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A Fans Perspective On BAILEY SPINN · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 3: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Bailey Spin. I'm a rock musician from
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, California. Started my journey on TikTok and YouTube
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  Speaker 1: and now I've released an EP and an album and
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to release a song called Voodoo on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: which is a darker metal inspired track, and I'm really
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  Speaker 1: excited to chat.
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  Speaker 2: Was that someone who inspired you to make FOODO? It's not.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you decide to make it like that?
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  Speaker 1: I decided to make Voodoo because I had an old
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  Speaker 1: friend who was doing some shady stuff and I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get my feelings out there, and I really like
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  Speaker 1: to write songs to get over it. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've all had a bad friend once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: so I wanted to write it all down and get
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  Speaker 1: it off my chest. And I love making heavier music,
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  Speaker 1: so I wanted it to feel a little spooky and scary,
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  Speaker 1: a kind of baby doll vibes, and I made like
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  Speaker 1: a Teddy Bear for the visual stuff that's coming out
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  Speaker 1: very soon. So I just wanted to talk about my
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  Speaker 1: experience with that person and how they were kind of
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  Speaker 1: stalking me online. It's very easy to stock people on
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  Speaker 1: the internet nowadays.
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  Speaker 2: What made you want to become a single.
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  Speaker 1: I always loved music growing up. I started playing instruments
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  Speaker 1: super young. In fifth grade, I played the viola. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't very good at that, and then I started playing
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  Speaker 1: the flute. And then when I was in band, they
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  Speaker 1: said they needed more people to play brass instruments, so
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  Speaker 1: I started playing the trombone. I also played the ukulele
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  Speaker 1: and the guitar, and I loved musical theater. And so
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  Speaker 1: when I started on TikTok and YouTube, I was too
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  Speaker 1: scared to post my singing voice online. And it's very
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  Speaker 1: nerve wracking to be that vulnerable. So I waited a while,
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  Speaker 1: and then once I built up my confidence, I started
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  Speaker 1: making my own songs and releasing them and really diving
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  Speaker 1: into it.
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  Speaker 3: What was the inspiration for most of your songs?
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  Speaker 1: I like to write most of my songs about stuff
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  Speaker 1: that's happened in my personal life, whether it be a breakup,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's a friendship breakup, or talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people who have done me wrong. A lot of my
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  Speaker 1: songs come from a very personal place, even the biggest one,
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  Speaker 1: happy ending. I'm definitely a hopeless romantic. Haven't had a
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend in a very long time, so I wrote it
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  Speaker 1: about feeling super single and kind of like there was
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  Speaker 1: no one out there for me, and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: feel sad like a Disney movie, and I like to
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  Speaker 1: get everything off my chest in my songs.
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  Speaker 3: Who's a singer you hope to collaborate with in the fatuell.
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I would love to collaborate with a ton of people.
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  Speaker 1: I love Evanescence so much. I think Amy Lee would
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  Speaker 1: be the top of my list, just because I'm a
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  Speaker 1: very big fan of her. Also Poppy. I love Maggie Lindeman.
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  Speaker 1: She was a huge inspiration to me when I was
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  Speaker 1: starting making music, and I've met her and she's very nice,
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  Speaker 1: so she would be a very cool collab to have too.
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  Speaker 1: There's definitely a ton of people.
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  Speaker 3: Is it true that your music is based around the
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  Speaker 3: two thousands, pop punk and love lives?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. That was a bunch of my inspirations
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  Speaker 1: starting out. I loved all of that stuff, and it's
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  Speaker 1: how I got into rock music. I loved Avril Levine
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  Speaker 1: and even I'm a huge Olivia Rodrigo fan, so I
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  Speaker 1: loved her rock and I wanted to make something similar
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  Speaker 1: that was a little bit girly and fun. It makes
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  Speaker 1: you want to dance but still rock music. So I
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  Speaker 1: took inspiration from a ton of two thousand spands like
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  Speaker 1: fly Leaf and Paramore too.
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  Speaker 3: What asson ward you'd like to say to inspiring thing
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  Speaker 3: its or people mind to see you as an idol
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  Speaker 3: or would like to become you in the future.
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  Speaker 1: I would say to chase after your dreams every single day,
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  Speaker 1: because the way I started on the internet was just
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  Speaker 1: by posting every single day and not giving up even
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  Speaker 1: when things seemed practically impossible. I've had so many moments
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  Speaker 1: online where I thought it was the end of my
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  Speaker 1: career and maybe people were being really mean to me,
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  Speaker 1: but I always say, do not listen to them. As
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  Speaker 1: hard as it can be when somebody's making fun of you,
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  Speaker 1: you just have to know what you want and follow
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  Speaker 1: your dream no matter what it takes. Because I've definitely
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  Speaker 1: gotten there, and I encourage other people to follow and
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  Speaker 1: do whatever they want. If it's music, art, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: want to be a YouTuber. You just got to keep
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  Speaker 1: trying and find what you like and what works for you.
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  Speaker 2: Is that goal you're watch working to watch in the teacher.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think one of my goals is I really
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  Speaker 1: want to play a music festival. I've been to a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them, but I haven't gotten to play a
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  Speaker 1: music festival yet. And so I've really had that on
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  Speaker 1: my vision board and my dream board for a really
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  Speaker 1: long time. So hopefully someone will see me. Maybe I
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  Speaker 1: Warp Tour, Welcome to Rockville when we were young, any
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  Speaker 1: of them, I'd be very excited to play. Maybe Coach Ella.
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  Speaker 3: It's there gonna be a music video for Food, and
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  Speaker 3: if so, where would you like it to be placed at.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a music video plan for Voodoo this
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  Speaker 1: time around. There might be one when I drop an album.
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  Speaker 1: But for Voodoo, I did do a cover art shoot,
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted to pick a really scary location, like
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  Speaker 1: a vintage room with the wallpaper kind of peeling off,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, there's some mysterious stains all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little grimy and scary, looking like a horror movie.
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  Speaker 1: So I always like to have really spooky sets, and
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  Speaker 1: I like to dress very pretty, So I like the
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  Speaker 1: contrast of having a spooky, scary background and then be
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  Speaker 1: wearing like a beautiful skirt on top of it. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much, of course, thank you