't know what it is about it. I just
just sucks. You ride in the next thing, you know,
you're on episode six and you don't know how you
got there, and you're eating a bunch of popcorns dump food,
and then you're like with a Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
But so, what is your favorite reality show? Not counting
Love Those which of course you were on.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, that was always fun. I think growing up in
my household, we always watched American Idol, America's about talent
in the Bachelor, like those three when I was young,
or like it shows in our household. Now, I want what,
(17:05):
uh you know, like like Love is Blind, Love Island.
Actually no, I'm like, I didn't watch the last season
of Love Island where they became like really famous, the
like the cast, but Love is Blind is always very
interesting to me because it's like people fall in love
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with each other without even seeing each other, so it's
like quickly that happens, you know, when they see each other.
It's like, it's always so interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
But yeah, well, if you could write a song for
any reality show, what would it be. Let's take this
back to music. If you could write a song and
perform on any reality show.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now, no, I'm gonna have to say uh no on
Love Island and the Stallion performed on it, I think
the last last season or the second to last. But
I would you know what I would love. I would
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love for one of my songs to just be on
a novel because that, like that would just be so
cool to me to be on a random nomana of
like I mean, my non music in Spanish. But then
of course i'd have to say I don't know, let's
just let's just say Love Island. I want to say
Love Island.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay, I've never seen it, so I have no opinion
on this either way.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Well, it's funny too because you hear some of the
music on there, and I think, I don't know if
it's like AI music.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Some of it sounds like AI music, but I always
the music always makes me just crack up because it's
like you listen to it and something sad will happen,
and it's like this sun goes down and the day.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Like the music, the words are always just so cheesy but
so perfectly fitting to the scenario. It's really just you know,
it's so funny. So yeah, I would I would have
to say, if I wanted my music somewhere, I would
say either Love Island or Love is Blind. Perhectly love
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is Blind maybe.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Okay, Yeah, I mean it's interesting for I mean for
you talk about, you know, how that stuff because it's
funny because you know, I was talking about this with
someone today in an interview, and I think I was
talking about with Dava Max an interview. You know who
she is, right Ava Max. Yeah, I we're talking about,
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you know, and how like pop music becomes such an
escape and then this day and age, you know, that
is so important, you know, like I think people are
you know, like it's funny because tonight was the State
of the Union and I'm like, I was telling my friend,
you could literally put a gun in my mouth that
I wouldn't watch that shit. Yeah, you know, so I'm
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for you. Do you feel like all this stuff is
like a valuable escape and it's like, you know, it
allows you to kind of go into another world for
a little bit. Granted, you know, a very dumb world,
but whatever, I mean, each of their own.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, Like like you mean you know my music.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
No, not the music, Your music is not dumb, but
the reality TV reality TV. Okay, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I think that sometimes, Like I mean, music is definitely
my escape, and like I find a lot of peason
doing music. But sometimes there's this you know, when you
were like a kid and you came home from school
and you took off your backpack and you just like
Brando and if your parents weren't home and you can
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in your slot where you just watch some TV like forking.
Like that's almost the feeling I get because I don't
do it often, but when I do it, it's just
like a little street Like it's like I just want
to turn on the TV. I want to have my snack.
I want to have a nice well. I don't drink
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much soda, but like I'll take juice and water. I'm
afraid I'll mixt like water and juice, so there's not
a lot of calories and whatever. But I just anyways,
I sit on my couch, I'll drink that, like I'll
watch to show into me. It's like, yeah, you're kind
of just like in your own little world for a
little bit. You don't I mean too much. If something
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is it's never good, but like every once in a
while to just kind of indulge in that like a
what do you call it, a couch potato potato. Yeah,
I love it. I think it's it's good. I think
it's good to have here a time, even if it's
rotting on a couch.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So it's funny. Where does your music fit? Is that?
Like for you? Do you see it also as an
escape in the same kind of way? I mean, you know,
like and again there's nothing you know, it's funny. I
mean the more I talk about it with people, the
idea of pop music, the more I realize, you know,
it is valuable in its way. I mean, you know,
for me, like I grew up more in rock music.
(22:38):
But you know, talking with you know, so many different
artists about the idea of pop music, you know what
I mean, it's like and again I'm talking with David Maxday.
We were talking about the idea of like, you know,
there's different levels of pop music obviously, you know, but
I mean there is that just I mean, there's something
to be said for just that crazy as fuck, you know,
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like ridiculous, you know, over the top. You ride out
onto the stage and like a motorcycle, you know, you
blow up a car on stage. You know, you're dancing
naked with eighty seven midgets surrounding you. I mean there's
something to be said for that spectacle.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, I think there's like like with me with my music,
like you just yeah, it is almost like I mean,
it's not the same thing as sitting down and watching
the reality TV show, but like it almost is the
same a word, It just brings your mind to a
(23:40):
different place, you know, right, Like for me, a lot
of the times, I am a little bit more I
don't know, my close friends would say I'm not the
more quiet one, but to a lot of people, I
am typically a lot more quiet and a lot more
to myself until you get to know me and things
like that. But like once you know, like I said,
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once I start hearing the beat or once you start
writing and I'm getting into the zone, like you almost
get into this little fantasy world of just like what
you love, you know, and like you just thrive. At
least I feel like I thrived really well, like wringing
in a studio door music.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
You know, right, so much the world you want people
to take it going to emphatize?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
What would you say?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
What is the world that you know? What are people
going to hypnotize? What's the world you want them to
go into?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Like of just the the music that or like I
want them to feel just like sexy and empowered. And
you know, we were talking about hot Stuff by Donna
Summer and it's like, yeah, that is an anthem for
a lot of women. And I know that hot Stuff
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and song Nobi Salah are very different, but you know
what it is similar in a way of like I
want to be hypnotized by you. I want to you know,
have this feeling of being, you know, just totally mamored
by you, not in like a like you're higher than
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the type of way to the person that you're like
in love with, but or just like I like this
feeling and I'm feeling myself and I like what I'm feeling,
and I think that all my music I would hope
that all my music has that feeling the same feeling
for everyone that listens to it, because at least when
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I listen to it, I mean even just being on
the beach, I hear the music and automatically like you're
my body just like wants to let go and just
feel it. And like I want people to have that
same feeling too, where they could listen to the song
and it can have different meanings if they're listening to
it or in power, or they're listening to it and
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thinking about their significant others or even just themselves and
being hypnotized and loving yourself, you know, so like yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't know if that's confusing, but yeah, but I
want like the feeling of that song to just be
like this is a good song. Like and when I
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heard it afterwards, like I remember I sent it to you,
and I sent it to a couple other people, and
I was like, I'm really excited about this song. Like,
of course it has to be recorded. There's a lot
of stuff. I had a lot of visions with like
back vocals, and I wanted to do lots of average
and harmonies and things like that to give it that
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like that I love in a pop song, but like
from the beginning, like the song is just so good
to me, you know, so right, So yeah, I'm hoping
that like people can feel that energy off of like
an and the video wasn't like this huge budget of
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a video. You know, it's all of them difficult now being
independent and doing those things, but you know, I pour
it in my full heart and like energy on the video,
and like, I hope people can like see that as well.
Not that I need like, oh my god, but I
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hope people can sense like that same energy that I'm
wanting to give with the song itself and with the video.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
So it's funny and a weird way, like it kind
of feels like you know, and again the idea of
hip and sizeis, well, what makes a great song, any
great song I've talked about to so many people is
that it has so many different meanings. So you don't
have to be in love, you know, but it kind
of feels like being sound. It makes you what it
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feels like being stoned.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's funny. Someone shared the song or I
guess I posted it today or no yesterday, and someone
like posted it on their story or something and they
were like, it was this guy like just dancing to it,
and I was like, that's what I want, Like, I
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want people to interpret it however they want and like
just run with it, because my music isn't to just
like give one story. Of course I have my version
of it, and you could listen to that song, the
same song and get a completely different feeling from it.
So like, I do want people to feel that empowerment
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and you know what I do get out of the song.
But if you have your own like feeling, you know,
go for it. Because my music is for everything, for anybody,
and you know, as long as it's given me, like
a positive, happy feeling, yeah, that's all I care about.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well, as I say I think any great song, you know,
it's funny because then I've done thousands, I mean, at
this point, thousands of interviews. I've never asked anybody what
a song means. And the reason why is, you know,
there will be times of course I'm curious, but because
any good song should have so many meanings that it's
funny because I've talked to artists who told me that
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when they hear from fans what a song means to them,
they're like, oh, that's interesting. I never thought of that,
but it could actually change the artist.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Meaning yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Yeah, it's really cool how music
can be that way. Again, it's a very like it's
so universal, it can mean so many different things it
can be, you know. It's just it's really cool the
(29:57):
power of music. And I'm glad that I get to
be able to like thankfully release my stuff and I'm excited,
like it's going to be a really cool I think
year of just continuing to release music that it gives
off that same energy so people can listen to it
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and feel what they feel with every song, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, yeah, so obvious questions will wrap up in a second.
But for you, what is once? If you could ask
any artist what a song means or what they meant
by it, what song would you ask? What artists and
what sung do you ask?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I always say Selena Gomez because I just have an impression,
because I don't know why Selena Gomez like I would
want I would want to listen to her story on
Lose You to Love Me obviously, like I know, I
know like what it's about, but I would just want
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to know like everything you know, like details, like I
just feel like I would be friends with her, you know,
like I could grab a coffee with her, she could
sit down, Like that's what I would want for. Yeah,
Pelina Gomez Lose You to Love Me is for sure
the song I would probably so.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Last question, what's the best interpretation of one of your
songs you've heard from people?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Interpretation? Hmmm, I'm gonna I have to think about it.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Or maybe it's a do you randomly dancing to yours
a song?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Oh? You know what was really cool there was there
was this girl who like I met maybe four years ago,
and she really surprised me. When I released my eighties
a while that a girl it was called which means
the reality of loving you in English. It was this
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she randomly tagged me and she did a whole like
choreography with her dance class to one of my songs
in Me Pete, And I thought, wait, that is so special,
Like I never I never thought that like one of
my songs. And she was she was living in England
or something like that, and she had sent it to me.
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I'll have to look and see if I still have
that video. But anyways, it was so cool to me
that I never thought that I could release a song
and then I was having like a group of kids
in England with their dance teacher dancing to my song.
You know, so that was That's pretty special. I think.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Cool. What do you want to add that we're gonna
talk about, Well, you said music coming out this year,
so like, will you be released a song a month
as you've been doing or what's the timeline for yes?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The goal is to be releasing every
four to six weeks, and like I really want to
be consistent on that. I think, like I have a
goal for one releasing in up and May, so May,
for sure I will be releasing NUP with some of
the songs that I have been releasing and then along
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with some man new ones. So it'll be really cool.
I'm excited. It's a year of growth, it's a year
of a brand and Andrea again, I you know, like I
told you, I feel very blessed, you know, like with
how I feel like everything has happened this year, Lots
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of good things, lots of bad things, but more good
than bad, you know, and just lots of growth and
you know, pouring my heart and pouring my everything into
like my craft, you know, even if it takes a
little bit more work and I guess struggles you know
what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but always, always faithful
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for
Hey, it is Steve Balton and welcome to In service
of as we've been doing sometimes, I want to take
this Friday episode to introduce you to up and coming
new artists. And Drea, a Spanish singer from based in
Miami but from Puerto Rico, is an absolutely amazing artist
(00:27):
that you will completely fall in love with as I did.
Her new song just out today, Hypnotizada, which means hypnotized
in English, is just one of those songs that you know,
it will make you feel stone, it will make you
feel good, it will make you feel something, but it's
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one of those songs that you can't really forget. And
there's an amazing video to go with it as well.
Drea is an absolutely special artist, one of my favorites
coming up right now, and a wonderful person. So hope
you'll enjoyed this interview as much as I did. Now
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we can talk about the song at the video. So
how much fun was it for you to like do
that video on the beach.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Like, Honestly, it wasn't going to happen that night. We
went to the beach because we were just going to
take the photo for the cover photo of a song,
and then like I had done my hair and whatever,
but like it really wasn't like video ready, but like
we got to the beach and it was like, hmm,
(01:48):
the light was the lighting was perfect. There was nobody
at the beach, and I was like, should we just
do it? And it was the most like I don't
want to say last do it like the other song
which I threw my makeup on, like and whatever, but
it was like so organic and just unplanned. But we
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were so excited, and me specifically I was I was like, okay,
what was just do it? And it turned out perfect.
After twenty years of editing a thousand videos that we
took that that evening, you know, I think that like
we I came up with like a video that actually
(02:33):
captured what is the meaning of the.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Song is you know, and what's the meaning of the song?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well, the song talks. It's called hypnotized in English fiddle
he and Pisa, and it's almost it's like it's like
when you meet this person where you're just like completely
enamored by and hypnotized by, you know, and and like
(03:05):
like okay, I wanna, I wanna. There's no lyrics here
me at least, like I was always in relationships that
were like super high strung energy, like stress like, and
so it was like when you find like a relationship
(03:25):
where you kind of like feel that security in or whatever,
you just become completely I don't know, just like you
want to be fully devoured by that relationship. And it's like,
but you know, sometimes you feel almost kind of crazy
(03:45):
because it's like it's just too good to be true,
you know. Yeah, So I don't know if I answered
your question.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, how are you dead?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
What is it again?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
But what meaning to you?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah? The I guess the song when it means to
me is to just even when you when you feel
like that doubt or that craziness of like, I don't know,
is this too could be true? And sometimes relationships do
come into your lives lives for a reason. And I
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think that this song really just kind of describes where
I am at today, where you know, it's it's finally
something that's healthy, something that you know, I'm hypnotized, but
in a good way. I'm not like controlled, you know. Yeah,
(04:49):
It's it's like I think that I'm in a stage
of my life where, you know, again, my oldies and
my other music is very like bad and discussing. And
it was so funny because I always want like my
parents or my friends. I was like, I released my
pe and they're like, did that really happen to this
music that you released? I'm like, no, because I'm ever
(05:11):
always is super private about my love life. But really
it was the reality of what I was living. And
so it's nice to like proudly be releasing music of
what I'm going through and it's finally positive. You know,
it's not perfect, but it's positive and it's like and
it's feature and it's like confidence and yeah. So when
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we went to the beach to film that video, I
was just super super in love with how it turned
out because the sun was the ways were crashing, like
and I really wanted to capture like when you're like
hypnotized and so like in love with this person, you
can't stop thinking about them, and I wanted to like
(05:57):
really capture like me being at the beach and like,
you know, just being in my thoughts, but not out
of sadness, just of like like I want you, you.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Know, right. Okay, So it's funny. Do you feel that
Do you feel you feel that the video? Did you
feel that as you were. Well, first of all, did
you write the song with other people?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I wrote it with. I actually wrote it with my
boyfriend because my boyfriend is a writer as well. He's
written a lot of beautiful songs and he actually does
poetry and he's a singer songwriter for his project. But
I met him doing music for my project, right. Yeah,
(06:48):
So that song, we wrote it together in Mexico. So
it's funny. He kind of has to think sometimes turn
off like that the song is kind of about him,
and he kind of shuts it off in a way that, Okay,
how are we going to write this song about somebody?
That is what you're wanting to say. So we did
(07:09):
it in Mexico. I re recorded it here in our
studio like two weeks ago. I got the final vocals
back in time, and then shot in the video just
a couple of days later.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And when you wrote the song, did you feel captured
it right away? Like sometimes I from talking to people
like you can write a song and it's just like
there immediately, Like I was just talking with the dude
from the band Squeeze the other day. You know, I've
written so many iconic songs, you know, black Coffee in
bed tempted pulling muscles from the show. They're considered, like,
(07:44):
you know, among the greatest things of the songwriters. And
what's interesting is he was telling me there are some
songs that come in, you know, five minutes, and there
are other songs that we will literally like you know,
wrestle with to the point like you know, it's gonna
make you crazy. Like the Diamonds told me, like what
he was writing Sweet Caroline, because like that song came
(08:04):
from God. It was so easy. He's like, but when
I wrote I Am, I said, He's like that song
was going to kill one of us, either me or
the song was not going to make it, you know.
So was the ones that just was like it's like
so easy.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It was. It was I've had songs before where it's
taking me from time and I'm like, oh, God, like
to we try again, you know what I mean. So
like I totally get that feeling. But the thing is,
when I was it started off with the beat. I
think that like for me, when I start like feeling
the beat and like when I start syncing in with
(08:48):
what the producer is doing and what I want, I
turned into like a you know, ultra focus and so
we were working on the beat and I was like,
I really want something super Britain, like super like sexy.
But we you know how I always have wanted my
(09:09):
music to be like almost like this, like little Mermaid,
like being in the wooks, you know what I mean,
So well, like me solving the video at the beat,
I just wanted to be like this, like watered Goddess
is kind of what I wanted to give off. But
you know, working on the beat with a producer, it
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was like I have this vision in my head. So
then once you did the track, I loved it, and
we did a melody and it's like, for me, how
I do music is I start listening and then I
just throw different melodies, like I'll go from start to
finish of how I feel like the song will sound,
(09:53):
and then you know, I'll maybe do one or two,
and based off of that what comes into my head
and what I like and what kind of resonates with me,
you go off again and we start writing on top
of those melodies, and yeah, can you see that song?
I just felt like it was super my element, like
(10:14):
the song is bearing me with what I love to
listen to in the radio, with you know what I
love to make as an artist and so so yeah,
yeah that song it was good.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Right, Wait, important question. You say you wanted to be
a water goddess?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Why said that? But like, like I wanted it to be.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
There's not I was going to say, there's like Mermaid
movies you see in all this, So what for you
in this example of like, what's an example of someone
who was a water goddess?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I wanted I wanted to be like a seal? Like
I think I think about why the girl with a
long white hair from a Game of Thrones, what is her.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Name, Amania Bark?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, Amelia Clark, but what was your name? And Game
of Thrones?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I don't know. I fucking hate a Game of Thrones.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I've never seen that a day in my life. But like,
like just if you look at her, she looks very
like enchanted, enchanted and ethereal. And I was almost like that,
you know, and it's like I want these.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Things to me that anybody ever said in an interview. Really, yeah,
so I really wanted to be Amelia park Man. It
was really funny. I was interviewing her and Lena Hatty,
who played the Queen my Game of Thrones and I
was interviewing them for Rolling Stone, and Lena Hattie was
(11:51):
talking about how the fact that you know the show
was terrible. I mean I really loved it. I hated
it. It was so violent it felt struggletudus to me. I
interviewed fore cast members. She told me that they all
needed to drink to deal with the shell. But when
I was interviewing Lena Hetty and Amelia Clark, Lena Hetty
was said that, you know, she gets like people did
(12:12):
come up to her on the street and be like
I hate you, You're a bitch, and like row stuff
at her because her character was so evil. Aim Clark
was like dumbfounded that people couldn't separate the tale. Elena
Hetty was like, well, that never happens to you, And
what Amelia Clark said that blew both of our minds.
(12:33):
She goes, no, because she know, she goes in real life,
my hair is brown, it's not blonde. She's like, I'm
usually not on a horse, you know, nothing wrong with that.
She goes, and I'm also not being raped. Oh, And
Lena Hetty goes, did you just say that to a
Rolling Stone? And she's like.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, oh, my gosh, you can.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Again. Everybody I talked to you on that show said
they had to drink because of it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I mean, the thing is, I've never seen it. The
only reason I know of Game of Thrones is because
my hair used to be like completely bleach blonde, and
when it was like, I would get all the time
that I looked like Amelia Clark from Game of Thrones,
which didn't Deniers Denaris. I think of what it is
(13:28):
is when she was called on the game room, I
don't know anyways. So yeah, that's the only thing about
Dream of Thrones with ever stuff with me, but the
you know, she looked like this radiating goddess like, and
so that's what I wanted to kind of give off
on the beach of like, you know, not trying too hard,
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just kind of like glowing from within.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You know what I mean, not in a horse and
not being raped thankfully.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, yes, thankfully.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
No than it was so funnycause she said that to me,
and again le Hey was like, did you just say
that to Rolling Stone?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And She's like yeah, yeah, no hesitation.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
No, but yeah, So anyway, so I'm thinking of like
it's funny. I think of a movie like Splash with
Daryl Hannah, or like there was a Mermaid too, like
Aqua Marine I think where Jojo played a mermaid. So
I was thinking of like mermaids. But in media Lark school,
I mean, she's great. I just hated the show because
(14:35):
it was I watched it to prepare for the interview
for Rolling Stone, and the first one, at the end
of it they literally throw a kid to his death
off the top of the building. Fuck this, And then
the second one they split a wolf's throat and I'm like,
George Martin can suck my fucking dick. I will never
watch the shit again.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah no, And you know, usually I really love like
mystery or but that's not mystery or thriller that I
think that's just cooy. But I typically I do like
shows that are mystery thriller type of shows. But I just.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
South Park did the best parody of it called Winter
Was Coming, where it was a three part South Park,
whereas it's all about Georgia R. Martin's fascination with penises.
Oh really, yeah, because anyway, we're spending too much time
on game throats. So you mentioned to me Clark, Yes,
who is great. She's done other worthwhile things that you
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know don't involve, you know, gratuitously fucking beheading wolves and
throwing kids at their death.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh my gosh. I maybe I'll watch an episode or
two to say that I've tried it, but I don't know.
As of right now, I am glued to the screen
with Oh, Love is Blind. I hate to say it,
but I am a reality star or reality TV lover.
(16:15):
I don't know what it is about it. I just
just sucks. You ride in the next thing, you know,
you're on episode six and you don't know how you
got there, and you're eating a bunch of popcorns dump food,
and then you're like with a Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
But so, what is your favorite reality show? Not counting
Love Those which of course you were on.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, that was always fun. I think growing up in
my household, we always watched American Idol, America's about talent
in the Bachelor, like those three when I was young,
or like it shows in our household. Now, I want what,
(17:05):
uh you know, like like Love is Blind, Love Island.
Actually no, I'm like, I didn't watch the last season
of Love Island where they became like really famous, the
like the cast, but Love is Blind is always very
interesting to me because it's like people fall in love
(17:26):
with each other without even seeing each other, so it's
like quickly that happens, you know, when they see each other.
It's like, it's always so interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
But yeah, well, if you could write a song for
any reality show, what would it be. Let's take this
back to music. If you could write a song and
perform on any reality show.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now, no, I'm gonna have to say uh no on
Love Island and the Stallion performed on it, I think
the last last season or the second to last. But
I would you know what I would love. I would
(18:11):
love for one of my songs to just be on
a novel because that, like that would just be so
cool to me to be on a random nomana of
like I mean, my non music in Spanish. But then
of course i'd have to say I don't know, let's
just let's just say Love Island. I want to say
Love Island.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay, I've never seen it, so I have no opinion
on this either way.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Well, it's funny too because you hear some of the
music on there, and I think, I don't know if
it's like AI music.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Some of it sounds like AI music, but I always
the music always makes me just crack up because it's
like you listen to it and something sad will happen,
and it's like this sun goes down and the day.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Like the music, the words are always just so cheesy but
so perfectly fitting to the scenario. It's really just you know,
it's so funny. So yeah, I would I would have
to say, if I wanted my music somewhere, I would
say either Love Island or Love is Blind. Perhectly love
(19:32):
is Blind maybe.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Okay, Yeah, I mean it's interesting for I mean for
you talk about, you know, how that stuff because it's
funny because you know, I was talking about this with
someone today in an interview, and I think I was
talking about with Dava Max an interview. You know who
she is, right Ava Max. Yeah, I we're talking about,
(20:00):
you know, and how like pop music becomes such an
escape and then this day and age, you know, that
is so important, you know, like I think people are
you know, like it's funny because tonight was the State
of the Union and I'm like, I was telling my friend,
you could literally put a gun in my mouth that
I wouldn't watch that shit. Yeah, you know, so I'm
(20:21):
for you. Do you feel like all this stuff is
like a valuable escape and it's like, you know, it
allows you to kind of go into another world for
a little bit. Granted, you know, a very dumb world,
but whatever, I mean, each of their own.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, Like like you mean you know my music.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
No, not the music, Your music is not dumb, but
the reality TV reality TV. Okay, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I think that sometimes, Like I mean, music is definitely
my escape, and like I find a lot of peason
doing music. But sometimes there's this you know, when you
were like a kid and you came home from school
and you took off your backpack and you just like
Brando and if your parents weren't home and you can
(21:12):
in your slot where you just watch some TV like forking.
Like that's almost the feeling I get because I don't
do it often, but when I do it, it's just
like a little street Like it's like I just want
to turn on the TV. I want to have my snack.
I want to have a nice well. I don't drink
(21:32):
much soda, but like I'll take juice and water. I'm
afraid I'll mixt like water and juice, so there's not
a lot of calories and whatever. But I just anyways,
I sit on my couch, I'll drink that, like I'll
watch to show into me. It's like, yeah, you're kind
of just like in your own little world for a
little bit. You don't I mean too much. If something
(21:55):
is it's never good, but like every once in a
while to just kind of indulge in that like a
what do you call it, a couch potato potato. Yeah,
I love it. I think it's it's good. I think
it's good to have here a time, even if it's
rotting on a couch.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So it's funny. Where does your music fit? Is that?
Like for you? Do you see it also as an
escape in the same kind of way? I mean, you know,
like and again there's nothing you know, it's funny. I
mean the more I talk about it with people, the
idea of pop music, the more I realize, you know,
it is valuable in its way. I mean, you know,
for me, like I grew up more in rock music.
(22:38):
But you know, talking with you know, so many different
artists about the idea of pop music, you know what
I mean, it's like and again I'm talking with David Maxday.
We were talking about the idea of like, you know,
there's different levels of pop music obviously, you know, but
I mean there is that just I mean, there's something
to be said for just that crazy as fuck, you know,
(22:59):
like ridiculous, you know, over the top. You ride out
onto the stage and like a motorcycle, you know, you
blow up a car on stage. You know, you're dancing
naked with eighty seven midgets surrounding you. I mean there's
something to be said for that spectacle.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, I think there's like like with me with my music,
like you just yeah, it is almost like I mean,
it's not the same thing as sitting down and watching
the reality TV show, but like it almost is the
same a word, It just brings your mind to a
(23:40):
different place, you know, right, Like for me, a lot
of the times, I am a little bit more I
don't know, my close friends would say I'm not the
more quiet one, but to a lot of people, I
am typically a lot more quiet and a lot more
to myself until you get to know me and things
like that. But like once you know, like I said,
(24:03):
once I start hearing the beat or once you start
writing and I'm getting into the zone, like you almost
get into this little fantasy world of just like what
you love, you know, and like you just thrive. At
least I feel like I thrived really well, like wringing
in a studio door music.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
You know, right, so much the world you want people
to take it going to emphatize?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
What would you say?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
What is the world that you know? What are people
going to hypnotize? What's the world you want them to
go into?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Like of just the the music that or like I
want them to feel just like sexy and empowered. And
you know, we were talking about hot Stuff by Donna
Summer and it's like, yeah, that is an anthem for
a lot of women. And I know that hot Stuff
(24:58):
and song Nobi Salah are very different, but you know
what it is similar in a way of like I
want to be hypnotized by you. I want to you know,
have this feeling of being, you know, just totally mamored
by you, not in like a like you're higher than
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the type of way to the person that you're like
in love with, but or just like I like this
feeling and I'm feeling myself and I like what I'm feeling,
and I think that all my music I would hope
that all my music has that feeling the same feeling
for everyone that listens to it, because at least when
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I listen to it, I mean even just being on
the beach, I hear the music and automatically like you're
my body just like wants to let go and just
feel it. And like I want people to have that
same feeling too, where they could listen to the song
and it can have different meanings if they're listening to
it or in power, or they're listening to it and
(26:01):
thinking about their significant others or even just themselves and
being hypnotized and loving yourself, you know, so like yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't know if that's confusing, but yeah, but I
want like the feeling of that song to just be
like this is a good song. Like and when I
(26:25):
heard it afterwards, like I remember I sent it to you,
and I sent it to a couple other people, and
I was like, I'm really excited about this song. Like,
of course it has to be recorded. There's a lot
of stuff. I had a lot of visions with like
back vocals, and I wanted to do lots of average
and harmonies and things like that to give it that
(26:45):
like that I love in a pop song, but like
from the beginning, like the song is just so good
to me, you know, so right, So yeah, I'm hoping
that like people can feel that energy off of like
an and the video wasn't like this huge budget of
(27:09):
a video. You know, it's all of them difficult now being
independent and doing those things, but you know, I pour
it in my full heart and like energy on the video,
and like, I hope people can like see that as well.
Not that I need like, oh my god, but I
(27:29):
hope people can sense like that same energy that I'm
wanting to give with the song itself and with the video.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
So it's funny and a weird way, like it kind
of feels like you know, and again the idea of
hip and sizeis, well, what makes a great song, any
great song I've talked about to so many people is
that it has so many different meanings. So you don't
have to be in love, you know, but it kind
of feels like being sound. It makes you what it
(27:59):
feels like being stoned.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's funny. Someone shared the song or I
guess I posted it today or no yesterday, and someone
like posted it on their story or something and they
were like, it was this guy like just dancing to it,
and I was like, that's what I want, Like, I
(28:23):
want people to interpret it however they want and like
just run with it, because my music isn't to just
like give one story. Of course I have my version
of it, and you could listen to that song, the
same song and get a completely different feeling from it.
So like, I do want people to feel that empowerment
(28:45):
and you know what I do get out of the song.
But if you have your own like feeling, you know,
go for it. Because my music is for everything, for anybody,
and you know, as long as it's given me, like
a positive, happy feeling, yeah, that's all I care about.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well, as I say I think any great song, you know,
it's funny because then I've done thousands, I mean, at
this point, thousands of interviews. I've never asked anybody what
a song means. And the reason why is, you know,
there will be times of course I'm curious, but because
any good song should have so many meanings that it's
funny because I've talked to artists who told me that
(29:30):
when they hear from fans what a song means to them,
they're like, oh, that's interesting. I never thought of that,
but it could actually change the artist.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Meaning yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Yeah, it's really cool how music
can be that way. Again, it's a very like it's
so universal, it can mean so many different things it
can be, you know. It's just it's really cool the
(29:57):
power of music. And I'm glad that I get to
be able to like thankfully release my stuff and I'm excited,
like it's going to be a really cool I think
year of just continuing to release music that it gives
off that same energy so people can listen to it
(30:19):
and feel what they feel with every song, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, yeah, so obvious questions will wrap up in a second.
But for you, what is once? If you could ask
any artist what a song means or what they meant
by it, what song would you ask? What artists and
what sung do you ask?
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I always say Selena Gomez because I just have an impression,
because I don't know why Selena Gomez like I would
want I would want to listen to her story on
Lose You to Love Me obviously, like I know, I
know like what it's about, but I would just want
(31:03):
to know like everything you know, like details, like I
just feel like I would be friends with her, you know,
like I could grab a coffee with her, she could
sit down, Like that's what I would want for. Yeah,
Pelina Gomez Lose You to Love Me is for sure
the song I would probably so.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Last question, what's the best interpretation of one of your
songs you've heard from people?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Interpretation? Hmmm, I'm gonna I have to think about it.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Or maybe it's a do you randomly dancing to yours
a song?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Oh? You know what was really cool there was there
was this girl who like I met maybe four years ago,
and she really surprised me. When I released my eighties
a while that a girl it was called which means
the reality of loving you in English. It was this
(32:11):
she randomly tagged me and she did a whole like
choreography with her dance class to one of my songs
in Me Pete, And I thought, wait, that is so special,
Like I never I never thought that like one of
my songs. And she was she was living in England
or something like that, and she had sent it to me.
(32:33):
I'll have to look and see if I still have
that video. But anyways, it was so cool to me
that I never thought that I could release a song
and then I was having like a group of kids
in England with their dance teacher dancing to my song.
You know, so that was That's pretty special. I think.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Cool. What do you want to add that we're gonna
talk about, Well, you said music coming out this year,
so like, will you be released a song a month
as you've been doing or what's the timeline for yes?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The goal is to be releasing every
four to six weeks, and like I really want to
be consistent on that. I think, like I have a
goal for one releasing in up and May, so May,
for sure I will be releasing NUP with some of
the songs that I have been releasing and then along
(33:24):
with some man new ones. So it'll be really cool.
I'm excited. It's a year of growth, it's a year
of a brand and Andrea again, I you know, like I
told you, I feel very blessed, you know, like with
how I feel like everything has happened this year, Lots
(33:45):
of good things, lots of bad things, but more good
than bad, you know, and just lots of growth and
you know, pouring my heart and pouring my everything into
like my craft, you know, even if it takes a
little bit more work and I guess struggles you know
what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but always, always faithful
(34:08):
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