April 7, 2025 • 24 mins
Celebrating the incredible success of "Never Walk Alone", BLOND:ISH joined us for the first time on America's Dance 30!
She shared w us how it was born w Stevie Appleton, how long it took to make, and how long ago they started working on it. She also shared the crazy story behind how "Self Love" was born! And we talked about her non-profit "Bye Bye Plastic", and how it came together.
We also got to know BLOND:ISH better w #FinkysFirsts!
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She shared w us how it was born w Stevie Appleton, how long it took to make, and how long ago they started working on it. She also shared the crazy story behind how "Self Love" was born! And we talked about her non-profit "Bye Bye Plastic", and how it came together.
We also got to know BLOND:ISH better w #FinkysFirsts!
Find out about:
- if music was the first thing she wanted to get into growing up
- the first time she visited the U.S.
- the first time she performed for a crowd
- the first EDM show/festival she went to
- the first dance song that made her fall in love w EDM
- the first person she can rely on to support her
Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let's do it now, Blondish.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Before we officially start this show, I gotta know, were
you actually born in Montreal?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Nah, you weren't.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
No, I went to university in Montreal.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I was about to say I knew I loved you
for a reason because I was born in Montreal.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
No way, No, I mean listen, I got all my
culture there, like all my electronic music culture. I got
a lot of it in Montreal. But I was born
in Ontario.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Sony Creek, gotcha. Well, you're still Canadian, so I still
love you.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Of course, we're very proud Canadians.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Absolutely Blondish welcome to America's Dance thirty for the first time.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Yo yo yo, counting down the biggest dance songs in
the country.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
This is a guess Dance thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It is so great finally meeting you.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We've got a lot to talk about, including your album,
your tour, your residency and IPITHA, your nonprofit, and of
course music. Congratulations on the incredible success of Never Walk Alone.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah wow, thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I can't wait to talk about how this song was
born with Stevie Appleton. But first let's get to know
Blondish a little better with Finky's first.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
All right now, because my brain is like, my brain
is very in the present, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So let let's let's give it a try.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Sounds good. You've taken a deep breath. That's all that matters.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I love finding out the origin story of artists. When
you were growing up, was music the first thing you
wanted to get into, or was that there's something else
you wanted to be when you grew up growing up?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I mean, like, you know, I grew up in middle class.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Canada, you know what I mean, So you think about
being a dentist or a kinesiologist or something.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
But from a very young age, my parents were doing parties. Okay,
Like my.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Dad had like this real to reel in the house,
and he was a sailor, so he would travel a
lot and he would always bring home vinyl. So there
was that like cockpit in the house, like that sound
cockpit with the amplifier and like these crazy speakers, and
you know, I was naturally drawn to that, and I
just want to turn it on and I couldn't, so
obviously I want to be there more, right, So I
(02:37):
realized my dad was actually a DJ because he used
to take that vinyl and record it to the real
to reel. But he never called himself a DJ. It
was just always turning in the house. And I later
realized that, you know what I mean, But I became
obsessed from a young age towards that like tech stuff
and the music and what's on there. And then I mean,
(02:58):
the funny thing was is that when my parents weren't
home one day, I was like four years old or something,
I went to my mom's sewing kid.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I took the needle out of sewing kid.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I went to the turntable and I couldn't turn on
because it was up there. I started turning the record
and I heard sound. I heard sound from the vinyl
come out, and like, I think that like Eureka moment,
Like since that you're talking about finkies first, Like that
was my first Eureka moment that stayed with me till
this day.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That is amazing. Now, did you learn the real to reel?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Because when I was growing up in radio, that's what
I learned on was reel to reel.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
No I didn't, I mean my dad, my dad, no, no, no,
my dad was just like he loved you know this
kind of like old technology. So he just loved the
analog sound of it, and just you know, that's what
he loved.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
That was there.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I mean we were around cdj's were around back then. Yeah,
that's what he was into.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So what you're saying is I just dated myself.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I didn't say it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I did.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
It's all good. Be happy you didn't deal with the
reel to reel. It was a pain in the ass.
My god, it looks like a pain in the ass.
But like the thing is is us producers, we still
try to do that, you know, like when we're not
traveling and we.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Try to go get that old tech and like see
what happens, you know, delays and stuff, because you know,
what you get out of that is sometimes magic.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
What's crazy to me is knowing the reel to reel
and h track. It just blows my mind to think
that musicians were creating on those pieces of equipment, because
I mean, they are just insane to work with. So
I couldn't even imagine.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, I think you had real artists fact then, not
that you don't have them today, but like back then,
they were really real.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You know that is a fact. Now, as we mentioned,
you grew up in Ontario. Do you remember the first
time visiting the US?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, actually I do. I went to Fort
We drove to Florida. We would would actually on spring breaks,
we would drive to Florida with my family and like
a bunch friends, so we would be following each other
in cars. It was so so middle class Canadian. It
would take us like two days, depends on how many
times we stopped. And we would go to Fort Myers
(05:11):
and I got understored the understood the Florida life very quickly.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I mean, I live in Miami now, but I was.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I guess my parents opened me up to those opportunities
back then.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
On spring break.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
That's so crazy because when we came down here, when
my parents dragged me here, we drove as well.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We drove all the way down the East coast.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What is it with Canadians driving to Florida?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I mean, I think at the time, and we could
only afford so much also, and it was somehow a
good idea to them.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I don't know. My dad loves to act poor also,
you know what I mean. So that was.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Just a part of the process we went through, like Kentucky,
North Carolina, Virginia was Virginia, like we we got to Georgia.
We got to Georgia was hot, you know, do you
remember that?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, you're like, this is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Now, of course you've got your and never walk along
own world tour going on right now, and you've performed
all over the world. But do you remember your first
time performing for a crowd?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Your thinky first are actually really easy.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You're welcome, thank you.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
So yeah, I was really into music and university.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I was.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I guess I realized I'm always obsessed with how things
are put together all the time. So I was an
obsessive raver where I was digging for music all the time.
I was trained spotting all the DJ's music. I knew
everything they were playing, you know what I mean, And
if I didn't, I would go figure it out, whether
it was all like on message boards or go to
the vinyl store or whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So I was starting to DJ.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Everyone knows me as a starter DJ and Gila Liberte
was doing a.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Party at his house. The guy from Sert to Sila
started Sark to Sila.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
All Canadians know him. He's a legend. So I was
one of his you know, he invited me to his house.
I met him through some friends and all the DJs.
You know, after three days of f one those parties,
everyone was all the DJs were tired there, but the
people were not tired. They were ready to keep going, right,
and I was the only person left there, you know,
(07:17):
like they're like, go play some music, and I'm like,
but I don't have my music.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But actually know what, I know all of his vinyl.
I know all that.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I know all his vinyl because we played vinyl that
Like when I first started, I was like, I'll just play.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Vinyls and I knew all his records and I killed it.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And you know, like the girl, the girls got naked,
jumped in the pool, like it was just one of
these crazy, crazy memories that I will never forget. And
I even got offered a residency like in Italy from
one of his friends. And that's how kind of my
career started.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That is amazing. And what an epic party that sounds
like it was.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I mean that was like, you know, he was doing
like legend day parties when I was.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Like I was seventeen.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Speaking of residencies, this summer, you're going to become the
first female resident to bring her own party to Pasha
in Ibfel, which is so amazing. But do you remember
the first EEDM festival or show that you went to do?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I remember the first M shoe.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
See they're getting tougher now.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, no, I think it was. It was when like
I went to raves.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I went to raves like I went to industry when
I was like thirteen. Wow, yeah, I was making I
made fake ID like I was really. I told you
I was really obsessed with music from a young age.
And I mean I also was. I told you, I'm
obsessed with how things are put together. So I was
also making computers when I was twelve years old. So
because I don't know, I love zeros and ones. That's
(08:58):
why I went to Montreal. I got a computer science degree.
But I didn't realize any of this till later in life.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You know. I was just obsessed with learning.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
So I was making fagg d's when I was thirteen,
and I was I was going.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
To like these these these raves in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Hopefully the statute of limitation has expired.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, we're just we're just going for the music.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, but I'm talking about making fake id's.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Okay, I'm not really. I don't live in Canada anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Let's just screw it now.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Of course, Never Walk Alone is having incredible success. You've
got your other smash self love. But do you remember
the first E d M song that made you fall
in love with dance music?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I mean there's a few it was. It was in
the like the late nineties.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
It's like Believe by Share No no, no, no, nothing
against Share.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Oh my god, it was like all those nineties track
like mister Vane, Like I.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Heard it, and god, mister Vane.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I was.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But listen, everyone needs their gateway. Right when you're nine
years old or whatever, and you hear a song.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
You're not going to raves anyway, You're not in the culture,
but you need something to bring me into it.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So I was in.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Hungary seeing my family on a summer vacation and like
through the forest I heard music. We were walking late
at night and I'm like to my family, what is that?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
What is playing? Like what is that?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Like that for?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Like what is that? Kid? You know, like what is that?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So you know, they told me somehow we figured out
the song and then from that I started my journey,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
That was back in the day of LaBouche, right, be
my lover.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I think I was a little late because I think
the music came out already and I was, you know,
it was later in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
But that's kind of what brought me into that.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You know, well, mister Vain is definitely a classic. What
a great song. If you want to say, if you're
looking for another one, that's fine. We could pause here
for a second.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Don't you, billy, You're fine. It's a defected record.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'm so bad, Like it used to be the best,
but then since there's like six thousand songs that come
out every day.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
The same, you know, it's so funny.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I was talking to the guys a Loud Luxury last
week and they were mentioning about how they can barely
remember all the names of their songs that they put out,
for sure.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
But that's that's like a thing that happens. Like we'll
be in restaurants and then you'll hear a beat and
you're like, I play that song.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You're like, no, that's my song. It's pretty bad.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Like my wife Leanna, she'll she'll notice my track is
playing when we're somewhere and you hear.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It before I do.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
She'll notice in the first two beats we're so in,
We're so.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
In the fishbowl, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Like like we were in Jamaica in November and we
made twenty five songs, you know. So I just and
also the brain is very presently focused. So it is
what it is.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
That's why I have to have everything written down because
my brain has so much going on, like five years ahead,
that I have to have everything written down.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, and whatever works for you, you know what I mean.
Like I'm the same I love to write down.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Finally, in Thinkey's First in honor of this success of
Never Walk Alone. You know, it's a song about unity
and support. Who's the first person that you could trust
to support you?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I would say my parents.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
But at the end of the day, if we want
to be in the spirit of Never Walk Alone, it
wasn't the first person, but it should be the first person.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
But you realize throughout your journey that it's you.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Oh. I love that everyone has their own time of
realizing that. It depends what tools you have, you know,
And I think the whole idea around the Never Walk
Alone album is to bring people those tools, or at
least if they want them, you know what I mean.
Otherwise they can just listen to the album, but the
tools are there, especially never walk alone.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Let's talk about this smash. How was? I said, Born
with Stevie Appleton.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Okay, so it was actually we were end of the summer.
We went to we all met in La. You know,
I just came back from Abisa. The europe summer was done,
and you're like, you're done with it, so you're like
you're excited to come back to the US. And then
we all met in the studio and it was around
(13:23):
five pm, okay, and I was just brought my energy
from the summer. I said, what intentions I want to
put into the record? I was like, I want this
to have legs. I want to make you know, energy
is infinitely malleable. This album and whatever music we're making
here is just an experiment on how we can take
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energy and infinitate you know, mouth it's infinitely malleable.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Okay, there you go, that's your word.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
And it was just an experiment into that, like, how
can we help people to get more connected here? How
can we help people do that through our music? And
then we just started writing, and we started acoustic. We
started with a guitar riffs, you know, whereas an electronic
music we're always like a kick, right, drums, bass, you know,
(14:11):
and then some sort of pad just to get a groove,
and then you know, you keep writing. But like when
when you're in La, when I'm in La making music.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
For some we always started acoustic.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I love that, and I think that's why maybe the
music is sounding a bit wider now, but it still has.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
The essence of, you know, my roots of electronic music.
So we made the song in three hours.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Oh my god, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
We ordered it. We made it in three hours. By
eight o'clock, we were like, we're hungry, let's order pizza.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
And we ordered a fizza and I was, I was,
you know, I was doing IVF at the time, so
I actually I had to leave around nine.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And then he just finished the end of the verses well,
and then the first version.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Was the one I was playing, and like, you know,
we met up a couple times later just to you know,
fix a few things.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
But I was like, no, guys, the demo, the demo
sounds the best. I want everything, you know, like put
the base back like how it was. You know, you
know how it is.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
You try to make it better, but actually now the
demo I have demo syndrome.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Actually, well, two things about that story.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
One, I always say that what makes an amazing dance
song is when you can strip it away and it's
still an incredible song. So I love that you start
acoustic because that totally makes a great song.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Totally. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I mean, one day it would be nice to put
out the acoustic version because it's also beautiful.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
And secondly, I remember chatting with bb Rexa and she
mentioned about how it's crazy how some of the most
popular songs are the ones that are created very quickly.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
It is right because it just comes from such a pure,
authentic place, and that's what we are. You know.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I know you guys released it in August of twenty
twenty four, but when did you actually start working on it.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
We made it in September twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh wow, a year before you released it.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
That's actually something we're trying to figure out, is that
we make all this music and your fans and you
you want to take that energy like you had in
the studio when you finished the track, and we're working
on it. You want to take that energy and that
content and translate into our release in two weeks a month,
you know, because that's that we want to figure out
how to get it closer and closer to the actual
(16:28):
incubation of the.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Song because the way the record labels work.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Is just everything takes time, contracts, deals, blah blah blah.
So that's something we're actually working on, is like, how
can you know if I don't want.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
To take two years to make an album.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
We were in Jamaica and November and we made twenty
five songs and we can make a story out of
eight of those songs and release it next week. So
I'm trying to figure that formula out. And this is
a call out to everyone, let's figure it out, because
I think everything's changed now, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, there's so much that goes into a release, yeah
right away.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
And that's also forces people, not forces people, that that's
music and it's more authentic form in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Obviously need to tweak stuff, but then you get.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Anal and then you can't give up to not like
there's so many things.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Speaking of your album, another amazing song off of it
is self Love I heard there's an incredible story behind it.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Things don't come easy always, you know, like good things don't.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Always come easy, So I had I trusted this process.
But yeah, I mean it basically started with I got
a top line and it was the vocal of self love,
and I started writing to it because the message was
so beautiful, right, And I was like, this is this
is so fitting for the album because of the message.
(17:56):
It's exactly the same message but said in her own way,
in the singer's own way that I could never express
like that.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So I wrote wrote to it, and I was like, Okay,
look what's a nostalgic way. What's something nostalgic I can
put under this? Right? So it's like those gated type
of organs which has.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
A minor type of church field, but.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
For me, that was nostalgia, right.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
And then I did my you know, classic kind of
Afro type of vibe, and then we took it back
to the artist and we're like, okay, the song is ready.
And then at that point, I don't know what she
was going through in her career or whatever, but she
was like, Okay, it sounds amazing, but you know, you
can't use my voice or like I'm not this is
not the part. You know, I'm not in this part
(18:41):
of my career. I don't want to use my voice
on the record. Can you please go find someone else?
And we were like devastated because literally we would get
tear teary eyed when we would listen to her sing,
listen to the vocals, and same with my wife, and
same with anyone.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Who listened to it, right, we all.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Had the same emotion just to get this like big No.
We were devastated, you know. So we went out. We
went to so many different singers, like very talented ones,
and no one came back with the essence. You know,
obviously it's her authentic experience. That's what you feel through
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her voice and her lyrics.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
No one else is going to be able to do that.
I knew that the whole time, but I had no
other choice moment.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So we begged. We you know, we went, We went
many circles around and we begged. And I think one time, uh,
you know, Leanna was very pregnant at the time and
she she was with her mom showing her the album.
We were in a besa and she was like, oh,
mom listened to Viv's album they were listening to and
they hurt Self Love, and then I both started crying
(19:54):
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
She's like eight months pregnant, and Leanna like called me.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
She's like, I'll call her, give me the phone, I'll
call her, you know, because there's that it makes me
cry every time I listen to this song.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
My mom started crying, and you know, the song doesn't
do with her. She feels it.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
So anyway, we took another like we reached out to
her again, told her the story, our authentic story. Now,
say listen, like everyone needs to feel this, because do
you understand that what you're experiencing so many other people
in this world are experienced, and that that's like a
little beacon.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
For them, that your your voice is their beacon.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
And if I could beat a facilitator of that through
never Walk Alone, we.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Need to go for it, you know. And they said, Okay,
she just does it.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
She didn't want to be named on the records, like
she totally changed her her career choices. You know how
artists are. We'll all go through that at some point.
And at least she said, yes, the self love is
now all yours.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Oh that is amazing. Now what's the time for in
all that going on? How long was that a year?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Oh my god, yeah, it took a long time.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Well, we knew when the album was coming out and
I made that try. It was one of the first
tracks I made.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You know, So it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
And that's the power of intention, you understand.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Like I tell all my fans that this is the
math of our party too. One plus one equals eleven.
It's like, if you have an intention and I didn't
make I'm not making this stuff up. If you want
to believe it or you want to put it to practice,
it actually works.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
One plus one equals eleven.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
You have an intention, okay, you put some attention on
the intention.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You don't just be like, oh I hope it works
out a hope of books.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You put attention on it. You make it happen somehow.
Little steps not equals eleven. Eleven is like manifestation.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I love that. I just love your attitude. It is
just so infectious. Now, let's chat really quick about your
incredible nonprofit. How did by Byeplastic come together on.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
The dance floor? Yeah? Actually in Brazil that's crazy full circle.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, I mean again, through my travels through everything in life.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I figured it out.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I just like everything when it's in balance. I'm a
Libra and when things are out of balance, I notice.
I notice it, and if I can do something about it,
I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
So I was playing at Warong in Brazil.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
It's one of the best places to play in the
world as a DJ, and there's this like long tunnel
type of vibe and at the end of the tunnel
there's this really lush jungle.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
There's three thousand people in front of you then a
lush jungle.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
So when I, you know, I finished the set, the
people left and all I saw was the beautiful.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Sunrise lush jungle and.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
These like robot looking ladies cleaning people, like with a
mountain of water bottles and that thing, that dichotomy or
whatever that word is, that difference. I was like, that
doesn't feel right. You know, we're in a lush jungle,
but there's these plastic bottles, mountain of them in.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Front of a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, it's like, what can I do about this? I
actually know, with one phone call away, I.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Know everyone in the music industry, So what can I
do about this? I can do something and that's how
Bybyplastic was born and I found a found my co founder, Camille.
I found Around she said, so, which is like a
female based like Google groups all women in the music industry.
So it's awesome, like we're still together today and like
she's killing it.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
That is so incredible. Well, thank you for doing that.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Congratulations on the album, Congratulations on the tour, Congratulations on
the upcoming residency in Ibitha, and of course congratulations on
the incredible success of Never Walk Alone Blondeish. It is
so awesome finally meeting you. Thank you for your time
with us. On America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, it's awesome to think it's funny.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
It's kind of my on like that two Canadians are
talking on America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
America's Dance thirty, counting down the biggest dance songs in
the country.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
America's Dance thirty
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let's do it now, Blondish.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Before we officially start this show, I gotta know, were
you actually born in Montreal?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Nah, you weren't.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
No, I went to university in Montreal.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I was about to say I knew I loved you
for a reason because I was born in Montreal.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
No way, No, I mean listen, I got all my
culture there, like all my electronic music culture. I got
a lot of it in Montreal. But I was born
in Ontario.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Sony Creek, gotcha. Well, you're still Canadian, so I still
love you.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Of course, we're very proud Canadians.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Absolutely Blondish welcome to America's Dance thirty for the first time.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Yo yo yo, counting down the biggest dance songs in
the country.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
This is a guess Dance thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It is so great finally meeting you.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We've got a lot to talk about, including your album,
your tour, your residency and IPITHA, your nonprofit, and of
course music. Congratulations on the incredible success of Never Walk Alone.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah wow, thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I can't wait to talk about how this song was
born with Stevie Appleton. But first let's get to know
Blondish a little better with Finky's first.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
All right now, because my brain is like, my brain
is very in the present, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So let let's let's give it a try.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Sounds good. You've taken a deep breath. That's all that matters.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I love finding out the origin story of artists. When
you were growing up, was music the first thing you
wanted to get into, or was that there's something else
you wanted to be when you grew up growing up?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I mean, like, you know, I grew up in middle class.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Canada, you know what I mean, So you think about
being a dentist or a kinesiologist or something.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
But from a very young age, my parents were doing parties. Okay,
Like my.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Dad had like this real to reel in the house,
and he was a sailor, so he would travel a
lot and he would always bring home vinyl. So there
was that like cockpit in the house, like that sound
cockpit with the amplifier and like these crazy speakers, and
you know, I was naturally drawn to that, and I
just want to turn it on and I couldn't, so
obviously I want to be there more, right, So I
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realized my dad was actually a DJ because he used
to take that vinyl and record it to the real
to reel. But he never called himself a DJ. It
was just always turning in the house. And I later
realized that, you know what I mean, But I became
obsessed from a young age towards that like tech stuff
and the music and what's on there. And then I mean,
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the funny thing was is that when my parents weren't
home one day, I was like four years old or something,
I went to my mom's sewing kid.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I took the needle out of sewing kid.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I went to the turntable and I couldn't turn on
because it was up there. I started turning the record
and I heard sound. I heard sound from the vinyl
come out, and like, I think that like Eureka moment,
Like since that you're talking about finkies first, Like that
was my first Eureka moment that stayed with me till
this day.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That is amazing. Now, did you learn the real to reel?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Because when I was growing up in radio, that's what
I learned on was reel to reel.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
No I didn't, I mean my dad, my dad, no, no, no,
my dad was just like he loved you know this
kind of like old technology. So he just loved the
analog sound of it, and just you know, that's what
he loved.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
That was there.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I mean we were around cdj's were around back then. Yeah,
that's what he was into.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So what you're saying is I just dated myself.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I didn't say it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I did.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
It's all good. Be happy you didn't deal with the
reel to reel. It was a pain in the ass.
My god, it looks like a pain in the ass.
But like the thing is is us producers, we still
try to do that, you know, like when we're not
traveling and we.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Try to go get that old tech and like see
what happens, you know, delays and stuff, because you know,
what you get out of that is sometimes magic.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
What's crazy to me is knowing the reel to reel
and h track. It just blows my mind to think
that musicians were creating on those pieces of equipment, because
I mean, they are just insane to work with. So
I couldn't even imagine.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, I think you had real artists fact then, not
that you don't have them today, but like back then,
they were really real.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You know that is a fact. Now, as we mentioned,
you grew up in Ontario. Do you remember the first
time visiting the US?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, actually I do. I went to Fort
We drove to Florida. We would would actually on spring breaks,
we would drive to Florida with my family and like
a bunch friends, so we would be following each other
in cars. It was so so middle class Canadian. It
would take us like two days, depends on how many
times we stopped. And we would go to Fort Myers
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and I got understored the understood the Florida life very quickly.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I mean, I live in Miami now, but I was.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I guess my parents opened me up to those opportunities
back then.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
On spring break.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
That's so crazy because when we came down here, when
my parents dragged me here, we drove as well.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We drove all the way down the East coast.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What is it with Canadians driving to Florida?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I mean, I think at the time, and we could
only afford so much also, and it was somehow a
good idea to them.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I don't know. My dad loves to act poor also,
you know what I mean. So that was.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Just a part of the process we went through, like Kentucky,
North Carolina, Virginia was Virginia, like we we got to Georgia.
We got to Georgia was hot, you know, do you
remember that?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, you're like, this is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Now, of course you've got your and never walk along
own world tour going on right now, and you've performed
all over the world. But do you remember your first
time performing for a crowd?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Your thinky first are actually really easy.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You're welcome, thank you.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
So yeah, I was really into music and university.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I was.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I guess I realized I'm always obsessed with how things
are put together all the time. So I was an
obsessive raver where I was digging for music all the time.
I was trained spotting all the DJ's music. I knew
everything they were playing, you know what I mean, And
if I didn't, I would go figure it out, whether
it was all like on message boards or go to
the vinyl store or whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So I was starting to DJ.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Everyone knows me as a starter DJ and Gila Liberte
was doing a.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Party at his house. The guy from Sert to Sila
started Sark to Sila.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
All Canadians know him. He's a legend. So I was
one of his you know, he invited me to his house.
I met him through some friends and all the DJs.
You know, after three days of f one those parties,
everyone was all the DJs were tired there, but the
people were not tired. They were ready to keep going, right,
and I was the only person left there, you know,
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like they're like, go play some music, and I'm like,
but I don't have my music.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But actually know what, I know all of his vinyl.
I know all that.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I know all his vinyl because we played vinyl that
Like when I first started, I was like, I'll just play.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Vinyls and I knew all his records and I killed it.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And you know, like the girl, the girls got naked,
jumped in the pool, like it was just one of
these crazy, crazy memories that I will never forget. And
I even got offered a residency like in Italy from
one of his friends. And that's how kind of my
career started.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That is amazing. And what an epic party that sounds
like it was.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I mean that was like, you know, he was doing
like legend day parties when I was.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Like I was seventeen.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Speaking of residencies, this summer, you're going to become the
first female resident to bring her own party to Pasha
in Ibfel, which is so amazing. But do you remember
the first EEDM festival or show that you went to do?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I remember the first M shoe.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
See they're getting tougher now.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, no, I think it was. It was when like
I went to raves.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I went to raves like I went to industry when
I was like thirteen. Wow, yeah, I was making I
made fake ID like I was really. I told you
I was really obsessed with music from a young age.
And I mean I also was. I told you, I'm
obsessed with how things are put together. So I was
also making computers when I was twelve years old. So
because I don't know, I love zeros and ones. That's
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why I went to Montreal. I got a computer science degree.
But I didn't realize any of this till later in life.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You know. I was just obsessed with learning.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
So I was making fagg d's when I was thirteen,
and I was I was going.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
To like these these these raves in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Hopefully the statute of limitation has expired.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, we're just we're just going for the music.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, but I'm talking about making fake id's.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Okay, I'm not really. I don't live in Canada anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Let's just screw it now.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Of course, Never Walk Alone is having incredible success. You've
got your other smash self love. But do you remember
the first E d M song that made you fall
in love with dance music?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I mean there's a few it was. It was in
the like the late nineties.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
It's like Believe by Share No no, no, no, nothing
against Share.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Oh my god, it was like all those nineties track
like mister Vane, Like I.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Heard it, and god, mister Vane.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I was.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
But listen, everyone needs their gateway. Right when you're nine
years old or whatever, and you hear a song.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
You're not going to raves anyway, You're not in the culture,
but you need something to bring me into it.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So I was in.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Hungary seeing my family on a summer vacation and like
through the forest I heard music. We were walking late
at night and I'm like to my family, what is that?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
What is playing? Like what is that?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Like that for?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Like what is that? Kid? You know, like what is that?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So you know, they told me somehow we figured out
the song and then from that I started my journey,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
That was back in the day of LaBouche, right, be
my lover.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I think I was a little late because I think
the music came out already and I was, you know,
it was later in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
But that's kind of what brought me into that.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You know, well, mister Vain is definitely a classic. What
a great song. If you want to say, if you're
looking for another one, that's fine. We could pause here
for a second.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Don't you, billy, You're fine. It's a defected record.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'm so bad, Like it used to be the best,
but then since there's like six thousand songs that come
out every day.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
The same, you know, it's so funny.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I was talking to the guys a Loud Luxury last
week and they were mentioning about how they can barely
remember all the names of their songs that they put out,
for sure.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
But that's that's like a thing that happens. Like we'll
be in restaurants and then you'll hear a beat and
you're like, I play that song.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You're like, no, that's my song. It's pretty bad.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Like my wife Leanna, she'll she'll notice my track is
playing when we're somewhere and you hear.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It before I do.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
She'll notice in the first two beats we're so in,
We're so.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
In the fishbowl, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Like like we were in Jamaica in November and we
made twenty five songs, you know. So I just and
also the brain is very presently focused. So it is
what it is.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
That's why I have to have everything written down because
my brain has so much going on, like five years ahead,
that I have to have everything written down.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, and whatever works for you, you know what I mean.
Like I'm the same I love to write down.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Finally, in Thinkey's First in honor of this success of
Never Walk Alone. You know, it's a song about unity
and support. Who's the first person that you could trust
to support you?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I would say my parents.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
But at the end of the day, if we want
to be in the spirit of Never Walk Alone, it
wasn't the first person, but it should be the first person.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
But you realize throughout your journey that it's you.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Oh. I love that everyone has their own time of
realizing that. It depends what tools you have, you know,
And I think the whole idea around the Never Walk
Alone album is to bring people those tools, or at
least if they want them, you know what I mean.
Otherwise they can just listen to the album, but the
tools are there, especially never walk alone.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Let's talk about this smash. How was? I said, Born
with Stevie Appleton.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Okay, so it was actually we were end of the summer.
We went to we all met in La. You know,
I just came back from Abisa. The europe summer was done,
and you're like, you're done with it, so you're like
you're excited to come back to the US. And then
we all met in the studio and it was around
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five pm, okay, and I was just brought my energy
from the summer. I said, what intentions I want to
put into the record? I was like, I want this
to have legs. I want to make you know, energy
is infinitely malleable. This album and whatever music we're making
here is just an experiment on how we can take
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energy and infinitate you know, mouth it's infinitely malleable.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Okay, there you go, that's your word.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
And it was just an experiment into that, like, how
can we help people to get more connected here? How
can we help people do that through our music? And
then we just started writing, and we started acoustic. We
started with a guitar riffs, you know, whereas an electronic
music we're always like a kick, right, drums, bass, you know,
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and then some sort of pad just to get a groove,
and then you know, you keep writing. But like when
when you're in La, when I'm in La making music.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
For some we always started acoustic.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I love that, and I think that's why maybe the
music is sounding a bit wider now, but it still has.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
The essence of, you know, my roots of electronic music.
So we made the song in three hours.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Oh my god, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
We ordered it. We made it in three hours. By
eight o'clock, we were like, we're hungry, let's order pizza.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
And we ordered a fizza and I was, I was,
you know, I was doing IVF at the time, so
I actually I had to leave around nine.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And then he just finished the end of the verses well,
and then the first version.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Was the one I was playing, and like, you know,
we met up a couple times later just to you know,
fix a few things.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
But I was like, no, guys, the demo, the demo
sounds the best. I want everything, you know, like put
the base back like how it was. You know, you
know how it is.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
You try to make it better, but actually now the
demo I have demo syndrome.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Actually, well, two things about that story.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
One, I always say that what makes an amazing dance
song is when you can strip it away and it's
still an incredible song. So I love that you start
acoustic because that totally makes a great song.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Totally. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I mean, one day it would be nice to put
out the acoustic version because it's also beautiful.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
And secondly, I remember chatting with bb Rexa and she
mentioned about how it's crazy how some of the most
popular songs are the ones that are created very quickly.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
It is right because it just comes from such a pure,
authentic place, and that's what we are. You know.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I know you guys released it in August of twenty
twenty four, but when did you actually start working on it.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
We made it in September twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh wow, a year before you released it.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
That's actually something we're trying to figure out, is that
we make all this music and your fans and you
you want to take that energy like you had in
the studio when you finished the track, and we're working
on it. You want to take that energy and that
content and translate into our release in two weeks a month,
you know, because that's that we want to figure out
how to get it closer and closer to the actual
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incubation of the.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Song because the way the record labels work.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Is just everything takes time, contracts, deals, blah blah blah.
So that's something we're actually working on, is like, how
can you know if I don't want.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
To take two years to make an album.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
We were in Jamaica and November and we made twenty
five songs and we can make a story out of
eight of those songs and release it next week. So
I'm trying to figure that formula out. And this is
a call out to everyone, let's figure it out, because
I think everything's changed now, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, there's so much that goes into a release, yeah
right away.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
And that's also forces people, not forces people, that that's
music and it's more authentic form in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Obviously need to tweak stuff, but then you get.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Anal and then you can't give up to not like
there's so many things.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Speaking of your album, another amazing song off of it
is self Love I heard there's an incredible story behind it.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Things don't come easy always, you know, like good things don't.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Always come easy, So I had I trusted this process.
But yeah, I mean it basically started with I got
a top line and it was the vocal of self love,
and I started writing to it because the message was
so beautiful, right, And I was like, this is this
is so fitting for the album because of the message.
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It's exactly the same message but said in her own way,
in the singer's own way that I could never express
like that.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So I wrote wrote to it, and I was like, Okay,
look what's a nostalgic way. What's something nostalgic I can
put under this? Right? So it's like those gated type
of organs which has.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
A minor type of church field, but.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
For me, that was nostalgia, right.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
And then I did my you know, classic kind of
Afro type of vibe, and then we took it back
to the artist and we're like, okay, the song is ready.
And then at that point, I don't know what she
was going through in her career or whatever, but she
was like, Okay, it sounds amazing, but you know, you
can't use my voice or like I'm not this is
not the part. You know, I'm not in this part
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of my career. I don't want to use my voice
on the record. Can you please go find someone else?
And we were like devastated because literally we would get
tear teary eyed when we would listen to her sing,
listen to the vocals, and same with my wife, and
same with anyone.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Who listened to it, right, we all.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Had the same emotion just to get this like big No.
We were devastated, you know. So we went out. We
went to so many different singers, like very talented ones,
and no one came back with the essence. You know,
obviously it's her authentic experience. That's what you feel through
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her voice and her lyrics.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
No one else is going to be able to do that.
I knew that the whole time, but I had no
other choice moment.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So we begged. We you know, we went, We went
many circles around and we begged. And I think one time, uh,
you know, Leanna was very pregnant at the time and
she she was with her mom showing her the album.
We were in a besa and she was like, oh,
mom listened to Viv's album they were listening to and
they hurt Self Love, and then I both started crying
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at the same time.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
She's like eight months pregnant, and Leanna like called me.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
She's like, I'll call her, give me the phone, I'll
call her, you know, because there's that it makes me
cry every time I listen to this song.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
My mom started crying, and you know, the song doesn't
do with her. She feels it.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
So anyway, we took another like we reached out to
her again, told her the story, our authentic story. Now,
say listen, like everyone needs to feel this, because do
you understand that what you're experiencing so many other people
in this world are experienced, and that that's like a
little beacon.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
For them, that your your voice is their beacon.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
And if I could beat a facilitator of that through
never Walk Alone, we.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Need to go for it, you know. And they said, Okay,
she just does it.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
She didn't want to be named on the records, like
she totally changed her her career choices. You know how
artists are. We'll all go through that at some point.
And at least she said, yes, the self love is
now all yours.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Oh that is amazing. Now what's the time for in
all that going on? How long was that a year?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Oh my god, yeah, it took a long time.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Well, we knew when the album was coming out and
I made that try. It was one of the first
tracks I made.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You know, So it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
And that's the power of intention, you understand.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Like I tell all my fans that this is the
math of our party too. One plus one equals eleven.
It's like, if you have an intention and I didn't
make I'm not making this stuff up. If you want
to believe it or you want to put it to practice,
it actually works.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
One plus one equals eleven.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
You have an intention, okay, you put some attention on
the intention.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You don't just be like, oh I hope it works
out a hope of books.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You put attention on it. You make it happen somehow.
Little steps not equals eleven. Eleven is like manifestation.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I love that. I just love your attitude. It is
just so infectious. Now, let's chat really quick about your
incredible nonprofit. How did by Byeplastic come together on.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
The dance floor? Yeah? Actually in Brazil that's crazy full circle.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, I mean again, through my travels through everything in life.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I figured it out.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I just like everything when it's in balance. I'm a
Libra and when things are out of balance, I notice.
I notice it, and if I can do something about it,
I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
So I was playing at Warong in Brazil.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
It's one of the best places to play in the
world as a DJ, and there's this like long tunnel
type of vibe and at the end of the tunnel
there's this really lush jungle.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
There's three thousand people in front of you then a
lush jungle.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
So when I, you know, I finished the set, the
people left and all I saw was the beautiful.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Sunrise lush jungle and.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
These like robot looking ladies cleaning people, like with a
mountain of water bottles and that thing, that dichotomy or
whatever that word is, that difference. I was like, that
doesn't feel right. You know, we're in a lush jungle,
but there's these plastic bottles, mountain of them in.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Front of a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, it's like, what can I do about this? I
actually know, with one phone call away, I.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Know everyone in the music industry, So what can I
do about this? I can do something and that's how
Bybyplastic was born and I found a found my co founder, Camille.
I found Around she said, so, which is like a
female based like Google groups all women in the music industry.
So it's awesome, like we're still together today and like
she's killing it.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
That is so incredible. Well, thank you for doing that.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Congratulations on the album, Congratulations on the tour, Congratulations on
the upcoming residency in Ibitha, and of course congratulations on
the incredible success of Never Walk Alone Blondeish. It is
so awesome finally meeting you. Thank you for your time
with us. On America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, it's awesome to think it's funny.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
It's kind of my on like that two Canadians are
talking on America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
America's Dance thirty, counting down the biggest dance songs in
the country.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
America's Dance thirty
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