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Casting A Sonic Spell With BAILEY SPINN · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Bailey s Finn and I'm a rock
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  Speaker 2: musician from Los Angeles, California. I've released an EP and
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  Speaker 2: album in the past, a lot of rock music, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to drop Voodoo, which is a single about
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  Speaker 2: people having a little bit of a parasocial relationship with
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  Speaker 2: you online, whether it be.
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  Speaker 1: An ex or an old friend.
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  Speaker 2: There may be stalking your page and are inspired by
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  Speaker 2: what you do and you know, freaks you out a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, and you don't want them to be watching
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  Speaker 2: you and you're not.
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  Speaker 1: Going to like them because of that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's really kind of talking about those people and
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  Speaker 2: standing your ground.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice, Botty, thanks very much for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, thanks for having me my pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: So, as you mentioned, you released you a new single, Voodoo,
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  Speaker 4: this Friday, May the fifteenth, So how you feel about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't had a drop in a while, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: really excited to release Voodoo and give the fans something
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  Speaker 2: new to listen to because I love Homicide, but I
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  Speaker 2: love Voodoo justin much.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really excited.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, can you tell us a bit more about the
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  Speaker 4: song from a musical point of view and what you
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  Speaker 4: were gone forward with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely like to do a little bit of metalcore.
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  Speaker 2: I like to get as close as a metal song
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  Speaker 2: as I can, But I also don't know how to
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  Speaker 2: fry scream, so I love to teeter on the line
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  Speaker 2: of how far can I go without fry screaming. So
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  Speaker 2: there's a really heavier breakdown bit as I love to do,
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  Speaker 2: and I really wanted to do something dark and a
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  Speaker 2: little bit scary. A lot of my imagery for the
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  Speaker 2: song was haunted and a bit scary, kind of based
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  Speaker 2: around a voodoo doll, very heavy. It comes in with
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  Speaker 2: some like creepy baby crimp kind of sounds, just to
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  Speaker 2: really set the scene of the song being dark and
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  Speaker 2: about like the scary people who are watching you a
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  Speaker 2: little bit too closely.
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  Speaker 1: I when I did to feel eerie.
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  Speaker 4: And it follows on from Pretty Cool that came out
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  Speaker 4: light last year and Homosong from Ellie this year, and
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  Speaker 4: it seems even more of a shift away from your
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  Speaker 4: earlier punks down into the darka heavier as you say, mate,
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  Speaker 4: was that a.
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  Speaker 3: Conscious shift for you or did it just sort of
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  Speaker 3: more happen naturally.
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  Speaker 1: I think it definitely was a conscious shift.
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  Speaker 2: I had tried to put some heavier songs on the
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  Speaker 2: past album and they.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't really feel fit to me at the time.
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  Speaker 2: And when I was writing the news stuff, I kept
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  Speaker 2: trying to do the pop rock.
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  Speaker 1: And it just wasn't sitting with me as much as
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  Speaker 1: it used to.
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  Speaker 2: And I had been really diving into listening to heavier
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  Speaker 2: music and going to a lot of heavier festivals myself,
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  Speaker 2: and what I was inspired by was very different from
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  Speaker 2: what I started out being inspired by, Like Avri Lavine
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  Speaker 2: and Paramore had moved to Bring Me the Horizon, Pierce
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  Speaker 2: the Veil and Motionless and White and started veering heavy
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  Speaker 2: like poppy. So I decided I wanted to try heavier
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  Speaker 2: and I loved it the first song, like it just
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  Speaker 2: felt right.
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  Speaker 1: When I did it, I was like, I think this
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  Speaker 1: is the right step for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, And there's gonna there's bound to be people saying, like,
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  Speaker 4: what the hell is Bailey spin doing on the cover
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  Speaker 4: of Heavy magazine.
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  Speaker 3: But to those people, they should go and listen to.
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  Speaker 4: Homicide and listen to the breakdown about three quarters of
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  Speaker 4: the way through it, because it's a heavier breakdown than
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  Speaker 4: most heavy metal bands I'm known have ever done. Mate,
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  Speaker 4: So where does that come from? Like during that style
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  Speaker 4: of musy, then all of a sudden, bang you're into
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  Speaker 4: a breakdown like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love the duality of a breakdown, and that's usually
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  Speaker 2: what I mean of trying to get as close to
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  Speaker 2: a fully metal song as I can while still having
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  Speaker 2: the beautiful kind of pop vocals, and I like them
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  Speaker 2: to be a little bit pretty and scary. But I
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  Speaker 2: just love those elements of like a heavy breakdown, and
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  Speaker 2: I love headbanging. It's a really fun song to perform live,
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  Speaker 2: especially during that breakdown, because it's just kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a freeing moment.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of the themes in Homicide.
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  Speaker 2: It feels a little bit crazy, you know, very much
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  Speaker 2: like Jennifer's Body, old movies of horror, like Obsessed with Somebody.
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  Speaker 2: So I wanted it to be a little bit scary
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  Speaker 2: and throw people for a loop, like you're kind of
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  Speaker 2: losing your mind a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: If you've got a massive fan base.
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  Speaker 4: But a lot of them are the younger sort of
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  Speaker 4: generation that started with you from your poppy, punky sort
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  Speaker 4: of stuff, right, are you afraid that a few of
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  Speaker 4: them might be a little bit confused or relenited by
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  Speaker 4: the new direction.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely had that feeling that some people weren't going
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  Speaker 2: to understand the new songs and how heavy they were getting,
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  Speaker 2: because I started off very soft. It was comparable to
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  Speaker 2: like Avril Lavine and Olivia Rodrigo and I started dropping
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  Speaker 2: some metal songs, but they were shockingly really accepting of it,
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  Speaker 2: especially Homicide.
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  Speaker 1: People have been loving Homicide and it's even been.
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  Speaker 2: Reaching new people, which is great and what I always
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  Speaker 2: want to do. And a lot of both the audiences
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  Speaker 2: and new people and the old younger listeners loved it
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  Speaker 2: because it kind of gave you a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: both of the pretty vocal, heavy imagery and then also
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  Speaker 2: you get a crazy fun breakdown, so it was a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of everything. And I was shocked and happily
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  Speaker 2: surprised that people really liked that song because I loved
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  Speaker 2: it too.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll think you also, it's like it's a perfect
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  Speaker 4: segue for children to get into the rock and the
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  Speaker 4: hard rock music. Like like I know, I can only
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  Speaker 4: speak from experience from my daughter's hates my love them.
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  Speaker 3: Every time I put it on, they run to the dells.
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  Speaker 3: But through music rules, it's sort of going through.
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  Speaker 4: Those different stages, like it shows them that there is
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  Speaker 4: more to music than just that element. So on behalf
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  Speaker 4: of dads everywhere, middle dands everywhere trying to get their
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  Speaker 4: kids to like music.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you, of course, thank you. You're the ones
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  Speaker 1: bringing them to the shows. I love it.
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  Speaker 4: So Voodoo, Homicide and Pretty Ill part of a bigger
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  Speaker 4: album picture or they just stand alone singles for now.
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  Speaker 2: Currently they're by themselves, but they're definitely going to be
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  Speaker 2: a part of something once it's released in the future.
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  Speaker 1: We're still a little up in there.
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  Speaker 2: There's no official of an hour, but I always like
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  Speaker 2: people to know that I am working on a bigger project.
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  Speaker 2: So they're kind of by themselves right now, and they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be all together on a fun project coming quite soon.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say this summer. I have no set date, but
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely gonna happen, and then the.
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  Speaker 4: Rest of the song is gonna continue down that path
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  Speaker 4: or you're gonna mix it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I would say they're all along pretty similar lines. If anything,
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  Speaker 2: they get even heavier than some of the stuff I've released.
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  Speaker 2: I really go for the more pop vocal songs as singles.
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  Speaker 2: The things that are a little bit catchier and are
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  Speaker 2: easy to put, you know, on the internet sometimes, so
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  Speaker 2: I think they can expect even crazier on the album.
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  Speaker 2: I've been kind of gate keeping the crazy ones.
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  Speaker 4: I saw the video of you doing some flylea song
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  Speaker 4: as well, like you can now her voice really well too,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm excited to hear where the rest of us
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  Speaker 4: going to thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely some Flyle vibes on there. I'm obsessed with,
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  Speaker 2: honestly any female rock vocalists in the space, so you
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  Speaker 2: can hear a lot of inspiration from them on a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of different songs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome. YEA journey the way you on now was
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  Speaker 3: being well documented.
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  Speaker 4: But when you first started on cheekchok Lin, did you
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  Speaker 4: have aspirations of using that platform to become a musician
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  Speaker 4: one day or you just thought I'd having to be
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  Speaker 4: a fun.
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  Speaker 1: I honestly blew up on the internet.
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  Speaker 2: I always say by accident, because I really was just
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  Speaker 2: bored during quarantine and I did it for fun.
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  Speaker 1: And I always was.
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  Speaker 2: A super musical kid, and I think where I got
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  Speaker 2: into acting skits and stuff was the most I could
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  Speaker 2: do because I was pretty anxious and didn't want to sing,
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  Speaker 2: so it kind of was on the back burner and
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  Speaker 2: I was doing it for fun. And then I realized
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  Speaker 2: that I could share my music and my story with people,
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  Speaker 2: and I started to do my own singles and started
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  Speaker 2: to do some covers on YouTube and had to get
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  Speaker 2: them to be.
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  Speaker 1: Accepting of it.
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  Speaker 2: But it definitely was always in the back of my
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  Speaker 2: mind of something that I loved, and I always loved
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  Speaker 2: pop stars and concerts as a kid too, so I
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  Speaker 2: was ready once I had chance.
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  Speaker 4: You spoke about, well, you talk about going on YouTube
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  Speaker 4: about twenty twenty two, you started putting you to other
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  Speaker 4: songs on there, So how long after you started doing
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  Speaker 4: that we're confident enough to release your own original stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It took about a year, i'd say, because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: even really have experience singing in front of people. I
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  Speaker 2: remember during the covers it was even a lot for
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  Speaker 2: me to sing in front of like my manager and
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  Speaker 2: the videographer or like the studio producer. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: very nerve wracking to be so vulnerable in a setting
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I really had to work past it.
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  Speaker 2: And we've definitely come a long way since then, but
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  Speaker 2: I had to work over the nerves.
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  Speaker 3: How bitch, you did.
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  Speaker 4: A big reason why people connect with your music and
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  Speaker 4: is your lyrics and the medical content around mental health.
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  Speaker 3: And personal growth. But you're only a young woman yourself,
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  Speaker 3: like you're still growing inching yourself. So I know it's
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  Speaker 3: cathartic to share that with you with your fans.
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  Speaker 4: But was it the big confronting thing initially to sort
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  Speaker 4: of put that out there when you still don't quite
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  Speaker 4: out yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I think so at first, and I honestly now take
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  Speaker 2: it as like my little therapy time to let things
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  Speaker 2: off my chest and write down what I'm feeling, and
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  Speaker 2: it just expel it into the universe to hopefully help me.
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  Speaker 1: Get over it.
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  Speaker 2: And I know a lot of my songs that I
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  Speaker 2: put out there to get over something that I went
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  Speaker 2: through or experienced have helped other people too, And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of listen to them now and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this helped me get over something, so I kind of
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  Speaker 2: like to do it, and now I'm brave about it,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't really think about, you know, who's listening
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  Speaker 2: to it from my past or if anyone will know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm talking about, because they're just for me at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, and other people luckily relate
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  Speaker 2: to them. But I always am writing about my personal
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  Speaker 2: life and finding the right people to listen to it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got to say as a father, there's probably
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  Speaker 4: twelve eighty months ago my daughter's introduced me to your music,
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  Speaker 4: so I had to listen to it and listen to
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  Speaker 4: the lyrics as you do. And you've got a really
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  Speaker 4: unique way of putting like some of the things you're
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  Speaker 4: talking about could border on be in horror, you know,
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  Speaker 4: something scary, but the way the way you put it
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  Speaker 4: isn't confronting.
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  Speaker 3: To children like it, they can relate to it. You don't.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking about being stabbed in the heart. You don't
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  Speaker 4: actually describe it. You know you like and a life
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  Speaker 4: piece me just your way with words is really it's successful.
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  Speaker 3: It's good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of time it's like metaphorical.
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  Speaker 2: I love setting a scene and using like heavy imagery
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  Speaker 2: when I'm writing a song to kind of get the
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  Speaker 2: emotion out. Like even in Loving Memory was super heavy
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  Speaker 2: on like a picture. You could see exactly what was
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  Speaker 2: happening as I said it, And I definitely tried to
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  Speaker 2: make it that way to get the feeling and the
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  Speaker 2: emotion across and describe what was going on in my life. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember the first time you ever heard one
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  Speaker 3: of your songs on radio? And where were you and
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  Speaker 3: what song was it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was recently when Critical came out. Serious XM
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  Speaker 2: Octane played it for the first time and they introduced me,
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  Speaker 2: and I got Octane in my car and I went
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  Speaker 2: and sat in my car at the exact time they
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  Speaker 2: were going to play it, and I was crying.
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  Speaker 1: I was so excited.
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  Speaker 2: I had never heard my song playing the radio ever.
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  Speaker 2: And they played Homicide on Serious XOM Octane two, which
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  Speaker 2: was awesome, and they played it right after the Amy
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  Speaker 2: Lee Evanescence or Amily Poppy and Cordney La Plant Clab
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, Wow, that was a crazy place
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  Speaker 2: to put my song after.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very honored the.
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  Speaker 4: Girls Astray and so mighty you planned on coming out
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  Speaker 4: of you to visit us and each time in the future, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I hope.
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  Speaker 1: So I definitely want a tour in more places.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't even made it over to like the UK
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  Speaker 2: or anything yet, so it's definitely a dream of mine
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  Speaker 2: to tour all around the world.
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  Speaker 1: That would be amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to yourself many story. Do you have
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  Speaker 3: a manager to handles on that for you?
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  Speaker 1: I have manager.
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  Speaker 2: I have quite a few people on board, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the touring. I got somebody overseas to so hopefully people
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  Speaker 2: will see me doing some tours and some slots overseas
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  Speaker 2: and there'll be a chance for them as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very nice.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Well, thanks very much for your tom balances
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  Speaker 4: being a pleasure to speaking with you.
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  Speaker 3: Take care of yourself in good luck with Vida. She's
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  Speaker 3: a cracker of the song.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I'm so excited to drop it.