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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you a songwriter? Are you looking to turn your
songwriting passion into a full time gig gig? Whether you
are just at the start of your songwriting journey or
a seasoned industry professional, this show is made for you. You
we well. Welcome to the Songwriter Show, bringing together songwriting, news,
interviews and communitating. Now welcome your houst Toronto.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello again, and thank you for tuning in once again
to the Songwriter Sean Reality Radio one oh one. I'm Sarantos,
your host and fellow songwriter with a passion for crafting
stories through music. As someone who's been writing lyrics for
as long as I can remember, I know how every
song holds its own unique story. That's what brings us
together here every single Tuesday evening to celebrate the voices
(00:47):
behind the music we love. Tonight, I'm so excited to
have on the show. Mimika. She is a Toronto born,
New York City bound powerhouse who's already surpassed two million streams,
landed on Apple Music New and Alternative Spotlight, and completed
a North American tour that stretched from LA to New
York and now with their forthcoming EP, Beaming Daisies on
(01:09):
the horizon. She's taking her claim as one of the
most exciting new voices in global music.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And now welcome this week's special guest.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Guest, Welcome to show. How are you? I'm good?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Thank you? How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I'm doing well? So you got to tell us a
little bit about why you got what got you going
in this crazy direction of music and singing and songwriting.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh my gosh, Yes, of course. I have just always
been a storyteller from like as long as I can remember.
I grew up hearing my grandfather and my parents just
tell fantastical tales about their lives and it really put
the importance of storytelling in me from a really young age,
and that just translated to songwriting supernaturally, and that's how
(01:53):
I ended up here.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
All right, awesome. Are there any instruments that you play
or is it your voice?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yes? I learned piano when I was really young. I
got put in piano lessons, as most kids do, and
I hated it, as a lot of kids do, and
then found my way back to it as I learned
how to songwrite. I was like, Hey, you know what
that piano thing, I should really give it another try.
And then I kind of fell in love with it
and haven't looked back.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Tell us a little bit about your family. It was
your family musical at all or not really.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
No, but they have a huge appreciation for music. I
grew up listening to Queen and Billy Joel and Elton
John and really just so many different types of music.
My dad is really into rock and roll, so all
the like ACDC, Rolling Stones, and my mom has always
loved pop music, so I was listening to like Britney
(02:46):
Spears and Christina Aguilera. It was really well rounded. So
even though my parents and my family themselves aren't super musical,
there was always just such a love for music in
my life.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Do you have like a fondest musical memory in your house?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Oh, my gosh, that's a hard question. I think my
one of my fondest musical memories is I fell in
love with the musical Hairspray when I was really young
because we did it in a school production, and every
year for my birthday, I would force my family to
watch Hairspray with me. It was like my number one
birthday wish and it was the one day of the
(03:22):
year that they couldn't be like no, please, like let's
watch the New Avengers or something. So that's one of
my fondest memories.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
You ever been in any competitions?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yes, actually one competition like years ago, pre COVID times,
and I didn't make it to the end. I got
a couple of rounds in. But the biggest thing that
I took away from it was I made some really
great friends who I still like, collaborate with and keep
in touch with to this day.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's almost better when you don't win, right, because then
you're not tied into exactly their contracts and doing all
that and exactly I don't want to say unfair stuff,
but all that crap.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, all the stuff that maybe doesn't one hundred align
with you and your vision, but it's kind of like
the molds that makes sense or seems marketable and stuff
like that. But you get like if you get out
just before then you kind of get all the benefits
of you know, meeting new people and learning about yourself
and having these awesome opportunities. So yeah, I think that,
(04:18):
I think no matter what you learn from it, which
is the biggest thing, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
For sure. So you've obviously performed a little bit. Do
you've ever get nervous before performance.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No, I love That's like the number one question I
get asked. And I do not get nervous at all
for performing. I love performing. I get nervous about if
anybody's going to show up, Like, no matter how many
pre sales I know there are, no matter how big
the venue is, I'm always like, and what if no
one comes? Then? Yeah, you know that's the only thing
(04:48):
I get nervous about.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, No, I get it. Okay. Do you practice routinely?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Oh? Absolutely. I think you never stop learning, and especially
in something like music, there's always more to learn. There's
always ways to push yourself in different fastest of things
to learn and to practice. I even just vocally, right
Like vocals are my primary and I work with my
vocal coach every week twice a month, Like I constantly
(05:16):
work with my vocal coach, just because I think that exactly, like,
there's always something to learn. So the more then the
more you practice, the more that you get into the repetition,
the easier it becomes on stage.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And I think that's something you just kind of get
with time. And I know for me, you want it
to be perfect and then you kind of let go
of that, and then at this point in my career,
I just want to be authentic, so I like literally
do all my vlogs and all these things. You know,
no makeup, totally authentic, who cares about lighting? And you're
just kind of like it's more the message than anything,
(05:50):
so there's no pressure to look perfect. And I don't know,
I don't know if that's what everyone should do, but
that's just kind of what I do.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I think there's a really cool line that can be
drawn between authenticity and rehearsal. I think the same for me,
Like when I'm making my tiktoks or I'm doing my blogs,
I just want to be really me and really authentic.
But when I'm you know, recording or performing and stuff
like that, I feel like there's something to be said
(06:16):
about I get it. I guess it depends on who
you want to be on stage, But for me, I'm like,
I want to put on a show and I want
people to know that there's been time and energy and
effort put into this, because I don't take it lightly
that people spend their time and their money and their
energy coming to see me, and I want to give
(06:37):
them like the most perfectly like rehearsed and thought out
show that I possibly can.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So tell us about the song that we're going to
hear in a few minutes. What inspired this one?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yes, So this song is called interesting Things, and basically
the punchline of the song is how come the only
interesting thing that ever happened to you is me? And
basically a couple years ago, I made a deal with
myself where I just wanted to keep to myself in
terms of drama and gossip and things like that. I
(07:07):
was like, it's really none of my business other things
that are going on. I'm not looking for drama. I'm
not getting involved in drama. And it's like as soon
as I made that decision, the universe was like, oh well,
and then stuck the most drama and stuff that it
could in my face. So the song is very much
(07:28):
a testament to remaining outside of outside of the negativity,
outside of like I hate am I allowed to swear
before I swear.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You know what on most platforms YE have, but not
on all Okay, I might get like, so you could
do a polite damm or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Absolutely, I don't like trash talking. I hate talking badly
about people and things and places and the song is
just about that and keeping myself out of drama even
though it keeps looking for me.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
All Right, I'll tell you what. Let's take a listen,
we'll come back. I can talk some more.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Okay, Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
All right, everybody check this out. Here we go.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
You got a story to tell.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Don't mean that you tell.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It well, just that you get some ins.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
You like to bring up the past, claim that your
friends always have got as coming near the way, some
jeryatting atom thing and daysies. So this startsn't some poet
really puts some that.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
How can you.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Say anything that ever had any Where's me? A mad
fa guess maybe you'll love him like it brings take
us bastage? Oh your scribble by just baby just sad?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
How can you.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Try to stay thing that over a many where's me?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I like to let her just go for a three minute?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I told you so, be then victims.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
That's the difference between the kernel love that you need
and love them and gathering some furiating blood I'm thing
and daisies, something wax and blood day because I'm not
to baby.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Some touch? How come you only?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And trying to stay anything that ever Happenny's made.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
I'm fain guess maybe, but you love in the light
it brings take usself fu stage by your.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Scribbled pagees and baby just sit God, how come they
all trying to stay anything that ever Happnyles Medina book stage,
(10:54):
all your scribbled pages.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
They they just.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Said, so thank you for sharing that song. That was
(11:29):
very interesting and viby.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Do you do lyrics?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
First?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Do you humb out of melody? The music? Plunk it
on your piano? What do you do? How do you
get started?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
For me, honestly, the process changes depending on who I'm
in the room with or if I'm writing by myself,
But I would say ninety nine percent of the time
it starts with a concept or a word or a
line of lyrics, and then the rest kind of happens
simultaneously of I'm looking for chords at the same time
playing with different melodies, and the lyrics are coming through
(12:03):
because I'm like babbling as I'm looking for melodies. It's
really a fun process for me, especially when I'm writing
for myself, to be able to just have everything kind
of kind of come all at once, and then it's
also nice to flex different muscles. When I'm writing for
other artists, of they come to me with lyrics, or
they come to me with melodies, or we're top lining
and stuff like that, and to get to experiment in
(12:25):
different avenues. But for me, yeah, it kind of all
happens at the same time.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Okay, interesting. If you met a younger version of you,
what personal advice would you give them?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Oh, my goodness, I would tell her to be herself.
I think there was a lot of time where I
really wanted to be somebody else, or I wanted to
be a different version or something that I thought people
would like or be interested in. And the older I get,
the more I just keep trying to find my way
back to who I was before all of that and
(12:59):
who I really truly am. So that's what I would
tell her.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You're mirroring my own story there is. I think that's
so true. You do spend quite a bit of time
trying to be either someone you're not or something you're not,
or trying to be something you think people want you
to be, and it just takes time or confidence or
a divine light coming down from the clouds to make
you be yourself. I think so I'm glad you're there.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Thank you. Yeah, it's a journey, but it's an exciting one.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
So what's your jam? What's your favorite? Let's pick you
on eighties or nineties, whatever decade you prefer.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Oh my gosh, this is you're asking hard hitting questions.
I have to tell you. Let's go eighties. I actually
just saw the Michael Jackson musical literally this past weekend,
so right now, I've been jamming out to a lot
of Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
All Right, who would win a fight between Wonder Woman
and the Invisible Woman?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh my, I'm gonna say, are we talking like Sue Storm?
Like fantastic?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah? Yeah, invisible?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, I'm going to say invisible woman because I feel
like she has a leg up in this and said,
you know, like that'd be a really hard fight, but
I do feel like I feel like she has an
advantage there.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah. Are there any apps on your phone that you
just cannot live without?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
The weather app?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
The weather app?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Okay, all right, I like obsessively check the weather.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
All right, So you've you've traveled a little bit. What's
like the coolest gig or trip you've been on?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Coolest gig I've done? Has to be. I played la
at the Hotel Cafe in twenty twenty three and in
the room right next door was Jason Segal and he
was having like a crazy listening party or something, but
he was running super late, and so all the people
who were there to see him heard me playing, and
they all came over from that show like while they
(14:52):
were waiting for him. So I got to play like
the most packed room I had played up until that point.
So that was super super cool.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It is cool. That's really cool.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
It's very serendipitous.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, Okay, do you have any surprising hobbies that you
want to confess that nobody would know about you?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
My, I took up crocheting like at the end of
last year beginning of this year and went on like
a spree for five months where I just made a
whole bunch of stuff, and then spring came and I
kind of set them down, But I have a feeling
that as I get back into the fall and winter months,
I'll probably pick it up again.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
If you had a tattoo that represented you and your
music and your sound, what would it be and why?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I think it would be a Ladybug. And I think
that would be because ladybugs have been a symbol that
have been around me and my family and my life forever,
and they're they're like a symbol of luck. They're a
symbol of the past for me. And it's something that
even through all the times of like losing myself and
(15:54):
finding myself and you know all like musically and personally,
that's a thing I know that I've always loved and
always felt it was important. So yeah, I think it'd
be a little lady if.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You could be any animal? Should I assume you would
want to be an animal? Or is there I'm sorry,
a ladybug, or is there a different animal you'd want
to be?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
You know what? It could be ladybug. I would just
want to be something that flies. I've always wanted to fly.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, totally. I totally vibe with that. What's your go
to comfort food that you love snacking on?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Oh I don't know if you would consider it a
snacking kind of food, but I'm Italian, so pasta, any
pasta or my mom makes is down the hatch.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
All right?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Do you like carbo before a show, like two hours
before or three hours before?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Oh? Yeah, I like. I ran a half marathon like
a year and a bit ago and I learned about
carbloading for the first time. Yeah, and I was like,
this is a game changer. I need to exactly, I
need to do this before every show, like before every
really hard rehearsal. It really changed the game.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I gotta tell you, like a decade to go.
I used to do triathlons and marathons and all that
kind of crazy stuff, and I never quite trained as
it because I have a busy career, so I never
trained as much as I wanted to. But people were nuts.
Like I was respectable, but people were crazy. They were
literally like peeing on the side of the road and
(17:19):
not like you know it. I'd be like, I don't care,
you know, I'd go in the porta potty and I'd like,
but it was nuts. People are very crazy and how
addicted they are to all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Man, it's really do or die for some people. And
I commend it. I think it's insane, but it is
not me.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I love doing it. But yeah, it just you got
to do your body right. And I just definitely did
not train the way I should have. So, oh, tell
us about where people can buy your stuff, stream at
your socials, anything you want to share where people can
hook up with you, find you online and all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yes, I am on all streaming platforms. You can find
me just with my name Ninika, and then on Instagram
and TikTok and all that fun stuff. My handle is Yo.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's Minica awesome. So I want to thank you Mimika
so much for being a part of the Songwriter Show tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Thank you so much for having me. This has been
so fun.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
You're welcome man to all the listeners. Again, thank you
from the bottom of my heart for spending a few
minutes of your precious time with the two of us tonight.
You mean the world to us, and thank you. We
hope you will join us every single Tuesday evening as
we continue uncovering the inspiring journeys behind all of this music,
keep creating, connecting, and letting all of our stories be heard.
Until then, have a great night. I love you all.
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Are you a songwriter? Are you looking to turn your
songwriting passion into a full time gig gig? Whether you
are just at the start of your songwriting journey or
a seasoned industry professional, this show is made for you. You
we well. Welcome to the Songwriter Show, bringing together songwriting, news,
interviews and communitating. Now welcome your houst Toronto.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello again, and thank you for tuning in once again
to the Songwriter Sean Reality Radio one oh one. I'm Sarantos,
your host and fellow songwriter with a passion for crafting
stories through music. As someone who's been writing lyrics for
as long as I can remember, I know how every
song holds its own unique story. That's what brings us
together here every single Tuesday evening to celebrate the voices
(00:47):
behind the music we love. Tonight, I'm so excited to
have on the show. Mimika. She is a Toronto born,
New York City bound powerhouse who's already surpassed two million streams,
landed on Apple Music New and Alternative Spotlight, and completed
a North American tour that stretched from LA to New
York and now with their forthcoming EP, Beaming Daisies on
(01:09):
the horizon. She's taking her claim as one of the
most exciting new voices in global music.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And now welcome this week's special guest.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Guest, Welcome to show. How are you? I'm good?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Thank you? How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I'm doing well? So you got to tell us a
little bit about why you got what got you going
in this crazy direction of music and singing and songwriting.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh my gosh, Yes, of course. I have just always
been a storyteller from like as long as I can remember.
I grew up hearing my grandfather and my parents just
tell fantastical tales about their lives and it really put
the importance of storytelling in me from a really young age,
and that just translated to songwriting supernaturally, and that's how
(01:53):
I ended up here.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
All right, awesome. Are there any instruments that you play
or is it your voice?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yes? I learned piano when I was really young. I
got put in piano lessons, as most kids do, and
I hated it, as a lot of kids do, and
then found my way back to it as I learned
how to songwrite. I was like, Hey, you know what
that piano thing, I should really give it another try.
And then I kind of fell in love with it
and haven't looked back.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Tell us a little bit about your family. It was
your family musical at all or not really.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
No, but they have a huge appreciation for music. I
grew up listening to Queen and Billy Joel and Elton
John and really just so many different types of music.
My dad is really into rock and roll, so all
the like ACDC, Rolling Stones, and my mom has always
loved pop music, so I was listening to like Britney
(02:46):
Spears and Christina Aguilera. It was really well rounded. So
even though my parents and my family themselves aren't super musical,
there was always just such a love for music in
my life.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Do you have like a fondest musical memory in your house?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Oh, my gosh, that's a hard question. I think my
one of my fondest musical memories is I fell in
love with the musical Hairspray when I was really young
because we did it in a school production, and every
year for my birthday, I would force my family to
watch Hairspray with me. It was like my number one
birthday wish and it was the one day of the
(03:22):
year that they couldn't be like no, please, like let's
watch the New Avengers or something. So that's one of
my fondest memories.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
You ever been in any competitions?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yes, actually one competition like years ago, pre COVID times,
and I didn't make it to the end. I got
a couple of rounds in. But the biggest thing that
I took away from it was I made some really
great friends who I still like, collaborate with and keep
in touch with to this day.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It's almost better when you don't win, right, because then
you're not tied into exactly their contracts and doing all
that and exactly I don't want to say unfair stuff,
but all that crap.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, all the stuff that maybe doesn't one hundred align
with you and your vision, but it's kind of like
the molds that makes sense or seems marketable and stuff
like that. But you get like if you get out
just before then you kind of get all the benefits
of you know, meeting new people and learning about yourself
and having these awesome opportunities. So yeah, I think that,
(04:18):
I think no matter what you learn from it, which
is the biggest thing, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
For sure. So you've obviously performed a little bit. Do
you've ever get nervous before performance.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No, I love That's like the number one question I
get asked. And I do not get nervous at all
for performing. I love performing. I get nervous about if
anybody's going to show up, Like, no matter how many
pre sales I know there are, no matter how big
the venue is, I'm always like, and what if no
one comes? Then? Yeah, you know that's the only thing
(04:48):
I get nervous about.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, No, I get it. Okay. Do you practice routinely?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Oh? Absolutely. I think you never stop learning, and especially
in something like music, there's always more to learn. There's
always ways to push yourself in different fastest of things
to learn and to practice. I even just vocally, right
Like vocals are my primary and I work with my
vocal coach every week twice a month, Like I constantly
(05:16):
work with my vocal coach, just because I think that exactly, like,
there's always something to learn. So the more then the
more you practice, the more that you get into the repetition,
the easier it becomes on stage.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And I think that's something you just kind of get
with time. And I know for me, you want it
to be perfect and then you kind of let go
of that, and then at this point in my career,
I just want to be authentic, so I like literally
do all my vlogs and all these things. You know,
no makeup, totally authentic, who cares about lighting? And you're
just kind of like it's more the message than anything,
(05:50):
so there's no pressure to look perfect. And I don't know,
I don't know if that's what everyone should do, but
that's just kind of what I do.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I think there's a really cool line that can be
drawn between authenticity and rehearsal. I think the same for me,
Like when I'm making my tiktoks or I'm doing my blogs,
I just want to be really me and really authentic.
But when I'm you know, recording or performing and stuff
like that, I feel like there's something to be said
(06:16):
about I get it. I guess it depends on who
you want to be on stage, But for me, I'm like,
I want to put on a show and I want
people to know that there's been time and energy and
effort put into this, because I don't take it lightly
that people spend their time and their money and their
energy coming to see me, and I want to give
(06:37):
them like the most perfectly like rehearsed and thought out
show that I possibly can.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So tell us about the song that we're going to
hear in a few minutes. What inspired this one?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yes, So this song is called interesting Things, and basically
the punchline of the song is how come the only
interesting thing that ever happened to you is me? And
basically a couple years ago, I made a deal with
myself where I just wanted to keep to myself in
terms of drama and gossip and things like that. I
(07:07):
was like, it's really none of my business other things
that are going on. I'm not looking for drama. I'm
not getting involved in drama. And it's like as soon
as I made that decision, the universe was like, oh well,
and then stuck the most drama and stuff that it
could in my face. So the song is very much
(07:28):
a testament to remaining outside of outside of the negativity,
outside of like I hate am I allowed to swear
before I swear.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You know what on most platforms YE have, but not
on all Okay, I might get like, so you could
do a polite damm or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Absolutely, I don't like trash talking. I hate talking badly
about people and things and places and the song is
just about that and keeping myself out of drama even
though it keeps looking for me.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
All Right, I'll tell you what. Let's take a listen,
we'll come back. I can talk some more.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Okay, Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
All right, everybody check this out. Here we go.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
You got a story to tell.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Don't mean that you tell.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It well, just that you get some ins.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
You like to bring up the past, claim that your
friends always have got as coming near the way, some
jeryatting atom thing and daysies. So this startsn't some poet
really puts some that.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
How can you.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Say anything that ever had any Where's me? A mad
fa guess maybe you'll love him like it brings take
us bastage? Oh your scribble by just baby just sad?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
How can you.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Try to stay thing that over a many where's me?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I like to let her just go for a three minute?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I told you so, be then victims.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
That's the difference between the kernel love that you need
and love them and gathering some furiating blood I'm thing
and daisies, something wax and blood day because I'm not
to baby.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Some touch? How come you only?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
And trying to stay anything that ever Happenny's made.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
I'm fain guess maybe, but you love in the light
it brings take usself fu stage by your.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Scribbled pagees and baby just sit God, how come they
all trying to stay anything that ever Happnyles Medina book stage,
(10:54):
all your scribbled pages.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
They they just.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Said, so thank you for sharing that song. That was
(11:29):
very interesting and viby.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Do you do lyrics?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
First?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Do you humb out of melody? The music? Plunk it
on your piano? What do you do? How do you
get started?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
For me, honestly, the process changes depending on who I'm
in the room with or if I'm writing by myself,
But I would say ninety nine percent of the time
it starts with a concept or a word or a
line of lyrics, and then the rest kind of happens
simultaneously of I'm looking for chords at the same time
playing with different melodies, and the lyrics are coming through
(12:03):
because I'm like babbling as I'm looking for melodies. It's
really a fun process for me, especially when I'm writing
for myself, to be able to just have everything kind
of kind of come all at once, and then it's
also nice to flex different muscles. When I'm writing for
other artists, of they come to me with lyrics, or
they come to me with melodies, or we're top lining
and stuff like that, and to get to experiment in
(12:25):
different avenues. But for me, yeah, it kind of all
happens at the same time.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Okay, interesting. If you met a younger version of you,
what personal advice would you give them?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Oh, my goodness, I would tell her to be herself.
I think there was a lot of time where I
really wanted to be somebody else, or I wanted to
be a different version or something that I thought people
would like or be interested in. And the older I get,
the more I just keep trying to find my way
back to who I was before all of that and
(12:59):
who I really truly am. So that's what I would
tell her.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You're mirroring my own story there is. I think that's
so true. You do spend quite a bit of time
trying to be either someone you're not or something you're not,
or trying to be something you think people want you
to be, and it just takes time or confidence or
a divine light coming down from the clouds to make
you be yourself. I think so I'm glad you're there.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Thank you. Yeah, it's a journey, but it's an exciting one.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
So what's your jam? What's your favorite? Let's pick you
on eighties or nineties, whatever decade you prefer.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Oh my gosh, this is you're asking hard hitting questions.
I have to tell you. Let's go eighties. I actually
just saw the Michael Jackson musical literally this past weekend,
so right now, I've been jamming out to a lot
of Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
All Right, who would win a fight between Wonder Woman
and the Invisible Woman?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh my, I'm gonna say, are we talking like Sue Storm?
Like fantastic?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah? Yeah, invisible?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, I'm going to say invisible woman because I feel
like she has a leg up in this and said,
you know, like that'd be a really hard fight, but
I do feel like I feel like she has an
advantage there.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah. Are there any apps on your phone that you
just cannot live without?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
The weather app?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
The weather app?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Okay, all right, I like obsessively check the weather.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
All right, So you've you've traveled a little bit. What's
like the coolest gig or trip you've been on?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Coolest gig I've done? Has to be. I played la
at the Hotel Cafe in twenty twenty three and in
the room right next door was Jason Segal and he
was having like a crazy listening party or something, but
he was running super late, and so all the people
who were there to see him heard me playing, and
they all came over from that show like while they
(14:52):
were waiting for him. So I got to play like
the most packed room I had played up until that point.
So that was super super cool.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It is cool. That's really cool.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
It's very serendipitous.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah, Okay, do you have any surprising hobbies that you
want to confess that nobody would know about you?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
My, I took up crocheting like at the end of
last year beginning of this year and went on like
a spree for five months where I just made a
whole bunch of stuff, and then spring came and I
kind of set them down, But I have a feeling
that as I get back into the fall and winter months,
I'll probably pick it up again.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
If you had a tattoo that represented you and your
music and your sound, what would it be and why?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I think it would be a Ladybug. And I think
that would be because ladybugs have been a symbol that
have been around me and my family and my life forever,
and they're they're like a symbol of luck. They're a
symbol of the past for me. And it's something that
even through all the times of like losing myself and
(15:54):
finding myself and you know all like musically and personally,
that's a thing I know that I've always loved and
always felt it was important. So yeah, I think it'd
be a little lady if.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You could be any animal? Should I assume you would
want to be an animal? Or is there I'm sorry,
a ladybug, or is there a different animal you'd want
to be?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
You know what? It could be ladybug. I would just
want to be something that flies. I've always wanted to fly.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, totally. I totally vibe with that. What's your go
to comfort food that you love snacking on?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Oh I don't know if you would consider it a
snacking kind of food, but I'm Italian, so pasta, any
pasta or my mom makes is down the hatch.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
All right?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Do you like carbo before a show, like two hours
before or three hours before?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Oh? Yeah, I like. I ran a half marathon like
a year and a bit ago and I learned about
carbloading for the first time. Yeah, and I was like,
this is a game changer. I need to exactly, I
need to do this before every show, like before every
really hard rehearsal. It really changed the game.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I gotta tell you, like a decade to go.
I used to do triathlons and marathons and all that
kind of crazy stuff, and I never quite trained as
it because I have a busy career, so I never
trained as much as I wanted to. But people were nuts.
Like I was respectable, but people were crazy. They were
literally like peeing on the side of the road and
(17:19):
not like you know it. I'd be like, I don't care,
you know, I'd go in the porta potty and I'd like,
but it was nuts. People are very crazy and how
addicted they are to all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Man, it's really do or die for some people. And
I commend it. I think it's insane, but it is
not me.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I love doing it. But yeah, it just you got
to do your body right. And I just definitely did
not train the way I should have. So, oh, tell
us about where people can buy your stuff, stream at
your socials, anything you want to share where people can
hook up with you, find you online and all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yes, I am on all streaming platforms. You can find
me just with my name Ninika, and then on Instagram
and TikTok and all that fun stuff. My handle is Yo.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's Minica awesome. So I want to thank you Mimika
so much for being a part of the Songwriter Show tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Thank you so much for having me. This has been
so fun.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
You're welcome man to all the listeners. Again, thank you
from the bottom of my heart for spending a few
minutes of your precious time with the two of us tonight.
You mean the world to us, and thank you. We
hope you will join us every single Tuesday evening as
we continue uncovering the inspiring journeys behind all of this music,
keep creating, connecting, and letting all of our stories be heard.
Until then, have a great night. I love you all.
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Friday night time to odd Wine night up, any two cents, Let.
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The pod bega.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Love your life than the jery feed. Finally to rock
the enjoy the rock the.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
D's to feel.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
The close a fare clean your pads so cool to
touch only with your eyes.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Finger on the Trager.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Line it up.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Join the Leger and.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Your life than the jury.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Feed the finality, to.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Rock the line, the joy.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
To rock the.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
That's to feel like all good things and and but
we'll be back next week.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Got thank you for listening to The Songwriter Show. To
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keep the momentum going, head over to www Dot songwriter
show dot com and joined our free music community of artists, songwriters,
and producers.
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That's www.
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Dot songwriter show dot com.
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