Salomea - axxxis

I really loved your Instagram post talking about this very thing, the playfulness, the joy.

and how frustrating it is that artists are expected to justify the creation of music.

And usually it's because of heartbreak or overcoming something.

And why can't we just create for the joy of it and to celebrate

new

things about life and where we are?

Yeah, well, that's a tough question.

I was actually talking to my aunt after my post, and she was like, oh, tell me about what made you say that.

And I was like, well, yeah.

You know, I never received any backlash for putting out joyful music, but there's this pre-assumption that I have that... you know, people will find it shallow or I don't know, but actually I think there's, there's big, there's a lot of craving for lightness as well.

And I mean, yeah,

I think

at the end of the day, a lot of art, you know, there's layers, there's always layers and it's your own choice how deep you want to go.

But yeah, for me personally, it was just, you know, I, there has been a lot of, there have been a lot of like heavy times.

And I actually, I never got to writing that record about grief.

I've always been trying to, I think I've always been trying to overcome it right away.

And that way I never really went.

I mean, I did personally, I totally went into the grief, but I think musically I, I, it's always been, I've always been trying to transform it into something else, which I'm just realizing now as I'm speaking, that's kind of odd.

I've always had that, what's it called? Desire maybe, or expectation of myself to just get over the grief and find some other emotion to deal with it, which is weird actually.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean grief and anger tend to go hand in hand and anger feels much more useful than

grief.

But I find it interesting what you said right at the start of that was that you thought people might think it was shallow.

And I have that voice in my head too.