D4VD

Brady talks to D4VD backstage at Lollapalooza. They talk movies, how videogaming created a gateway to music, and more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's go save the best for first.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Come on now, congratulations on everything. Thank you first, This
isn't your first lava? Is it is?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
It is? It is? Okay, how do you feel about that?
Feel great? Yeah, it's coming up in just a little bit.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Explain what goes through your head like at this very moment,
like you're talking to me, but are you really thinking
about what you're gonna do out there? And like this crowd? Like,
what is it? Is there?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Nerves?

Speaker 3 (00:22):
N I want to go watch Dead Pulling the Wolverine again.
I want to go watch dead Pool and Wolverine again.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
You're gonna watch it.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm watching so many movies this week. I just saw
Long Legs last night, and I saw Dead Pulling Wolverine
right before then I saw you want.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
To watch it again? I do? It was great? Okay,
I haven't seen it. Oh yeah, okay, okay, okay, better
than two or one? What's the best to me? Okay?
If three?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Little cameo heavy? Depending on the cameos, Yeah, that's marvel.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Well, back to you and your music. I've coined it
v pop. Yeah, it's v pop. That's the name of
your music. It's like ivy we're just listening to and
everybody's like such a it's very like, very just yes,
you can't be in a bad mood listening to your music.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
You can. Yeah, a couple songs, some sad ones. Yeah,
some sad ones. Yeah. Where did the sad inspiration come from?
No experience?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
No, I mean I was homeschooled for the majority of
my high school life, so I was a big gamer
as well. I played Fortnite, Call Duty, all of that, so,
you know, using video games to kind of escape my reality.
Other kids would use their video games to escape the realities.
I was kind of living vicariously through them and like
the experiences that they would share to me through the game,
and it was kind of the gateway to making such

(01:33):
emotional songs that I have no experience.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
With and like complete strangers too exactly. So there's some
people out there in the world. They don't know what
they have.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Songs about the complete songs about them. Yeah, Okay, that's cool.
That's a different approach. Who who got you into music?
Was it your family? Was it your friends? Was it you?
It was also video games?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
So essentially I was a YouTuber for a couple of
years and I would use songs on my videos. I
was making money at one point, and then all of
a sudden, I get UMG strikes here and there everywhere.
I wasn't making money anymore. So I asked my mom,
how do I, you know, keep playing video games as
a living and I have to go to college. And
she was like, how about you make your own music
and put it in the video. And I was like,

(02:14):
you know what, I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Mom's always now.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
I shout out to my mom, and then the next thing,
I'm making music on my phone in my little sister's closet.
No studio, no MIC's, no nothing, just phone and a closet.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
That's wild, man, that's crazy. It used to be way different.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
You used to have to go pay a million dollars. Yeah, well,
you're crushing it now, feeling it. Feel it's the jam?
Are we looking at like a bigger project? Like a
bigger album? Absolutely future. I've always been scared of making albums.
That's why I like do EPs a lot, because it's
like there's no pressure. But when you're making an album,
people kind of hold you accountable to that that is you.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
So I was just taking my time on it. Making
sure it's perfect. It's it's almost the almost.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
What's what's up for the rest of the summer. Obviously
you're doing Lollapaluza. Are you Are you gonna do any
more shows?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Or I just finished my tour.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, I did a month in the US, a month
in Europe, and I think these are the last two festivals.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
I'm playing today and then tomorrow in Canada, okay, and
then a little break, a.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Little finishing album. I think I'm gonna go to London
and finish it, just like try a different scenery.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
You said your first is your first Chicago performance ever?

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Third one I performed here had actually fourth uh two
times last year, one headline one for Siza and then
two days ago at the Metro Crazy Show.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
And today Chicago.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Crowd is great, right Inane so much Undertay. They know
every song. They're just just a wild fans fans, right man. Well,
I appreciate you taking the time. I'll let you go
think about that and also get ready.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
For your performance. David's here. Appreciate it. Thank you for
stopping by.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Thank you