Meyy
‘to me, lust is like chaos or something.. It's a perfume that fills your head and your thoughts.. And all of a sudden you can't control anything anymore.. Its a desire like a storm… the best drug ever to me…..’ Lines from first Track Orchid of, NEON ANGEL..
Meyy, what music means to you?
Music is an amplification of emotions. Both in terms of making or listening to it.
Performing arts is not new for you, please take us through the memories of your early years of practicing your crafts.
I’ve been singing for as long as I remember, just randomly and constantly. Literally, no matter where I was, I was singing or performing even lol. Next to that, I danced ballet in a conservatory until I was 18 years old. Ballet taught me discipline through my craft. Really in-depth learning and sculpting of your discipline if you want it to be successful. I definitely took that with me in my approach to music.
Last year you released your ep, NEON ANGEL Tell us a bit about making it. What inspired you and how was the overall process?
Neon Angel was my first consciously crafted project. It was very well-founded and decorated with the help of my incredibly talented friends and producers. It felt like a confident expansion in my palette. The whole process just felt so exciting. With my first songs, I was maybe a bit more scared or hesitant, but with this project, I was so confident with what we had created. I started making music all by myself from a very young age, I was never in a very creative environment. I was doing school and ballet very intensely so that took up all of my time. Music was something so personal to me, something I just did by myself and for myself in my room. When I started posting bits of me singing or my own songs, breaking that fourth wall, it definitely disrupted my take on music for a bit. I felt unentitled to artistry or making music for the longest time. I had to build a belief in myself as an artist. This was also only possible through the amazing people I met along the way that are now part of the project. Neon Angel is the first result of that. Of me confidently celebrating the world we created.
What artists and musicians you grew up tuning to? How does your past influence your work or anything that you do now?
I was always drawn to minimalistic, heavy sub, and sensual music. In terms of genres, I guess it was RnB/trap/electronic. Very protagonistic music, as in there would always be a very clear narrative embedded in an appealing soundscape. I think ultimately I always had to feel a story (verbally or sonically) that could resonate with my life at that moment. That definitely shaped the way I see or make music.
What impact do visual representation and creative direction have on your music and style?
The process of making music is very imaginative to me so everything surrounding the songs is a well-considered elongation of that. But I’m also so lucky to have an amazing team of people around me who not only understand/mirror that vision but also materialize and elevate it into something beyond my initial intention.
You recently released your new single “BLUSH” what is the story, are you currently in love?
Blush is about crushing on someone. It’s about those playful and exciting first moments. I think the song translates that very well, the fun and the animation of it all. I am constantly in love. It’s my default setting lol. I’ve either constantly been in love or never but that would result in the same state really so I don’t question it that much. I think being in love is an internal conversation anyway and other people are only there to protect that conversation. Ultimately it’s something that you feel inside of yourself.
I wonder how you would have spent your lockdown? What effect did being in lockdown had on you?
I spent the lockdown with my family in Belgium. And even though I would never label the pandemic as an event, as anything positively connotated I think that for me personally, it was a necessary pause. It gave me space and time to unlock and understand some things I wouldn’t have if it weren’t for covid. It definitely also gave me time to spiral on topics like humanitarian constructs or what I thought love was at the time which definitely caused some momentary discomfort but all in all I think that even from those lows I grew further!
Do you have any guilty pleasures?
I’m struggling with labeling my likes or pastime as “guilty”. I believe I like, what I like and do, what I do with intention, not with guilt.
Last but not least.. Next year you releasing new music. Can you tell us what is inspiring you to make that?
My own romantic delusions.
Ending note..
With new music coming? How excited are you?
very very very!!!
I feel like my project and I have grown a lot, and I’m excited to share that growth.
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