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Sad Girls Smile The Brightest With KARLY JEWELL · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Carli Jewel, pop rocker from Melbourne, Australia. I've got a new song
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  out, sad Girl, and yeah got a band as well with Shannon Mick
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  and Mars and uh yeah beautiful. Carli, thanks for joining us today.
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  Thanks so much. We got there in the end. It took it's probably
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  for twelve hours nearly to get it done, but we got there just behind
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  the scenes about our stuff up, spying the scenes at all. So,
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  as you mentioned, you're releasing your cracking new single, said Girl this Friday,
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  June of fourteen. So how you feel about it? I am so
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  excited because I've been sitting on this song for months now, like since last
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  year, I believe, And yeah, it's just just knowing how it turned
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  out was really exciting. And yeah, just to be able to share.
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  It's just waiting and waiting and waiting, and yeah, I think, Yeah,
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  I'm excited now you know, I've got a label behind me and heaps
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  of cool stuff coming up. Well she'll talk about later, and yeah,
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  it's just like now's the right time to get this song out. So I'm
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  pleased. I held onto it and yeah, things come to those who wait.
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  They say that's it and it's a cool song. It is. I
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  was just about to say that, so tell us a bit more about said
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  girl from a musical point of view and what you're going for well with that
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  song. I guess, you know, I guess I think about myself as
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  a songwriter a lot, and I'm like, I'm known to you know,
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  cross over to that kind of dark, sad stuff, but I've always made
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  it rock and you know, very blended genres together. And yeah, I
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  just kind of wanted to write a song about me, I guess, really
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  really about me. And I was like, well, I've always it's been
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  my greatest superpower to be a sad person and have so much life experience and
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  having so many things happened, you know that I've been you know, hard
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  to get through and traumatizing and all that kind of stuff. And I was
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  just like, you know what, I just I love doing what I do
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  and I don't care if I'm a sad girl or not, Like you can't
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  you know, you can still have fun with it. And I just really
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  wanted I love pop music, and I you know, I guess with the
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  first album, I really did like the hard hit him rock and this time
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  when I went to work with Stuart. I was like, you know,
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  I want to make a pop rock album, you know, I want that
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  pop, that that love of dance and you know, jumping around having a
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  good time to really come through. You know, it's it's all about the
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  good times now it is. Indeed. Now you say, Sad Girl is
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  about you and your life, But how does the song progresses? It goes
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  through like you a happy girl by the end of it? Oh yeah,
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  all the way. I'm happy from the start because it's just like, you
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  know, I might be a sad girl singing sad songs, but you don't
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  have to like me. And I don't give a you know, I'm just
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  having fun with it and I'm just doing what I love. And it is
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  a really happy song, like I'm proud to be who I am, and
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  you know, it's hard to say that you're proud of yourself, and I
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  really am. And you know, my grandfather taught me so much and when
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  he passed away, it was just my mission to use absolutely everything he taught
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  me and just go for it. Now I got to carry that, you
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  know, it's my atturnt to follow at his footsteps, and I reckon he'll
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  be proud of this, even the big swear word in it, as long
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  as it has a bloody good. Hookie used to say to me, I'm
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  telling you right now, songs got the hooks good. Now. It is
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  still a rock song at its core, but it's not as full as what
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  people expect from you, Like I'll cut short and stay it's a ballad,
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  but it did. It's a lot more even champoed and construction than people are
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  used to from you. Yeah, because I like to like go down a
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  bit of a journey in some of my songs, and yeah, like these
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  ones, I kind of wanted to just be straightforward, like you know that
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  that very pop kind of rock sound and just you know, make it very
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  cool, cooler than before. Well said down, it's said girl a standalone
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  single or is it part of a bigger album picture. Well, I just
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  went in to you know, record my first five tracks, and you know,
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  I put them together and kind of have them there ready to either maybe
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  someone might say, hey, like this girl writes or right songs and you
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  know, believe in me and want to help jump on board, or you
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  know, I'm always kind of of working away with a bigger picture in my
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  head. You know, to get songs done and you know, present them
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  out. And I was pretty lucky that, you know, that opportunity actually
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  came around by having these five songs. And I wasn't really sure what it
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  was going to be, you know, but I knew once I started working
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  with Stuart, I wouldn't work with anyone else. Like he said, the
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  bar so high that I was like, I'll be back to do the rest
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  of the songs. I continue to write while ever we're here. Sorry,
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  that's it's Stewart, It's it's you and I now. And yeah, it'll
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  be it'll come be an album. Yeah, and that is that song a
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  good representation of what to expect for the rest of it? Or is that
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  just a part of it? Yeah? Look, I think because I write
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  from feeling like I don't kind of box it in, like you know,
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  there's just going to be that style of every single song. There's there's some
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  big ballads coming, there's a you know, big piano kind of set sound
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  song, and yeah, there's a little bit of everything. But it's it's
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  it's happy, it's it's a bit more poppy. Now. You spoke about
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  opportunities before and putting yourself in a position where opportunities can come at you,
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  and that came me away in the form of new Australian label, EX Music,
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  have you recently signed with. So firstly, congratulations, thanks so much.
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  So what is something like that means to you as a band having having
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  label representation and by someone as solid as Ex Music. Look, it's it's
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  I'm really honored and just to have someone like really believe in me and hear
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  the songs and you know, and to recognize how hard I've worked as well.
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  I've been at this for the last fourteen years and I just I don't
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  give up. So one that makes me feel good that a label can take
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  me on and go, well, this girl just does not give up,
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  like she's not gonna stop, you know. And and to just help with
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  that bigger each because sometimes you just you can't do it on your own.
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  When you get to that certain point, it's like you need help. And
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  I definitely needed that help. And it's just you know, I'm so grateful
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  and it's a huge opportunity and I can't thank Tim enough for taking me on
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  board. And yeah, like I'm just going to keep the songs coming very
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  good. Now. You also recently got a new bass player in the form
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  of Mick. So introduce us to him and tell us what he brings to
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  the band. Mick Jones, Now, he's a machine. I love Mick.
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  I actually met Mick when I first moved to Melbourne, so I've known
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  him for like fourteen fifteen years now, and he's just the best guy I
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  know. And you know, I've watched him throughout the year's play in different
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  bands, do session stuff, due touring absolutely everything, and because I am
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  so you know, I go from genre to genre and kind of bring all
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  kinds of elements into the songs. He was just gonna be the perfect you
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  know, bass player for me to be able to go through that. And
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  you know, if you're going to do all these cool things, like you
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  want to do this stuff with your mates, and but at the same time,
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  like it's a hard worker and he's dedicated and he just doesn't stop,
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  you know. And yeah, since Mick jumped on board, like it's just
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  brought a new a new energy, a new life to the songs. It's
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  just yeah, it's it's I'm really excited to do this now with me Ken.
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  We played our last show a couple of weeks ago, and yeah,
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  that energy was just locked in and it was tight, and yeah, we
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  just felt like we're ready, unstoppable. Yeah. Now, the other exciting
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  news for the Carlie Jewel and your band is you're off to Japan again.
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  Very shortly tell us about that. Yeah, So we leave on Monday and
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  we're going over for our second tour now to do two weeks of shows.
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  Last time we went for five days. We did five shows last time,
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  and we kind of got to the last one and we were like, man,
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  we just can we go back to the first place and do this all
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  again. So we said to the tour manager, you free next year and
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  he's like yeah, when I was like, I was like, it's good
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  weather now, I was like, same time next year, I go,
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  but I'll make it a week later so I can have my birthday in Japan.
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  So yeah, we locked Nick in and hit Aaron back up at Paranormal
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  Activities and said we want to come back next year, but we're going to
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  do two weeks instead. So we absolutely fell in love with Japan and the
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  response was just insane. I even went down to Tower Records to see if
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  they had any of my albums left from last time and they'd sold out,
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  which was just like huge the previous label I was with a couple of years
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  ago when I did the album got us in there, So yeah, that
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  was that was insane too. Just have that happen, you know, And
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  and just the way, like the respect and the way these musicians work together,
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  and the venues and you know, every night you play into a packed
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  room and you don't even know these people. They're just they're proud and they
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  want to be a part and just makes you want to be a better person.
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  Man. I just I would live there in a heartbeat. Like it's
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  just the most amazing place I've ever been. Yeah, second all of that,
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  I've been there a couple of times. And yeah, so what about
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  after that when you come back from Japan? What do you got planned?
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  Just finishing up a couple of tracks and then I'll yeah, just be working.
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  I might do a few acoustic things in between. I'm looking at doing
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  and then I've got videos to make, so I've locked in folding as We've
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  got four more videos to make as soon as I get back. So yeah,
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  a lot of hard work videos, a few acoustic shows, and then
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  October and back to recording with Stewart Doo. Yeah, just keep smashing out
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  the tracks. Yeah. Well, in the meantime, Said Girl is premiering
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  in Heavy this Friday, June and fourteenth. It'll be available on all the
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  unusual streaming channels as well. And he's a crack up a song mate.
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  So I look forward to hearing the rest of them. Oh, I can't
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  wait. It's like just having these is like it's like, yeah, I'm
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  so excited. I was just I've never had such huge songs like and you
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  know, just I learned so much also working with Stuart that I'll like,
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  Yeah, I just can't believe they're so big. Yeah, I didn't know
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  what to do with them. I actually told Stut when I leave, I'll
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  have to ring you because I don't think I know what to do with big
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  songs like this. And then you know Tim, Tim had to listen and
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  he'll help me out, won't get it wrong, and