Pretty Pretty Is Out Now!
My new single Pretty Pretty is out right now. You can listen to it anywhere, on all streaming platforms.
This is the first single off my project LOVE, forever. If you want to know more about LOVE, forever, go ahead and check out my last Blog.
I’m excited about Pretty Pretty – this song came together in a flash, like a moment you have with a person, maybe only once in your life. Your only aim: extend these seconds, stretch them, live in them as long as possible. Hear the echoes as far as possible, be one with the aftermath, good or bad.
I had no choice but to work on this track day and night – get it finished as soon as possible, keep the energy. No good in losing that energy working on a song, ’cause the energy is most important, it conveys through space and time; only music can do that. Something about the way I wrote this just made a whole lot of fucking sense, I was able to capture that energy.
Usually tracks take lots of time for me, not Pretty Pretty. Everything came to me in a flash, and I was able to put pen to paper and notes to Cubase in a suprisingly short amount of time.
The Need For Depth
This song is unusual for me – I’ve come to realize that I’m pretty hard on myself in trying to provide deep and meaningful lyrics. I want to make the best, the most referential, intelligent and unique and interesting music that I am capable of creating. That usually means trying to create sonic vibes in metaphorical ways.
In writing and producing Pretty Pretty I realized that there is merit in creating something stupid and simple as well. I learned that being blunt and open and confronting you guys with what’s on my mind directly doesn’t necessarily take away from the music or the art form. It’s simply a different way of approaching music.
An evolution in a way. This opened my eyes to the possibility of being frank, more direct, something I’m struggling with and have been struggling with not only in art but also in life. This definitely won’t mean all music going forward will be simple, in fact, the next song I’ve just finished working on today is more metaphorical and more intricate in ways, however Pretty Pretty opened up the possibility of doing this at all. It’s been a great exercise in songwriting and a greater exercise in giving less fucks.
Maybe the idea of trying to be more deep and intricate comes from being queer, a need to codify, a need to hide what we do, who we are. This bluntness is new to me, it feels liberating.
I’ve learned that I want to be more blunt with my existence, cause we deserve to talk sucking dick just as passionately as straight artists deserve talking eating pussy. I want to continue evolving into somebody living, talking, being truthful to both you and me, and our idea of life.
Endless Evolution
An excess of honesty in this world, maybe it can connect us more, without a need to hide. Also, a way of understanding each other: simpler language, less confusion. Something I usually work against, I love the grey areas, I love writing lyrics that y’all are able to interpret for yourself, so that there is room for you, so that you can insert yourself into situations that resonate with you, so that there is a space for you, in between my own words. To find hidden meaning with the hundredth listen, to come back to a song after years and seeing everything in different light, due to your very self changing.
That is the main way I make music, and I will continue to do so. Pretty Pretty is an experiment, a shot at something simple, straight forward. Usually this would end up on a harddrive on some random shelf in my basement, never to be heard again. I just felt like I owed it to myself to explore this way of working. And at the end of the day I’m proud of Pretty Pretty, it’s a different type of proud than I am of my usual songs.
Ultimately I want to make music that you listen to – that is the end goal for me. I want to make music that connects, makes you think, makes you feel, dance or love. So who’s to judge a song if it achieves just that?
LOVE, forever
phlwest.