January 13, 2025 • 31 mins
🎶 Join us as we chat with Nat Summer, a rockabilly artist making waves with her hit single “Bye Bye Bye”! From her classical training in Eastern Europe to a modeling career that landed her on Devo’s album cover, Nat’s journey back to music is inspiring. Discover how a gifted guitar reignited her passion and why her latest track is stuck in everyone’s head. Get ready for a deep dive into her creative process and comeback story! 🔗✨ #VigilantesRadio
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You know you are more than the.
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Mood you happen to be in this present moment, you
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Mood in any other mood. You are more than the
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Of you, but rather on how you choose to interpret
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Think and feel, and hire and life affirm in ways,
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would have felt tired and dejected, and see for yourself
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Though there are plenty perfect good reasons to.
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Feel lousy, there are many more reasons to feel great.
And go ahead, sit straight up, take a deep breath,
and put a smile on your face, and make yourself
vastly more effective.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
My name is Coach Denny. Change is possible. Are you ready?
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Are huge ready?
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Are you ready? Are you ready?
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Well?
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Let's go go, Let's go, Let's go.
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Our interviews are designed to go behind the scenes into
the minds of these incredible human beings, you know, the
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That we called the ego.
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So with that said, ladies and gentlemen, tonight we bring
you the incredible story of Matt Summer and artists whose
life is a testament to the power of resilience and creativity.
From her classical piano beginnings in Eastern Europe to her
rockability comeback with the hit song Bye Bye Bye, which
(03:49):
is dropping soon. Matt's journey spans not only continents, genres,
but also industries, and her music speechs of transformation, of
passion and authenticity. So please join me in saying welcome
friend to the One to the Only Net Summer.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Hello, Hello, Hello, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Hello Hello, Wow, what an introduction. I really appreciate the
current words and I would like to share with you
the great news Bye Bye Bye is now out, So
the song is available on all platforms. Yes, I'm really excited.
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Indeed, indeed, how did you celebrate this glorious moment with
this release of a fantastic single and the beginning of
something new.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Well, it came out right around the New Years, So
to me this turned out not only into a celebration
of the song being out, but also of the new
year starting on a very positive, very high note and
hoping to just keep on this list.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Indeed, indeed, so that again, you know we are in
a new year. You know there's a new song out
by Matt Summer. So what's been on your heart and
mind lately?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
I've been fighting a lot of battles in the past
few years, with a lot of moving around and just
trying to reconnect to my art history. And I think
that this past year, the twenty twenty four, was when
I started seeing first results of that work, and I
(05:35):
started writing new songs which I feel like they present
me much more as an artist comparing to the previous material.
So for me, this has been a little of artistic verse,
so to say. And now I'm just enjoying the ride.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Indeed, indeed, and as the one who is the most
closest to the trans information, the new beginnings, what's different
in your music career versus the older material and all
subject matters you used to write about.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
I used to work on poetry that had to be
somehow very dramatic, very tragic. There was a lot of
I mean, as you've mentioned, I come from Eastern Europe,
so Dostoyevsky here we come. And I kind of became
(06:33):
a little bit more light hearted. And that's why I
feel like rockabilly is also a genre which I really
enjoyed working and since it gives me that opportunity to
show the world's a little bit of joy. I've shown
in my past works. I've shown the world a lot
of the pain. But now I feel like I want
to show the joy and that's been the main difference.
(06:56):
And also the generatives. I used to work in more
electronic roc general, and now it's I want more acoustic instruments,
I want live music, I want to be in nature.
I have a more sincere connection to myself. I think
also because in a way, this is showing myself that yes,
it doesn't matter how old I am, doesn't matter how
(07:18):
long I've been doing this. Every day is a chance
to start over, and once you get that winth going,
then this is right now. I just try to not
try to argue. I focus on the growth, yes, and I.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Think that's very important, not only as an artist but
as an individual, to to show people the other.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Side of the pain.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You know, there is growth, There is sun out of
the rain, you know, and all that what prompted you
to begin this journey and showing your listeners that there
is a fun side, there is joy, there is you know,
new beginnings.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
There is a journey to be traveled and experienced.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Exactly, and to me it became more about the journey
than the result. Yes, I want as many people as
possible to hear my songs, to enjoy my song. I
want to write more songs, I want to play, but
it also is taking it one day at a time
(08:24):
and the journey itself, just being able to do this again. I've,
as you've also mentioned in your beautiful introduction, started as
a be honest and then I started writing my songs
and I always played piano writing my songs, and then
I had a band for a few years and the
breakup of that band is very dramatic, and after that
(08:47):
I decided to just step away from music altogether and
try different things and modeling, lacting and all that fun stuff,
which I do love. But then some one gave me
a guitar as a present. I did not I've played
guitar very little, and it was some kind of an
(09:09):
event and I played a little bit, and then you know,
next week or so, this person gave me the guitar
and I didn't know what to do with it, but
I picked it up and it started playing it and
that gave me that opportunity to start a new and
I thought, why did I quit? And then the more
(09:30):
I played, the more I wanted it to play. And
then I started writing songs and Bye Bye Bye was
one of the first songs that I've written on my
new guitar. So this was, I guess meant to be,
you can say. But ironically, now that brought me back
into music altogether. And now I'm back at playing the piano.
(09:50):
And actually I just wrote a new song playing piano
like I used to it twenty years ago. So this
is a yeah, that's quite a fun, right.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Nice nice? So tell us about Eastern Europe. I was
life growing up, Well, I saw.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
My family moved here when I was very young, so
I don't remember much of it, and I really can't
can't say much more.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Okay, okay, so yeah it is yeah, yeah, okay. So
also in your early beginnings you had classical training, Like, wow,
at what age did you begin classical training?
Speaker 7 (10:32):
I was. I was six, But that was a common
thing a lot of people back then. They wanted it.
It's like a part of the culture. They want their
children to say, dunce lessons and music lessons. But I was.
I liked it, and we had the piano and the
house in my mom places as well, and yeah, I was.
(10:52):
I was really enjoying it. But I was really lazy
to work on all that classical material. I can't remember anything,
the guys, I cannot remember any one of those classical
pieces beautiful that I used to play the boss and
hold them the motord, all those things. And then I when
I would be alone, supposedly working on those and my
(11:16):
parents wouldn't be home, I started just improvising. And that's how.
And this in the very same time, I got a
book which was a poetry, beautiful mating poetry, and I
am myself humbled to say that I'm a published sort
and I write a lot of poetry just all the time.
(11:36):
And that poetry with my little improvisations started turning into songs.
And remember this long time. My parents came back and
they thought, I'm sitting there studying some montored very hard.
They came in and I'm just playing something totally different.
I'm singing, and they're like, what is this? And I said, well,
(11:57):
this is I think this is all of this world.
And they became really, really, really supportive. They I was
really excited when I was fifteen, they fully produced my
first album. They were taking all these different competitions and
all these different events where they were wanted me to
play everyone.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
But then.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
We came here, and that's when they stopped being so supportive.
And you know, it's interesting when we moved here to
them me being not from here, that was kind of
impossible to ever make it here, and if you look around,
it's not the truth. But I think that our time
and access people can get to music now and the
(12:39):
streaming services and Spotify and everything. Basically, we have so
many tools now for an independent musician. You don't have
to think of an industry as this. You know, big uh,
something is going to come for you and take you
into the stardom and some big record playable. We're need
to sign you. It used to be only that way,
(13:00):
but now I feel like the seedom also gives a
lot of hope. And so going against my parents, well,
I started doing music here and proud to stay still here,
which is kind of amazing because lisitally, I do not
remember doing an interview about my music, probably no last one.
It's probably two thousand and eight, I want to say.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
So long time, yeah, yeah, okay, so fast forward. Now
we are here and joining this new record, bye bye bye.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I managed to see the trailer of the music video.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
And oh, thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Yeah, okay, okay. I think she's telling the story with
this song as well.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
It's like, I don't know, like she's running away or
maybe she's on the road traveling and just visiting certain spots.
I don't know, but there's just a lot of speculation
to think. The clips like twenty three seconds long. But
I can't wait to see the full video. There's definitely
a story there and I can't wait to see it.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Thank you so much for saying that I appreciated this video.
I had so much fun. I made it this summer
last summer and working together with my a very good
friend of mine who's as a genius filmmaker, and we
just went that stayed for a few days with a
very small crew. But I've also worked in the film
(14:24):
industry for a while, so gird Of and everybody's experienced
was so much that we pulled off a music video
is Shoe that probably should have taken at least I
don't know fifteen twenty people working on it, and we
were just en handsful people. We really knew the direction
and the ideas behind it. And my friend who is
(14:46):
starting a video also my other really good friend, and
he played that cterrific. I don't want to say anymore
because I do plan to release the video a little later.
It's still in post production stages, but I want to
release it and make me be sort of an event
off of it, maybe play and also making this record,
(15:07):
this blot me to so many new people in my life,
like David Pattila, the producer with whom I worked on it.
He contributed tremendously to this record. He really understood and
selled me and just the two of us getting just
locking ourselves up in the studio for like eight ten
hours at a time and just completely diving into it
(15:31):
and finding that sounds because I came with him to
him with the same idea I used.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
To do this.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
I haven't done it for a long time now I
want to do this again. And it was so littly
different than what I used to do. So he's a genius,
an incredible human being. And yeah, we had a lot
of fun, and so we're working on a whole right now.
I don't want to see also sometimes so like if
I say a lot, I'm jinxing it. I don't want
(15:59):
to jinx it. But we are working on more materials.
I wouldn't say more, but there will be. I'm, you know,
keeping my fingers crossed and sending it into the universe.
There is more than one that summer released this year,
so that would be that would be the goal at
the moment.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Indeed.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Indeed, all right, all right, So what inspired you to
transform Bye Bye Bye from a love song to a
breakup anthem?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
That was such an interesting moment because I was coming
back to the stone. I wrote it and then I
sort of forgot about it, and then I came back
to it and as I was playing it, it felt
like it was missing something, and then I was just
playing with different ways. The chorus can go here, maybe
(16:54):
a brey can go there, and eventually that's I don't
even know, you know. I mean, I'm sure you know
a little bit about our so when that happens, it
we don't know where it's coming from. I'm not doing anything.
I just got that phrase, but that like progression of
you know, of the course, and like it felt really
(17:15):
good as a whole, like a musical thing at the beginning.
But then the babe blah blade within the whole song
kind of the lyrics and we wrote themselves a little
bit more when I realized that, oh, the song was
about this relationship, which is beautiful, but it had no resolution.
But now this is the resolution.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
She just leaves.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
She can't take the happiness, it's too much. Or maybe
also maybe this was a premonition, so she basically leaves
even before anything starts. That's I think the music video
is going to deplay on that a lot that sometimes
we stop even without finishing up whatever this who we're
(17:59):
going into.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
So there's like an.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Abrupt thing where she just started running and as I
believe when people perceive music, songs, we've always interpreted at
our own in our own internal workings, right, so every
song is something else to somebody else, and we all
feel it differently. So I'm sure people will be able
(18:23):
to relate to that feeling where you are moving into
some direction. Let's say she's with this person, they're meddling
in love, and then next day she's packing and she's gone,
maybe because she didn't want to spoil it, because she
knows how all these relationships usually ends.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
But again, Peach, I hope people will be able to
listen to it, and it's kind of you know, it's
going to be something to whoever listens to it means
something personal to them, and that's the biggest gift when
we can provoke that in other people.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
When this is something that I felt, but now you
feel the same way, and so this is how.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
We can act as humans.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
But I will see thanks.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
All right, all right, all right, listeners, let's jump into
the single bye Bye Bye Bye Nat Summer, and then
we'll be right back to put her in our traditional
hot seat where she could perform for us.
Speaker 11 (19:16):
She could sing rap to poetry or poems, spoken word,
tell us a joke, tell us a story from your life.
Player instruments gives some advice, or do nothing at all.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
That is cool as well.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
But for right now here it is bye bye bye,
say too.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
It was me and my neuteity, even though I lived full.
Speaker 13 (19:51):
Click bring, it was me Lead is my new summer,
even the brand. Also many.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
His haunts on my list.
Speaker 14 (20:13):
On his cns on my list, then a sade him
plead scar and hold made them bye bye bye bye
bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye
(20:40):
by him.
Speaker 13 (20:46):
Every noon day he's kept on collar.
Speaker 14 (20:51):
And all my bad memories fade and.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Talk and smoke and we drink and we.
Speaker 13 (21:02):
Cap and funy feels like we made and like selt
with the new chapter.
Speaker 14 (21:15):
In my car allways shattered the fall, riding when God
away down summrun Brown run, because I said by by
by by by baby by by by by by by
(21:47):
baby Bye.
Speaker 12 (21:50):
Bye new way summern no way Gilmas week for over
round mon, I'm.
Speaker 14 (22:08):
Riding away, rode away so.
Speaker 13 (22:15):
Brown broncause a.
Speaker 14 (22:18):
Subbody by by say bye by.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
All right, all right, all right again, welcome to the show.
You're listening to b R L Picumanties Radio Live.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
My name is Deani and that song was Bye Bye
Bye by Nat Summer. Is such an incredible record and
I can't wait to see the music video.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
All right, let's go ahead and bring that back.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Hey, hey, welcome back your bag live with us and
in our hearts hire.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Thank you and Aara.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
It was so so fun. We'll just here the song
right now.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
So you.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Sorry? So are you going to perform for us tonight?
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I can read a poem if so, if that's possible, Yes, yes, okay,
this is a poem.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
I've spent some time living in a beautiful city of
Los Angeles. Right now is breaking my heart. But this
is the song I brought while I lived there, not
aphon the poem. We killed another night? Are you happy?
I broke another glass? Are you thirsty? Every morning I
(24:02):
get up with just one thought, Wait, what if what
if I could? What if I could resist? Does my
life even't exist? That's yours? Well? Of course it does?
Or so you say, then you leave. It's a puzzle.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I stay.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
It's eleven. Let's have branches that French joined right down
the block. I'll start drinking, and as always, I'll get
pretty pretty drunk. We pretend so much every second, every minute,
every minute of every hour, we pretend that we know something.
We pretend that we have the power over everything that's here,
(24:44):
over all that's going on. Wait, what if? What if
we're wrong? That's it?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I did. Do you still actively write poetry? Wow?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Yeah, that's like magazine. I could be even sitting on
the train or anywhere.
Speaker 10 (25:08):
Just always keeping a little bit uh be written now
now you know, not turn the phone is basy to
just put it in there. And now, mostly when especially
in so happy business, coming back into music, give me
an opportunity.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
To save these poems and turn them into songs. So
now I think more of a lyrical format. And because
something like this you can probably not put into music,
or I guess could be spoken word. But yeah, so
poets is a little bit different. But yes, I love writing.
That's my favorite thing.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
A nice So we have a question from the crowd.
Bobby wants to know what's been the most rewarding part
of reconnecting with music.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
Goosebumps. It's not not that many things that give us
goosebumps in life, right to me, Usually when I watch
some movie that touched or something but I don't think
there's goosebumps that are quite as comparable to the goosebumps
you have when you work on something, on a song,
(26:13):
and you feel like it's coming together, and then the
more you rehearse it, and then when you listen and
listen to it and you realize that it's now audible.
Something that was just in your soults in your head,
and now other people can hear it, And that's extremely
importing to me. That's it's unbelievable, sort of like translation,
(26:35):
you know, it's like we get the little start and
we communicate the words and music and sound, and we
get this spark and then we make something that has
not been touchable, audible, perceptible, we make it into perceptions.
Because feelings are very hard. To give you a tide
(26:57):
for my feelings even always say that, but you can
touch somebody's feelings, but you can't such but.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
Our feelings can touch other people's hearts when they're turned
into works of hard music, ardor, and I think it
comes to applies to everything else, painting or theater, movies.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Yeah, that's how we communicate, and to me, it's extremely
rewarding that I can turn that spark into something that
touches other people. And thank you for the question, Bobby.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Indeed, indeed, so net Where can our listeners connect with
you on the internet.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Well, the best way to connect with me is on Instagram,
and you can find me just by going to Instagram.
My handles nets Summer Music, and you can also check
out my website which is a neat Summer that us
and I put all of my updates there. Music. Like
you said, it has a little clip. It doesn't have
(27:57):
a lot at the moment, but a lot of cooking,
so there will be much smoker.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
And listeners. Just in case you didn't get those links,
no worries. I will have them in the description of
this episode and in the show notes. So all you
guys have to do is.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Just click the links and connect with that summer. Thank
you so much Snatt for joining us tonight. What an
inspiring journey we've uncovered with that summer. From her classical
roots to I didn't mention but yes she has a
modeling career to her triumphant return to music, and that
story reminds us of the power of passion and perseverance
(28:35):
and her hit single Bye Bye Bye, It's not only catchy,
but a testament to her creativity and her resilience. If
you enjoy this episode, subscribe to both That Summer and
Vigilantes Radio. Leave us a ratings, Share this show, and
support the journey by buying a coffee over at buy
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(28:57):
until next time, stay curious, stay inspired, and stay connected.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
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From her classical piano beginnings in Eastern Europe to her
rockability comeback with the hit song Bye Bye Bye, which
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is dropping soon. Matt's journey spans not only continents, genres,
but also industries, and her music speechs of transformation, of
passion and authenticity. So please join me in saying welcome
friend to the One to the Only Net Summer.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Hello, Hello, Hello, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Hello Hello, Wow, what an introduction. I really appreciate the
current words and I would like to share with you
the great news Bye Bye Bye is now out, So
the song is available on all platforms. Yes, I'm really excited.
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Indeed, indeed, how did you celebrate this glorious moment with
this release of a fantastic single and the beginning of
something new.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Well, it came out right around the New Years, So
to me this turned out not only into a celebration
of the song being out, but also of the new
year starting on a very positive, very high note and
hoping to just keep on this list.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Indeed, indeed, so that again, you know we are in
a new year. You know there's a new song out
by Matt Summer. So what's been on your heart and
mind lately?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
I've been fighting a lot of battles in the past
few years, with a lot of moving around and just
trying to reconnect to my art history. And I think
that this past year, the twenty twenty four, was when
I started seeing first results of that work, and I
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started writing new songs which I feel like they present
me much more as an artist comparing to the previous material.
So for me, this has been a little of artistic verse,
so to say. And now I'm just enjoying the ride.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Indeed, indeed, and as the one who is the most
closest to the trans information, the new beginnings, what's different
in your music career versus the older material and all
subject matters you used to write about.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
I used to work on poetry that had to be
somehow very dramatic, very tragic. There was a lot of
I mean, as you've mentioned, I come from Eastern Europe,
so Dostoyevsky here we come. And I kind of became
(06:33):
a little bit more light hearted. And that's why I
feel like rockabilly is also a genre which I really
enjoyed working and since it gives me that opportunity to
show the world's a little bit of joy. I've shown
in my past works. I've shown the world a lot
of the pain. But now I feel like I want
to show the joy and that's been the main difference.
(06:56):
And also the generatives. I used to work in more
electronic roc general, and now it's I want more acoustic instruments,
I want live music, I want to be in nature.
I have a more sincere connection to myself. I think
also because in a way, this is showing myself that yes,
it doesn't matter how old I am, doesn't matter how
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long I've been doing this. Every day is a chance
to start over, and once you get that winth going,
then this is right now. I just try to not
try to argue. I focus on the growth, yes, and I.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Think that's very important, not only as an artist but
as an individual, to to show people the other.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Side of the pain.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You know, there is growth, There is sun out of
the rain, you know, and all that what prompted you
to begin this journey and showing your listeners that there
is a fun side, there is joy, there is you know,
new beginnings.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
There is a journey to be traveled and experienced.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Exactly, and to me it became more about the journey
than the result. Yes, I want as many people as
possible to hear my songs, to enjoy my song. I
want to write more songs, I want to play, but
it also is taking it one day at a time
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and the journey itself, just being able to do this again. I've,
as you've also mentioned in your beautiful introduction, started as
a be honest and then I started writing my songs
and I always played piano writing my songs, and then
I had a band for a few years and the
breakup of that band is very dramatic, and after that
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I decided to just step away from music altogether and
try different things and modeling, lacting and all that fun stuff,
which I do love. But then some one gave me
a guitar as a present. I did not I've played
guitar very little, and it was some kind of an
(09:09):
event and I played a little bit, and then you know,
next week or so, this person gave me the guitar
and I didn't know what to do with it, but
I picked it up and it started playing it and
that gave me that opportunity to start a new and
I thought, why did I quit? And then the more
(09:30):
I played, the more I wanted it to play. And
then I started writing songs and Bye Bye Bye was
one of the first songs that I've written on my
new guitar. So this was, I guess meant to be,
you can say. But ironically, now that brought me back
into music altogether. And now I'm back at playing the piano.
(09:50):
And actually I just wrote a new song playing piano
like I used to it twenty years ago. So this
is a yeah, that's quite a fun, right.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Nice nice? So tell us about Eastern Europe. I was
life growing up, Well, I saw.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
My family moved here when I was very young, so
I don't remember much of it, and I really can't
can't say much more.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Okay, okay, so yeah it is yeah, yeah, okay. So
also in your early beginnings you had classical training, Like, wow,
at what age did you begin classical training?
Speaker 7 (10:32):
I was. I was six, But that was a common
thing a lot of people back then. They wanted it.
It's like a part of the culture. They want their
children to say, dunce lessons and music lessons. But I was.
I liked it, and we had the piano and the
house in my mom places as well, and yeah, I was.
(10:52):
I was really enjoying it. But I was really lazy
to work on all that classical material. I can't remember anything,
the guys, I cannot remember any one of those classical
pieces beautiful that I used to play the boss and
hold them the motord, all those things. And then I when
I would be alone, supposedly working on those and my
(11:16):
parents wouldn't be home, I started just improvising. And that's how.
And this in the very same time, I got a
book which was a poetry, beautiful mating poetry, and I
am myself humbled to say that I'm a published sort
and I write a lot of poetry just all the time.
(11:36):
And that poetry with my little improvisations started turning into songs.
And remember this long time. My parents came back and
they thought, I'm sitting there studying some montored very hard.
They came in and I'm just playing something totally different.
I'm singing, and they're like, what is this? And I said, well,
(11:57):
this is I think this is all of this world.
And they became really, really, really supportive. They I was
really excited when I was fifteen, they fully produced my
first album. They were taking all these different competitions and
all these different events where they were wanted me to
play everyone.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
But then.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
We came here, and that's when they stopped being so supportive.
And you know, it's interesting when we moved here to
them me being not from here, that was kind of
impossible to ever make it here, and if you look around,
it's not the truth. But I think that our time
and access people can get to music now and the
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streaming services and Spotify and everything. Basically, we have so
many tools now for an independent musician. You don't have
to think of an industry as this. You know, big uh,
something is going to come for you and take you
into the stardom and some big record playable. We're need
to sign you. It used to be only that way,
(13:00):
but now I feel like the seedom also gives a
lot of hope. And so going against my parents, well,
I started doing music here and proud to stay still here,
which is kind of amazing because lisitally, I do not
remember doing an interview about my music, probably no last one.
It's probably two thousand and eight, I want to say.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
So long time, yeah, yeah, okay, so fast forward. Now
we are here and joining this new record, bye bye bye.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I managed to see the trailer of the music video.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
And oh, thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Yeah, okay, okay. I think she's telling the story with
this song as well.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
It's like, I don't know, like she's running away or
maybe she's on the road traveling and just visiting certain spots.
I don't know, but there's just a lot of speculation
to think. The clips like twenty three seconds long. But
I can't wait to see the full video. There's definitely
a story there and I can't wait to see it.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Thank you so much for saying that I appreciated this video.
I had so much fun. I made it this summer
last summer and working together with my a very good
friend of mine who's as a genius filmmaker, and we
just went that stayed for a few days with a
very small crew. But I've also worked in the film
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industry for a while, so gird Of and everybody's experienced
was so much that we pulled off a music video
is Shoe that probably should have taken at least I
don't know fifteen twenty people working on it, and we
were just en handsful people. We really knew the direction
and the ideas behind it. And my friend who is
(14:46):
starting a video also my other really good friend, and
he played that cterrific. I don't want to say anymore
because I do plan to release the video a little later.
It's still in post production stages, but I want to
release it and make me be sort of an event
off of it, maybe play and also making this record,
(15:07):
this blot me to so many new people in my life,
like David Pattila, the producer with whom I worked on it.
He contributed tremendously to this record. He really understood and
selled me and just the two of us getting just
locking ourselves up in the studio for like eight ten
hours at a time and just completely diving into it
(15:31):
and finding that sounds because I came with him to
him with the same idea I used.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
To do this.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
I haven't done it for a long time now I
want to do this again. And it was so littly
different than what I used to do. So he's a genius,
an incredible human being. And yeah, we had a lot
of fun, and so we're working on a whole right now.
I don't want to see also sometimes so like if
I say a lot, I'm jinxing it. I don't want
(15:59):
to jinx it. But we are working on more materials.
I wouldn't say more, but there will be. I'm, you know,
keeping my fingers crossed and sending it into the universe.
There is more than one that summer released this year,
so that would be that would be the goal at
the moment.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Indeed.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Indeed, all right, all right, So what inspired you to
transform Bye Bye Bye from a love song to a
breakup anthem?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
That was such an interesting moment because I was coming
back to the stone. I wrote it and then I
sort of forgot about it, and then I came back
to it and as I was playing it, it felt
like it was missing something, and then I was just
playing with different ways. The chorus can go here, maybe
(16:54):
a brey can go there, and eventually that's I don't
even know, you know. I mean, I'm sure you know
a little bit about our so when that happens, it
we don't know where it's coming from. I'm not doing anything.
I just got that phrase, but that like progression of
you know, of the course, and like it felt really
(17:15):
good as a whole, like a musical thing at the beginning.
But then the babe blah blade within the whole song
kind of the lyrics and we wrote themselves a little
bit more when I realized that, oh, the song was
about this relationship, which is beautiful, but it had no resolution.
But now this is the resolution.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
She just leaves.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
She can't take the happiness, it's too much. Or maybe
also maybe this was a premonition, so she basically leaves
even before anything starts. That's I think the music video
is going to deplay on that a lot that sometimes
we stop even without finishing up whatever this who we're
(17:59):
going into.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
So there's like an.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Abrupt thing where she just started running and as I
believe when people perceive music, songs, we've always interpreted at
our own in our own internal workings, right, so every
song is something else to somebody else, and we all
feel it differently. So I'm sure people will be able
(18:23):
to relate to that feeling where you are moving into
some direction. Let's say she's with this person, they're meddling
in love, and then next day she's packing and she's gone,
maybe because she didn't want to spoil it, because she
knows how all these relationships usually ends.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
But again, Peach, I hope people will be able to
listen to it, and it's kind of you know, it's
going to be something to whoever listens to it means
something personal to them, and that's the biggest gift when
we can provoke that in other people.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
When this is something that I felt, but now you
feel the same way, and so this is how.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
We can act as humans.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
But I will see thanks.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
All right, all right, all right, listeners, let's jump into
the single bye Bye Bye Bye Nat Summer, and then
we'll be right back to put her in our traditional
hot seat where she could perform for us.
Speaker 11 (19:16):
She could sing rap to poetry or poems, spoken word,
tell us a joke, tell us a story from your life.
Player instruments gives some advice, or do nothing at all.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
That is cool as well.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
But for right now here it is bye bye bye,
say too.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
It was me and my neuteity, even though I lived full.
Speaker 13 (19:51):
Click bring, it was me Lead is my new summer,
even the brand. Also many.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
His haunts on my list.
Speaker 14 (20:13):
On his cns on my list, then a sade him
plead scar and hold made them bye bye bye bye
bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye
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by him.
Speaker 13 (20:46):
Every noon day he's kept on collar.
Speaker 14 (20:51):
And all my bad memories fade and.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Talk and smoke and we drink and we.
Speaker 13 (21:02):
Cap and funy feels like we made and like selt
with the new chapter.
Speaker 14 (21:15):
In my car allways shattered the fall, riding when God
away down summrun Brown run, because I said by by
by by by baby by by by by by by
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baby Bye.
Speaker 12 (21:50):
Bye new way summern no way Gilmas week for over
round mon, I'm.
Speaker 14 (22:08):
Riding away, rode away so.
Speaker 13 (22:15):
Brown broncause a.
Speaker 14 (22:18):
Subbody by by say bye by.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
All right, all right, all right again, welcome to the show.
You're listening to b R L Picumanties Radio Live.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
My name is Deani and that song was Bye Bye
Bye by Nat Summer. Is such an incredible record and
I can't wait to see the music video.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
All right, let's go ahead and bring that back.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Hey, hey, welcome back your bag live with us and
in our hearts hire.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Thank you and Aara.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
It was so so fun. We'll just here the song
right now.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
So you.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Sorry? So are you going to perform for us tonight?
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I can read a poem if so, if that's possible, Yes, yes, okay,
this is a poem.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
I've spent some time living in a beautiful city of
Los Angeles. Right now is breaking my heart. But this
is the song I brought while I lived there, not
aphon the poem. We killed another night? Are you happy?
I broke another glass? Are you thirsty? Every morning I
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get up with just one thought, Wait, what if what
if I could? What if I could resist? Does my
life even't exist? That's yours? Well? Of course it does?
Or so you say, then you leave. It's a puzzle.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I stay.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
It's eleven. Let's have branches that French joined right down
the block. I'll start drinking, and as always, I'll get
pretty pretty drunk. We pretend so much every second, every minute,
every minute of every hour, we pretend that we know something.
We pretend that we have the power over everything that's here,
(24:44):
over all that's going on. Wait, what if? What if
we're wrong? That's it?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I did. Do you still actively write poetry? Wow?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Yeah, that's like magazine. I could be even sitting on
the train or anywhere.
Speaker 10 (25:08):
Just always keeping a little bit uh be written now
now you know, not turn the phone is basy to
just put it in there. And now, mostly when especially
in so happy business, coming back into music, give me
an opportunity.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
To save these poems and turn them into songs. So
now I think more of a lyrical format. And because
something like this you can probably not put into music,
or I guess could be spoken word. But yeah, so
poets is a little bit different. But yes, I love writing.
That's my favorite thing.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
A nice So we have a question from the crowd.
Bobby wants to know what's been the most rewarding part
of reconnecting with music.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
Goosebumps. It's not not that many things that give us
goosebumps in life, right to me, Usually when I watch
some movie that touched or something but I don't think
there's goosebumps that are quite as comparable to the goosebumps
you have when you work on something, on a song,
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and you feel like it's coming together, and then the
more you rehearse it, and then when you listen and
listen to it and you realize that it's now audible.
Something that was just in your soults in your head,
and now other people can hear it, And that's extremely
importing to me. That's it's unbelievable, sort of like translation,
(26:35):
you know, it's like we get the little start and
we communicate the words and music and sound, and we
get this spark and then we make something that has
not been touchable, audible, perceptible, we make it into perceptions.
Because feelings are very hard. To give you a tide
(26:57):
for my feelings even always say that, but you can
touch somebody's feelings, but you can't such but.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
Our feelings can touch other people's hearts when they're turned
into works of hard music, ardor, and I think it
comes to applies to everything else, painting or theater, movies.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Yeah, that's how we communicate, and to me, it's extremely
rewarding that I can turn that spark into something that
touches other people. And thank you for the question, Bobby.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Indeed, indeed, so net Where can our listeners connect with
you on the internet.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Well, the best way to connect with me is on Instagram,
and you can find me just by going to Instagram.
My handles nets Summer Music, and you can also check
out my website which is a neat Summer that us
and I put all of my updates there. Music. Like
you said, it has a little clip. It doesn't have
(27:57):
a lot at the moment, but a lot of cooking,
so there will be much smoker.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
And listeners. Just in case you didn't get those links,
no worries. I will have them in the description of
this episode and in the show notes. So all you
guys have to do is.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Just click the links and connect with that summer. Thank
you so much Snatt for joining us tonight. What an
inspiring journey we've uncovered with that summer. From her classical
roots to I didn't mention but yes she has a
modeling career to her triumphant return to music, and that
story reminds us of the power of passion and perseverance
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and her hit single Bye Bye Bye, It's not only catchy,
but a testament to her creativity and her resilience. If
you enjoy this episode, subscribe to both That Summer and
Vigilantes Radio. Leave us a ratings, Share this show, and
support the journey by buying a coffee over at buy
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until next time, stay curious, stay inspired, and stay connected.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Thank you so much, Thank you for having me, Thank
you for having me, Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Indeed, enjoy your night.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Thank you, thank you, Peace to all. My name is
Deni and I am the host of Fidget Ninetie's Radio Life.
I think that we are beyond jes ask questions getting
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cool responses.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I think that we are here.
Speaker 15 (29:34):
As creatives to provide an example that you can do
things different outside of expectations, because some of us.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Simply we're not born into the club. But there is
perhaps a door window or back.
Speaker 13 (29:52):
Gate that we can leave a clue for you to
get into.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Life is short, but there are plenty of moments to
try and get it right.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Pursuing your dreams and learning from the stakes may be tough,
but regret it's tough.
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