December 1, 2024 • 30 mins
Hey Rockers! On this episode of All Bets Are Off, Robby sits down with Alyxx to discuss her new single (End of me), her first tour, an upcoming EP in early 2025 and of course our famous lightning round full of laughs! Be sure to like and Subscribe on all your favorite streaming services and leave a comment or review!
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Bring you another episode of the All Bets Are Off Podcast.
And today my guest for her second time, well third
if you count the Halloween cameo that she did just recently,
is Alex and we are going to get into her
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Speaker 4 (01:16):
So let's get this interview.
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CD buy.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Alex, welcome back to the All bet Through Podcast. How
you doing tonight?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Hy I'm doing great. How about yourself?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I am ready to do this interview. That's that's how
I am, Helia. I want to start with the big
news is your new single, and I want you to
just take us away, tell us about it, the name
of it, where the inspiration came from. Let's hear it
all cool?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
All right? So the new song is called end of Me,
and this was the last song I wrote for the EP.
And I normally write everything first, So I normally do
like a full production at my own studio which I'm in,
and then I go to the studio and then we
just add the actual instruments and whatnot, because I use
like MIDI for everything. But for this one, I really
wanted it to be a heavy, very guitar driven, very
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like powerful. So I sat down with my drummer Rossell
Blis guitar Sackie and Brandon as well plays guitar, and
I told him I was very influenced by like orbit
culture at the time, and I still am. But they
have a song, actually a couple of songs anyways, it's
very powerful and very just like driving, like aggressive songs.
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So we just kind of like sat down and kind
of just started building and he was coming up with
some riffs and I started humming along and it just
kind of organically came together. That was like the first
song we really sat together and wrote from scratch without
any like preconceived idea. So that was really cool and
it's very special to me. And the lyrics are just
about wanting to be with somebody so much and then
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being with them and realizing that this is not what
you thought and just kind of leaving disappointed, but realizing
that like it's not the end of the world and
you'll be okay, but it just sucks. Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
That's pretty deep meaning behind that.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
So now when you guys are writing the song, you
says it's the first time you approach songwriting in this
specific type of way. Do you think that that's what
you're going to do moving forward because you enjoyed it
so much?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Or yeah, definitely. I Mean sometimes I come up with
like an idea, and what normally happens is I come
up with like a core idea and I'll record that
and then I just end up, like the entire song
usually just comes out, so it's not normally a plan.
But yeah, definitely have more songs like that because it
was very organic and we've been working together, like especially
me and Zach have been working together for I think
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seven years now, so we have a very good understanding
of like how we vibe, and with Brandon it's been
since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So oh wow. Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So you said you went into it with no preconceived
notions or anything about you know, what was going on.
So does that mean even lyrically, you had no idea
what the direction that the song was going to go
in at all.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah. None. When I heard the chorus, I started humming
along and then what I normally do is I just
start talking and improvising and just seeing what comes out.
And the lyrics started to come together, and I was like, oh okay,
and then I solidified like a concept that I wanted
for the song, and then I just kind of like
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build around that.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
So you said it it's like a deep meaning song
to you, So do you do you feel like when
you're recording and you're singing these songs that have the
deeper meanings, does that help you really like belt these
out to Like I don't know if you're like me
or not, but being in a studios is hard for
me because I like to have an audience, and when
I don't have an audience, I don't feel like I'm
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singing my best, so I have to like envision that
I'm performing. So for a song that has a lot
of deep meaning, is it easier for you to get
into that headspace of just belting it out?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I guess I don't know. I feel very comfortable in
the studio. I think, first of all, I'm usually by myself,
like especially when I recorded these songs for the actual
EP for the single, I recorded at the studio, but
I tracked myself, and Zach usually is the one who's
like tracking everything, but I was like, you know what,
for the last couple of songs, it was like, let
me just do it because I am very controlling when
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it comes to like how I sound, and it's just
it's so much easier for me to do it because
I do it, you know, at home all the time.
So I like kicked them out for like four hours
and I just tracked everything myself. So it was I
like it because I feel like I'm like this my
own little like cave, So it was a lot more
fing I think.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I do remember last time we had you on, which
I think was like two years ago by now. But yeah,
I know, and uh, I think we were talking about
how you literally are hands on and do absolutely everything
you're even your own hair. So that doesn't actually surprise
me that you're you just went in and took over.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I mean it's not like I'm not like in a
rude way. It's just like, for example, like I if
I record something like I'm not sure how I want to,
like you know, if I want like to add vibrato
here and have like some sort of like extra thing,
Like I'm very specific at how I record each note,
So I'll record the same verse like five times, and
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then I'll go back and I'm like, oh, I like
wanted to hear not there. And then I go back
and then I will double it. And it's just a
lot of like me thinking and instead of like wasting
somebody else's time, being like a good so you know,
I just do it myself.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
No, No, that makes complete sense, especially because you can
and you know how to do those things. So now
just for a second here, I want to talk about
this past was this past year that you went on
your first tour, I think you said it was ye
so how did that come bout? Did you put that
all together yourself too or no?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So my manager I was in contact with a booking
agent and he was looking for another female front of
band to add on like a little tour. So I
was offered the opportunity through that and he booked everything
and was in control of that. James from buying Anxiety Entertainment,
so I didn't have to do that, which was nice.
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But at the end of the day, like I was
still like my tour manager and like everything else. So
it's like you then all the other shit fall on me.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I was going to say, I was almost shocked there
when you said that it wasn't you.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I was like, well, come on, don't worry. Did every
other thing? Yeah? No, it was cool. It was exciting,
you know. I I went into it being like, this
is not going to be like the glamorous like tour
you see with like you know, the big bands and whatever.
But I had fun. I met a lot of really
cool people. You know. The bands that we played shows
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with were in these really cool, like local bands. It
was nice to see the local scenes outside of you know,
New York, New Jersey because it's very it's a small group,
and I kind of like have a pretty good idea
of what a lot of them are. So it's nice
to see people from like a totally different like life.
And it was really cool.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Oh that's awesome. Now, when you were out there, did
you have a favorite city, favorite venue, favorite show of
any kind?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I like Skeletones that was in Grand Rapids, and guy
told me that Amy Lee and Evanescence performed there years
and obviously years and years ago, so I was like,
that's pretty cool. So I was like, my favorite venue.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
That's awesome. How many cities was it total?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I think it was eight eight Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I mean that's that's a pretty good run for your
first time on, you know, a tour like that. So
did this now you you kind of told this how
it happened, But did it like fall into your lab
or No.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I was looking for something and we were, me and
my manager really talking about, you know, potentially you know,
starting to now tour because I was like the next step.
But you know, obviously touring is very expensive, and you know,
I can I couldn't go too far for too long,
plus like work and whatever. But it was definitely a
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good discussion. I was very interested in, like, you know,
trying it and again, like me and my bandmates, we've
played you know, three shows in a row here and there,
but like this was like the first time we've been
together for I think we were we traveled. I think
it was a total of eleven ten maybe it's ten
days that you know, we were all together and we
got along great. I don't wanted to kill each other,
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so that was great. That's It's like they're the most
people to like do anything with. So it was really
it was a cool experience and I'm I got the bug.
I really want to do it again. So hopefully next
year I'll do something.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Okay, So that was my follow up question was do
we think that we're going to see this from you
again soon?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I hope, so yeah, definitely. And then I would like
to go down the East Coast because I have people
yelling at me that I haven't been there yet.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
So with this new song that you've got coming out
and hopefully you know, touring in twenty five, how many
releases are are we looking at for you right now?
Do you even know how many total you have out?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
So I have a bunch of songs that were out
and then Tunecore decided to accuse me of falsifying my
streams and they deleted ten of my original songs.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Oh my god, so so wait wait wait, wait, so
what are we doing about that?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
First of all, nothing, I really can't do anything about it.
I can fight it, but I think because some of
those were released in like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, which
wasn't that long ago, but my sound has definitely evolved
since then, so as I play a lot of them
live and I have them available like my Patreon, I
have a physical EPCD available, but I kind of like
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that they're not on my Spotify anymore, and now it's
kind of like a niche thing because also, like some
of the songs, like Serenity, which is one that I
absolutely love, I was very pissed that that one was gone,
but I think, you know, I put it on Patreon
and a lot of people have downloaded it and then
just downloaded before it was gone, So I think it's
kind of it'd be kind of cool to play that
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live and see how many people actually know it, and
then it's like a little a cult secret. I guess.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I don't know. Have you considered re releasing any of
them through a different streaming service I did.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I think maybe one day in the far future, i'll
do like a just like a I don't know, like
the archives or something or like make a little epy
about that.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
But yeah, yeah, that's awesome. So last time you were
here again, I think it was about two years ago,
we weren't doing this this next segment that we now do.
So this is going to be your first time. We
have a lightning round now where we just let the
listeners get to know our guests. So these are going
to be a bunch of random questions and some of
them have nothing to do with absolutely anything, but we
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don't care.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I Well, I love that. I like random things.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
All right, Well, this the first one's not going to
be too random because I want to know what you'd
be doing right now if it wasn't music.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
If it wasn't music, yes, does dance count.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Of course, of course. I mean when I say music,
I mean saint lead singer, you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So i'd be doing theater theater.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yeah, oh that's awesome, So like dancing.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Or acting, probably dancing musical theater. I mean I grew
up doing that, so it's pretty much right in there,
and then I was like, yeah, fuck this, I'm gonna
be in a metal band and the other direction. But
now I still have that theater side somewhere in there.
I do miss dancing. I was a dancer for like
most of my life.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Wow, what a huge like spectrum you just said, like
I'm a ballet dancer. Oh fuck it, I'm a metal
singer pretty much.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
All right.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
How about do you prefer New York style pizza or Chicago?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Okay, fun fact about that. I did not play in Chicago.
We drove through Chicago, but Jackie really wanted deep dish pizza,
so we literally drove out our way, went to Chicago,
went did Giordano's, which is like one of the big
places in Chicago for deep dish pizza. We got a
giant pizza that lasted us like four days. And yeah,
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so I can say I've had Chicago pizza and New
York and New York is so much better.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I'm just impressed that you just said you had a
pizza that lasted four days.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
It was okay, it was like this job. Okay, So
he got the meat Lover's one or something, and I
got this other little one but his was like this big,
and it was like this thick. There was just so
much meat in it. So it's like you had two
slices and you were set and then it was really good.
I ate was.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
But you're sticking with New York? All right? So how
about do you prefer dinner or dessert dessert?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I won't eat dinner and I'll just eat.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Dessert dessert for dinner. What about so since you prefer dessert,
do you prefer chocolate or vanilla chocolate? Good answer? All right?
So here's a good one for you because I know
you're a horror movie buff like myself. So you're watching
a horror movie. Are you leaning more towards a slasher
or a psychological thriller?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Ooh, I like a slasher.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
I also will second that answer. What's your favorite slasher?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Right now? Does Terrifier account as a slasher because that
that kind of has everything in it all horror genres
are like in that movie? But I would say that I.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Think that you're right, but I do consider that a slasher. Yeah,
So here's a weird one for you. You're going through
the Bermuda Triangle. Are you taking a boat or a
plane and why.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I'm taking a boat because it's more fun. And I've
actually been on a cruise and I went through the
Bermuda Triangle on a boat.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And you're here to tell us about it. Yeah, So
were you like, were you bummed? Were you like, oh,
nothing happened kind of?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I was like, well, I was anticho.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I love that you're the first person that actually said, oh,
I actually have done that.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
They have one of their beaches there by the way.
I've wont on one cruise of my life and it
happened to be to Bermuda and they have an entire
beach that has pink sand and like the water is
so clear and beautiful. I don't know, beach was cold, but.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
What pink's sand beach.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
There's a picture of me with combat boots on that beach.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I love that you got it. You should send that
in to me and I'll post it with this interview
for sure. So back to the horror movie thing. If
you could be in any horror movie and take, you know,
a starring role in that movie, what movie would it
be like.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
A new version of the movie.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
No, No, the version that already exists. If you can,
if you could go back and be in it, any movie,
anytime period, any role. What are you picking?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Probably Scream?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
What role would you.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Play, Sydney?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
You want to be the final girl?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I was like a bucket, I'll be the final girl.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
And why do you pick Scream?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Because I think it has it has like you know,
the violence in it, but also as a psychological aspect
to it that I like, even though I know I
said Slasher, but I'm that kind of has both.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
I feel like it does. It kind of reinvented the
horror genre itself. I gave it like New Life.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
So aside from horror movies, do you have a favorite
movie in general or are you just strictly the horror
movie person?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
No? My one of my favorite movies is Clue. Oh
I love that movie. My cousin Vinnie and the mpirs
New Groove.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Okay, I did not see that last one coming.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It's so good. I quote it every day.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You know, it's great because it is so geared towards adults,
and David Spade is is just amazing, Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
My god, it is. And Kronk He's just so fucking dumb.
It's great.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
And not to mention my cousin Vinnie is so underrated
these days, and I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I don't know why either. I can That is another
movie that I quote on a daily basis somehow, but
like whenever, like if I say something stupid and my
dad will be like, they didn't teach that in law school?
That movie all the time.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, I feel like that's one of those movies that
was so great and then suddenly just started flying under
the radar and now like not enough people know it,
but it's it still holds up like one percent.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh yeah, did you ever see Clue, the one from
nineteen to seventy?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Oh god, yeah, I love I love that.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Saujha a great movie. A lot of people don't realize
that either, Like they don't I say Clue and they're like,
what I've made so many of my friends watch this
damn movie because I'm like, it's so funny, and when
I quote it, you need to understand where it's coming from.
But yeah, so those three movies are pretty much My
entire dialogue is just from those movies.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Got it? So while talking to you, just be on
the lookout for those Yeah, I might so staying on
just television in general, do you have a favorite TV show, not.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Really do, like I guess kind of. So I've been
there's a show called What I Lie to You, And
it's a British TV show. It's a there's a panel
of judges. There's like two teams through, one side through
and the other and they read cards and they have
to read it as a fact and it's either a
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lie or it's the truth, and everyone has asked questions
and just bunch of comedians basically, so it's absolutely hilarious.
Season seventeen now, So I've been watching that a lot,
and I mean back on like horror. I still love,
you know, like Haunting a hill House, blind manner of
Midnight Mass, like those kind of movies shows. But yeah,
so Midnight Mass, Haunting a Fillhouse, haunting a blind matter,
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pretty much anything that he's done. I did like the
Fall of the House of Usher. That was pretty good too.
I also obviously love Edgar Allan Poe because I'm basic,
so I liked the inspiration for that. Trying to do
any other shows that I watch, I'll like binge things
on Netflix and whatnot, and then just kind of a
da on that she's usually what happens, Well.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Yeah, let's take it back farther and say, what was
your favorite cartoon?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Oh? Man, uh, fairly odd Parents.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
By the way, that's on Netflix again, and I just
started rewatching it.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
How many episodes are there of that show? It's got
to be a lot, right, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
They got like it's gone so far that they have
like a talking dog now and there's a baby, and
everything got fucking weird and I stopped. I don't know,
I probably stopped watching show honestly after like season seven
or eight. But yeah, I think so season four is
available on Netflix starting.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Wow, there's that many seven or eight. Wow. Yeah, I
didn't know that show lasted that long.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I think it's still going on, to be honest.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
All right, So I want to get back to your writing,
because obviously we're talking about your new single. Now, do
you have things lined up beyond this that you're already
working on and getting ready for after this new single
or are you taking it one step at a time
right now?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Nope, we have an ep that's going to come out
probably end if maybe early March. The song's already done,
so I mean some of them are going to be
the ones that are already out and it's just going
to be collective because you know, I feel like that's
a thing. He released three singles and then the EP,
so I'm doing the same thing and that's going to
be you know, physical, and then probably announcing some shows
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to like run that a little bit. I don't think
it's going to be a tour, but just a couple
of local ish shows.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Okay. Now this is kind of like a dream sequence
question here, but if there was anybody out there that
you could sit down and write a song with, who
would you choose?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Adam Gantier, Three Days Grace and San Antonia. Oh, actually
Three Days Grace again. Yeah, I've you know, his writing
style has been a huge influence on me since you know,
I hate everything about you like that song. I saw
it on I'm TV and I was like, oh my god,
this is really cool. And I don't know, it's just
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kind of the place some where he writes like mentally
as well is kind of what I do. And I
don't know, I just think it really cool. Plus I
think we sound cool together.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I want to point out too, because so you're talking
about Three Days Grace, you mentioned evan Escence earlier, so
that scene, that new metal scene is that would you say,
is like your biggest influence usually.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, definitely that in like Breaking Benjamin Helstorm. And then
it also it's like depending on like what I'm listening
to at the moment. Like I said, I was listening
to a lot of Orbit Culture at the beginning of this,
and I was kind of showing them like I was
also listening to a lot of Septic Flush, but that's
a little too metal for me personally as an artist,
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Like I don't scream and I don't growl. But yeah,
I mean each song I think is kind of from
a different place.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Do you think that there's anything that you listen to
that would maybe shock your fans that they would be like,
oh wow, I would have never thought that she listens
to whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Band. Well, I listened to like a lot of not
a lot, but I've been listening to like DM like
dance music recently every now and then I need a
palate cleanser. And I still listened to like classical music
as well.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Okay, So I was actually just going to ask you that.
So that's again you got to my question before me.
But I know, so with being you know, a dancer,
for so long in ballet and that that that's a
part of you. So classical music has has got to
like hit you a certain type of way.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh yeah, whenever I hear it, I automatically choreographing something
in my head. But you know, whether it's like, you know,
George Handel or Tamasa Elbanani or most aar at beijuven
La Classics and whatever. I listened to a lot of that.
It was actually funny. So I was driving with my
friend to the city and the song Tattoo by Lauren
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came on, which is like it's popular on like TikTok
now it's not like an EDM pop song. And then
right after that with Septic Flush Pyramid God, and then
right after that was like an adagio from Elbanani and
it was just like all over the place. And she
looked at me and I was like, this is my brain.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Have you ever considered, you said, sometimes you are you know,
you miss dancing or whatever? Do you ever consider going.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Back to it?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Or so I actually have. I started taking class at
Broadbay Dance Center again. I went and took class with
my teacher, though I've trained with for like maybe twelve years. No,
that's not near about twelve years. So I went and
took that class again, which is nice, and then I
honestly do a lot of virtual stuff because this is
technically this is my dance studio, even though now it's
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a recording studio. So it's cut in half, so like
this half is the recording and that half is the dance,
so that that's actually a mirror right there. It's not
extra lights. I surprised it's all an illusion. So I
would like to go back today class again, but my
schedule has been a little chaotic, so I've been taking
class in my basement at like midnight.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Oh wow, okay, so you don't sleep.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
No, I did that last night and I woke up
this morning was a what was my neck heard?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Well, you talked about how your schedule is, you know,
pretty hectic in that. So let's talk about how you
do have a show coming up soon? Ashually you want
to plug that show?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Sure, it's on December sixth. It's going to be in Broadheadsville, Pennsylvania.
I'm opening it for Para Langa and Scottie Austin who
was in Saving Abel. So that should be cool.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Paralandra, that is Cassandra right, yes, yes, so her new
album just came out, Cassandra's Crossing, and it was phenomenal.
So that's really cool that you're playing that show with
them now. Is that your last show for this year?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Okay, very cool. So again back to the single, you
said it will eventually be a part of your EP,
which is coming out in early twenty five. What's the
title of the EP?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I had? It was called Through the Veil, and then
I was debating on changing it actually recently, so I
had like the cover art for it and everything and
had this really cool concept, but I might tweak it
a little bit. But I do like the name Through
the Veil because it's kind of like breaking through the
old version of me. I also wanted to call it
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like Alex two point zero because I feel like this
is such a more evolved version than the first EP
that I did back in twenty nineteen, But no, I
do like Through the Veil, so I'll probably stick with that.
But I do change my mind very often, so until
it's like on paper or like in the system ready
to go, it's my change. But I think I'll stick.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
With it, Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
And how many songs are we looking at total ah
five five songs. Cool, so, uh you said that will
probably be I got to check my notes here February
early March. Yes, all right, awesome, So you're going to
kick off next year with a bang and hopefully we'll
catch you out on tour and I'll come out and
see like I was going to this time and then
I ended up with my own booking.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So it's really fun.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
So one last thing before I get you out of
here is I just want you to again, for new
listeners who didn't hear or the last episode that we
did with you, plug everything you got where they can
get your music, your social media, how they can keep
in touch with you, know what you have going on
when the EP actually drops and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, so everything I'll be available on my website, which
is at Official Alexa l y xx dot com. All
of my socials are Official Alex again, same as the website.
It's Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, threads, which I think is connected now.
Even my YouTube is actually just at Alex because somehow
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I got that before somebody else took it, which is
why I'm Official Alex for everybody else. So I've had
my YouTube forever. I've been like slacking on that. But anyways,
so yes, you can keep up to date with me.
I'm most active on Instagram because it's easier for me,
but I do post everything. It's gonna be on my website.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Okay, very cool, And again, thank you so much for
being here. And this was a lot of fun. And
I cannot believe how much time went by in between interviews.
When I checked this morning, I was mind blown because
I don't feel like it was that long ago.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I don't feel like it was not long ago. Was
it really two years ago?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Yeah, I think it's pretty close. Yeah, yeah, weird.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I'm flashed by yeah, pretty much. I showed you. I
don't know if you could see it, but I showed
my nails that I broke them all.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Actually no, I did not see that, but I heard
it as I was like fixing everything, and I was like, oh.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Look back and be like, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
It'll be great. I have a feeling it's going to
be a bigger hit than the last one. All right, Well,
thank you again and we will catch you next time.
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that we did with Alex. Please go back and check
that out. It's about two years ago and you know,
you could see the changes, the difference in the progress
that she's made and I urge you to do so.
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is Alex and we are going to get into her
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So let's get this interview.
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Speaker 1 (01:46):
CD buy.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Alex, welcome back to the All bet Through Podcast. How
you doing tonight?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Hy I'm doing great. How about yourself?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I am ready to do this interview. That's that's how
I am, Helia. I want to start with the big
news is your new single, and I want you to
just take us away, tell us about it, the name
of it, where the inspiration came from. Let's hear it
all cool?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
All right? So the new song is called end of Me,
and this was the last song I wrote for the EP.
And I normally write everything first, So I normally do
like a full production at my own studio which I'm in,
and then I go to the studio and then we
just add the actual instruments and whatnot, because I use
like MIDI for everything. But for this one, I really
wanted it to be a heavy, very guitar driven, very
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like powerful. So I sat down with my drummer Rossell
Blis guitar Sackie and Brandon as well plays guitar, and
I told him I was very influenced by like orbit
culture at the time, and I still am. But they
have a song, actually a couple of songs anyways, it's
very powerful and very just like driving, like aggressive songs.
(03:04):
So we just kind of like sat down and kind
of just started building and he was coming up with
some riffs and I started humming along and it just
kind of organically came together. That was like the first
song we really sat together and wrote from scratch without
any like preconceived idea. So that was really cool and
it's very special to me. And the lyrics are just
about wanting to be with somebody so much and then
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being with them and realizing that this is not what
you thought and just kind of leaving disappointed, but realizing
that like it's not the end of the world and
you'll be okay, but it just sucks. Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
That's pretty deep meaning behind that.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
So now when you guys are writing the song, you
says it's the first time you approach songwriting in this
specific type of way. Do you think that that's what
you're going to do moving forward because you enjoyed it
so much?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Or yeah, definitely. I Mean sometimes I come up with
like an idea, and what normally happens is I come
up with like a core idea and I'll record that
and then I just end up, like the entire song
usually just comes out, so it's not normally a plan.
But yeah, definitely have more songs like that because it
was very organic and we've been working together, like especially
me and Zach have been working together for I think
(04:15):
seven years now, so we have a very good understanding
of like how we vibe, and with Brandon it's been
since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So oh wow. Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So you said you went into it with no preconceived
notions or anything about you know, what was going on.
So does that mean even lyrically, you had no idea
what the direction that the song was going to go
in at all.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah. None. When I heard the chorus, I started humming
along and then what I normally do is I just
start talking and improvising and just seeing what comes out.
And the lyrics started to come together, and I was like, oh okay,
and then I solidified like a concept that I wanted
for the song, and then I just kind of like
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build around that.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
So you said it it's like a deep meaning song
to you, So do you do you feel like when
you're recording and you're singing these songs that have the
deeper meanings, does that help you really like belt these
out to Like I don't know if you're like me
or not, but being in a studios is hard for
me because I like to have an audience, and when
I don't have an audience, I don't feel like I'm
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singing my best, so I have to like envision that
I'm performing. So for a song that has a lot
of deep meaning, is it easier for you to get
into that headspace of just belting it out?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I guess I don't know. I feel very comfortable in
the studio. I think, first of all, I'm usually by myself,
like especially when I recorded these songs for the actual
EP for the single, I recorded at the studio, but
I tracked myself, and Zach usually is the one who's
like tracking everything, but I was like, you know what,
for the last couple of songs, it was like, let
me just do it because I am very controlling when
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it comes to like how I sound, and it's just
it's so much easier for me to do it because
I do it, you know, at home all the time.
So I like kicked them out for like four hours
and I just tracked everything myself. So it was I
like it because I feel like I'm like this my
own little like cave, So it was a lot more
fing I think.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I do remember last time we had you on, which
I think was like two years ago by now. But yeah,
I know, and uh, I think we were talking about
how you literally are hands on and do absolutely everything
you're even your own hair. So that doesn't actually surprise
me that you're you just went in and took over.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I mean it's not like I'm not like in a
rude way. It's just like, for example, like I if
I record something like I'm not sure how I want to,
like you know, if I want like to add vibrato
here and have like some sort of like extra thing,
Like I'm very specific at how I record each note,
So I'll record the same verse like five times, and
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then I'll go back and I'm like, oh, I like
wanted to hear not there. And then I go back
and then I will double it. And it's just a
lot of like me thinking and instead of like wasting
somebody else's time, being like a good so you know,
I just do it myself.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
No, No, that makes complete sense, especially because you can
and you know how to do those things. So now
just for a second here, I want to talk about
this past was this past year that you went on
your first tour, I think you said it was ye
so how did that come bout? Did you put that
all together yourself too or no?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So my manager I was in contact with a booking
agent and he was looking for another female front of
band to add on like a little tour. So I
was offered the opportunity through that and he booked everything
and was in control of that. James from buying Anxiety Entertainment,
so I didn't have to do that, which was nice.
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But at the end of the day, like I was
still like my tour manager and like everything else. So
it's like you then all the other shit fall on me.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I was going to say, I was almost shocked there
when you said that it wasn't you.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I was like, well, come on, don't worry. Did every
other thing? Yeah? No, it was cool. It was exciting,
you know. I I went into it being like, this
is not going to be like the glamorous like tour
you see with like you know, the big bands and whatever.
But I had fun. I met a lot of really
cool people. You know. The bands that we played shows
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with were in these really cool, like local bands. It
was nice to see the local scenes outside of you know,
New York, New Jersey because it's very it's a small group,
and I kind of like have a pretty good idea
of what a lot of them are. So it's nice
to see people from like a totally different like life.
And it was really cool.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Oh that's awesome. Now, when you were out there, did
you have a favorite city, favorite venue, favorite show of
any kind?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I like Skeletones that was in Grand Rapids, and guy
told me that Amy Lee and Evanescence performed there years
and obviously years and years ago, so I was like,
that's pretty cool. So I was like, my favorite venue.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
That's awesome. How many cities was it total?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I think it was eight eight Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I mean that's that's a pretty good run for your
first time on, you know, a tour like that. So
did this now you you kind of told this how
it happened, But did it like fall into your lab
or No.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I was looking for something and we were, me and
my manager really talking about, you know, potentially you know,
starting to now tour because I was like the next step.
But you know, obviously touring is very expensive, and you know,
I can I couldn't go too far for too long,
plus like work and whatever. But it was definitely a
(09:31):
good discussion. I was very interested in, like, you know,
trying it and again, like me and my bandmates, we've
played you know, three shows in a row here and there,
but like this was like the first time we've been
together for I think we were we traveled. I think
it was a total of eleven ten maybe it's ten
days that you know, we were all together and we
got along great. I don't wanted to kill each other,
(09:51):
so that was great. That's It's like they're the most
people to like do anything with. So it was really
it was a cool experience and I'm I got the bug.
I really want to do it again. So hopefully next
year I'll do something.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Okay, So that was my follow up question was do
we think that we're going to see this from you
again soon?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I hope, so yeah, definitely. And then I would like
to go down the East Coast because I have people
yelling at me that I haven't been there yet.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
So with this new song that you've got coming out
and hopefully you know, touring in twenty five, how many
releases are are we looking at for you right now?
Do you even know how many total you have out?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
So I have a bunch of songs that were out
and then Tunecore decided to accuse me of falsifying my
streams and they deleted ten of my original songs.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Oh my god, so so wait wait wait, wait, so
what are we doing about that?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
First of all, nothing, I really can't do anything about it.
I can fight it, but I think because some of
those were released in like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, which
wasn't that long ago, but my sound has definitely evolved
since then, so as I play a lot of them
live and I have them available like my Patreon, I
have a physical EPCD available, but I kind of like
(11:11):
that they're not on my Spotify anymore, and now it's
kind of like a niche thing because also, like some
of the songs, like Serenity, which is one that I
absolutely love, I was very pissed that that one was gone,
but I think, you know, I put it on Patreon
and a lot of people have downloaded it and then
just downloaded before it was gone, So I think it's
kind of it'd be kind of cool to play that
(11:32):
live and see how many people actually know it, and
then it's like a little a cult secret. I guess.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I don't know. Have you considered re releasing any of
them through a different streaming service I did.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I think maybe one day in the far future, i'll
do like a just like a I don't know, like
the archives or something or like make a little epy
about that.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
But yeah, yeah, that's awesome. So last time you were
here again, I think it was about two years ago,
we weren't doing this this next segment that we now do.
So this is going to be your first time. We
have a lightning round now where we just let the
listeners get to know our guests. So these are going
to be a bunch of random questions and some of
them have nothing to do with absolutely anything, but we
(12:17):
don't care.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I Well, I love that. I like random things.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
All right, Well, this the first one's not going to
be too random because I want to know what you'd
be doing right now if it wasn't music.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
If it wasn't music, yes, does dance count.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Of course, of course. I mean when I say music,
I mean saint lead singer, you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So i'd be doing theater theater.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Yeah, oh that's awesome, So like dancing.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Or acting, probably dancing musical theater. I mean I grew
up doing that, so it's pretty much right in there,
and then I was like, yeah, fuck this, I'm gonna
be in a metal band and the other direction. But
now I still have that theater side somewhere in there.
I do miss dancing. I was a dancer for like
most of my life.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Wow, what a huge like spectrum you just said, like
I'm a ballet dancer. Oh fuck it, I'm a metal
singer pretty much.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
All right.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
How about do you prefer New York style pizza or Chicago?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Okay, fun fact about that. I did not play in Chicago.
We drove through Chicago, but Jackie really wanted deep dish pizza,
so we literally drove out our way, went to Chicago,
went did Giordano's, which is like one of the big
places in Chicago for deep dish pizza. We got a
giant pizza that lasted us like four days. And yeah,
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so I can say I've had Chicago pizza and New
York and New York is so much better.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I'm just impressed that you just said you had a
pizza that lasted four days.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
It was okay, it was like this job. Okay, So
he got the meat Lover's one or something, and I
got this other little one but his was like this big,
and it was like this thick. There was just so
much meat in it. So it's like you had two
slices and you were set and then it was really good.
I ate was.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
But you're sticking with New York? All right? So how
about do you prefer dinner or dessert dessert?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I won't eat dinner and I'll just eat.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Dessert dessert for dinner. What about so since you prefer dessert,
do you prefer chocolate or vanilla chocolate? Good answer? All right?
So here's a good one for you because I know
you're a horror movie buff like myself. So you're watching
a horror movie. Are you leaning more towards a slasher
or a psychological thriller?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Ooh, I like a slasher.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
I also will second that answer. What's your favorite slasher?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Right now? Does Terrifier account as a slasher because that
that kind of has everything in it all horror genres
are like in that movie? But I would say that I.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Think that you're right, but I do consider that a slasher. Yeah,
So here's a weird one for you. You're going through
the Bermuda Triangle. Are you taking a boat or a
plane and why.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I'm taking a boat because it's more fun. And I've
actually been on a cruise and I went through the
Bermuda Triangle on a boat.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And you're here to tell us about it. Yeah, So
were you like, were you bummed? Were you like, oh,
nothing happened kind of?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I was like, well, I was anticho.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I love that you're the first person that actually said, oh,
I actually have done that.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
They have one of their beaches there by the way.
I've wont on one cruise of my life and it
happened to be to Bermuda and they have an entire
beach that has pink sand and like the water is
so clear and beautiful. I don't know, beach was cold, but.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
What pink's sand beach.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
There's a picture of me with combat boots on that beach.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I love that you got it. You should send that
in to me and I'll post it with this interview
for sure. So back to the horror movie thing. If
you could be in any horror movie and take, you know,
a starring role in that movie, what movie would it
be like.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
A new version of the movie.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
No, No, the version that already exists. If you can,
if you could go back and be in it, any movie,
anytime period, any role. What are you picking?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Probably Scream?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
What role would you.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Play, Sydney?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
You want to be the final girl?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I was like a bucket, I'll be the final girl.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
And why do you pick Scream?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Because I think it has it has like you know,
the violence in it, but also as a psychological aspect
to it that I like, even though I know I
said Slasher, but I'm that kind of has both.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
I feel like it does. It kind of reinvented the
horror genre itself. I gave it like New Life.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
So aside from horror movies, do you have a favorite
movie in general or are you just strictly the horror
movie person?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
No? My one of my favorite movies is Clue. Oh
I love that movie. My cousin Vinnie and the mpirs
New Groove.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Okay, I did not see that last one coming.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It's so good. I quote it every day.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You know, it's great because it is so geared towards adults,
and David Spade is is just amazing, Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
My god, it is. And Kronk He's just so fucking dumb.
It's great.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
And not to mention my cousin Vinnie is so underrated
these days, and I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I don't know why either. I can That is another
movie that I quote on a daily basis somehow, but
like whenever, like if I say something stupid and my
dad will be like, they didn't teach that in law school?
That movie all the time.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, I feel like that's one of those movies that
was so great and then suddenly just started flying under
the radar and now like not enough people know it,
but it's it still holds up like one percent.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh yeah, did you ever see Clue, the one from
nineteen to seventy?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Oh god, yeah, I love I love that.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Saujha a great movie. A lot of people don't realize
that either, Like they don't I say Clue and they're like,
what I've made so many of my friends watch this
damn movie because I'm like, it's so funny, and when
I quote it, you need to understand where it's coming from.
But yeah, so those three movies are pretty much My
entire dialogue is just from those movies.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Got it? So while talking to you, just be on
the lookout for those Yeah, I might so staying on
just television in general, do you have a favorite TV show, not.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Really do, like I guess kind of. So I've been
there's a show called What I Lie to You, And
it's a British TV show. It's a there's a panel
of judges. There's like two teams through, one side through
and the other and they read cards and they have
to read it as a fact and it's either a
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lie or it's the truth, and everyone has asked questions
and just bunch of comedians basically, so it's absolutely hilarious.
Season seventeen now, So I've been watching that a lot,
and I mean back on like horror. I still love,
you know, like Haunting a hill House, blind manner of
Midnight Mass, like those kind of movies shows. But yeah,
so Midnight Mass, Haunting a Fillhouse, haunting a blind matter,
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pretty much anything that he's done. I did like the
Fall of the House of Usher. That was pretty good too.
I also obviously love Edgar Allan Poe because I'm basic,
so I liked the inspiration for that. Trying to do
any other shows that I watch, I'll like binge things
on Netflix and whatnot, and then just kind of a
da on that she's usually what happens, Well.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Yeah, let's take it back farther and say, what was
your favorite cartoon?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Oh? Man, uh, fairly odd Parents.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
By the way, that's on Netflix again, and I just
started rewatching it.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
How many episodes are there of that show? It's got
to be a lot, right, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
They got like it's gone so far that they have
like a talking dog now and there's a baby, and
everything got fucking weird and I stopped. I don't know,
I probably stopped watching show honestly after like season seven
or eight. But yeah, I think so season four is
available on Netflix starting.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Wow, there's that many seven or eight. Wow. Yeah, I
didn't know that show lasted that long.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I think it's still going on, to be honest.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
All right, So I want to get back to your writing,
because obviously we're talking about your new single. Now, do
you have things lined up beyond this that you're already
working on and getting ready for after this new single
or are you taking it one step at a time
right now?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Nope, we have an ep that's going to come out
probably end if maybe early March. The song's already done,
so I mean some of them are going to be
the ones that are already out and it's just going
to be collective because you know, I feel like that's
a thing. He released three singles and then the EP,
so I'm doing the same thing and that's going to
be you know, physical, and then probably announcing some shows
(21:18):
to like run that a little bit. I don't think
it's going to be a tour, but just a couple
of local ish shows.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Okay. Now this is kind of like a dream sequence
question here, but if there was anybody out there that
you could sit down and write a song with, who
would you choose?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Adam Gantier, Three Days Grace and San Antonia. Oh, actually
Three Days Grace again. Yeah, I've you know, his writing
style has been a huge influence on me since you know,
I hate everything about you like that song. I saw
it on I'm TV and I was like, oh my god,
this is really cool. And I don't know, it's just
(21:56):
kind of the place some where he writes like mentally
as well is kind of what I do. And I
don't know, I just think it really cool. Plus I
think we sound cool together.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I want to point out too, because so you're talking
about Three Days Grace, you mentioned evan Escence earlier, so
that scene, that new metal scene is that would you say,
is like your biggest influence usually.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, definitely that in like Breaking Benjamin Helstorm. And then
it also it's like depending on like what I'm listening
to at the moment. Like I said, I was listening
to a lot of Orbit Culture at the beginning of this,
and I was kind of showing them like I was
also listening to a lot of Septic Flush, but that's
a little too metal for me personally as an artist,
(22:39):
Like I don't scream and I don't growl. But yeah,
I mean each song I think is kind of from
a different place.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Do you think that there's anything that you listen to
that would maybe shock your fans that they would be like,
oh wow, I would have never thought that she listens
to whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Band. Well, I listened to like a lot of not
a lot, but I've been listening to like DM like
dance music recently every now and then I need a
palate cleanser. And I still listened to like classical music
as well.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Okay, So I was actually just going to ask you that.
So that's again you got to my question before me.
But I know, so with being you know, a dancer,
for so long in ballet and that that that's a
part of you. So classical music has has got to
like hit you a certain type of way.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh yeah, whenever I hear it, I automatically choreographing something
in my head. But you know, whether it's like, you know,
George Handel or Tamasa Elbanani or most aar at beijuven
La Classics and whatever. I listened to a lot of that.
It was actually funny. So I was driving with my
friend to the city and the song Tattoo by Lauren
(23:46):
came on, which is like it's popular on like TikTok
now it's not like an EDM pop song. And then
right after that with Septic Flush Pyramid God, and then
right after that was like an adagio from Elbanani and
it was just like all over the place. And she
looked at me and I was like, this is my brain.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Have you ever considered, you said, sometimes you are you know,
you miss dancing or whatever? Do you ever consider going.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Back to it?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Or so I actually have. I started taking class at
Broadbay Dance Center again. I went and took class with
my teacher, though I've trained with for like maybe twelve years. No,
that's not near about twelve years. So I went and
took that class again, which is nice, and then I
honestly do a lot of virtual stuff because this is
technically this is my dance studio, even though now it's
(24:34):
a recording studio. So it's cut in half, so like
this half is the recording and that half is the dance,
so that that's actually a mirror right there. It's not
extra lights. I surprised it's all an illusion. So I
would like to go back today class again, but my
schedule has been a little chaotic, so I've been taking
class in my basement at like midnight.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Oh wow, okay, so you don't sleep.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
No, I did that last night and I woke up
this morning was a what was my neck heard?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Well, you talked about how your schedule is, you know,
pretty hectic in that. So let's talk about how you
do have a show coming up soon? Ashually you want
to plug that show?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Sure, it's on December sixth. It's going to be in Broadheadsville, Pennsylvania.
I'm opening it for Para Langa and Scottie Austin who
was in Saving Abel. So that should be cool.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Paralandra, that is Cassandra right, yes, yes, so her new
album just came out, Cassandra's Crossing, and it was phenomenal.
So that's really cool that you're playing that show with
them now. Is that your last show for this year?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Okay, very cool. So again back to the single, you
said it will eventually be a part of your EP,
which is coming out in early twenty five. What's the
title of the EP?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I had? It was called Through the Veil, and then
I was debating on changing it actually recently, so I
had like the cover art for it and everything and
had this really cool concept, but I might tweak it
a little bit. But I do like the name Through
the Veil because it's kind of like breaking through the
old version of me. I also wanted to call it
(26:08):
like Alex two point zero because I feel like this
is such a more evolved version than the first EP
that I did back in twenty nineteen, But no, I
do like Through the Veil, so I'll probably stick with that.
But I do change my mind very often, so until
it's like on paper or like in the system ready
to go, it's my change. But I think I'll stick.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
With it, Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
And how many songs are we looking at total ah
five five songs. Cool, so, uh you said that will
probably be I got to check my notes here February
early March. Yes, all right, awesome, So you're going to
kick off next year with a bang and hopefully we'll
catch you out on tour and I'll come out and
see like I was going to this time and then
I ended up with my own booking.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So it's really fun.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
So one last thing before I get you out of
here is I just want you to again, for new
listeners who didn't hear or the last episode that we
did with you, plug everything you got where they can
get your music, your social media, how they can keep
in touch with you, know what you have going on
when the EP actually drops and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, so everything I'll be available on my website, which
is at Official Alexa l y xx dot com. All
of my socials are Official Alex again, same as the website.
It's Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, threads, which I think is connected now.
Even my YouTube is actually just at Alex because somehow
(27:30):
I got that before somebody else took it, which is
why I'm Official Alex for everybody else. So I've had
my YouTube forever. I've been like slacking on that. But anyways,
so yes, you can keep up to date with me.
I'm most active on Instagram because it's easier for me,
but I do post everything. It's gonna be on my website.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Okay, very cool, And again, thank you so much for
being here. And this was a lot of fun. And
I cannot believe how much time went by in between interviews.
When I checked this morning, I was mind blown because
I don't feel like it was that long ago.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I don't feel like it was not long ago. Was
it really two years ago?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Yeah, I think it's pretty close. Yeah, yeah, weird.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I'm flashed by yeah, pretty much. I showed you. I
don't know if you could see it, but I showed
my nails that I broke them all.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Actually no, I did not see that, but I heard
it as I was like fixing everything, and I was like, oh.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Look back and be like, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
It'll be great. I have a feeling it's going to
be a bigger hit than the last one. All right, Well,
thank you again and we will catch you next time.
(29:13):
All right, rockers. Once again, that was Alex. Give her
a follow If you did not hear the first interview
that we did with Alex. Please go back and check
that out. It's about two years ago and you know,
you could see the changes, the difference in the progress
that she's made and I urge you to do so.
And if you are new here, I will say once
again please subscribe on your favorite streaming platform. See you
guys next time on the All Bets ROV podcast.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
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