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- 0:19Speaker 1: It's music's lost history. Enjoy your exploration. Hey, what's going on,
- 0:25Speaker 1: Miss Erin? Let's talk about your music.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Yes.
- 0:29Speaker 1: I love the way that you're able to give yourself
- 0:32Speaker 1: permission to explore. I always find that to be fascinating
- 0:35Speaker 1: because it's so easy to jump in on other people's plans,
- 0:38Speaker 1: but it's like when you get to explore yourself, it's
- 0:41Speaker 1: so much more important.
- 0:42Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 0:43Speaker 2: When I was first kind of doing my artist stuff
- 0:45Speaker 2: years ago, I was really trying to kind of follow
- 0:47Speaker 2: a formula or do what I thought people wanted, you know?
- 0:50Speaker 3: Exactly. And these days, I'm like, you know what?
- 0:55Speaker 2: Obviously, I care, but I don't care because I really
- 0:58Speaker 2: want to do what I enjoy and what, you know,
- 1:02Speaker 2: is coming out of me rather than trying to do
- 1:06Speaker 2: what I think people will want.
- 1:08Speaker 4: So, yeah.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Well, even the title of the song pretty much does that.
- 1:12Speaker 1: I mean, it goes against the actual current that's happening.
- 1:16Speaker 1: What you didn't say. I mean, who says that? You did.
- 1:19Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Where did the idea come about when it comes to
- 1:26Speaker 1: something like, I mean, to me, it's like Michael Bolton.
- 1:29Speaker 1: I said I loved you, but I lied. I mean,
- 1:31Speaker 1: that's what I love about a title like this, because
- 1:33Speaker 1: this is the stuff that creates the conversation. And then
- 1:36Speaker 1: people go, I got to go listen to that song.
- 1:38Speaker 1: What are they talking about?
- 1:39Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:42Speaker 4: You know, I don't, trying to remember, I just remember, like,
- 1:48Speaker 4: I was trying to, like, freeform write and sort of just, like,
- 1:52Speaker 4: all right, if I could, like, say what I wanted
- 1:55Speaker 4: to say to this person, like, what would I say?
- 1:59Speaker 3: You know? And, and one of them was just like,
- 2:02Speaker 3: you didn't say anything to me. Like what the fuck?
- 2:06Speaker 1: I get it. I get that. I get that. Well,
- 2:11Speaker 1: I love the way that you gave it that, that
- 2:13Speaker 1: folk little feeling to it because I mean, and then
- 2:15Speaker 1: the riffs and the beats come in and everything. I mean,
- 2:17Speaker 1: you must have really put a lot of thought into
- 2:20Speaker 1: this inside that engineering studio.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. We put a Janet Robin and I co-produced
- 2:27Speaker 2: it together and, um, definitely put a lot of, of
- 2:31Speaker 2: thought and time into it.
- 2:33Speaker 3: Um, yeah, I'm, I'm finding that, you.
- 2:37Speaker 2: Know, the, the, like they seem like whatever time I
- 2:43Speaker 2: go to like produce a song, it seems simple. Cause
- 2:45Speaker 2: I know what I want, but then it just, the
- 2:48Speaker 2: layers upon layers upon layers and like the tiny details
- 2:52Speaker 2: and this and that, and it becomes a much, um,
- 2:56Speaker 2: you know, much bigger project. Um, yeah, but we put
- 3:02Speaker 2: a lot of time and, and attention to detail into it. Um, and, um, yeah,
- 3:09Speaker 2: I had a, I had a vibe for what I
- 3:11Speaker 2: wanted and, um, and then Janet, we work really well
- 3:16Speaker 2: together because she has different ideas for me, but often
- 3:19Speaker 2: like they gel together so well.
- 3:22Speaker 1: So, um, um yeah well i i love the layering
- 3:25Speaker 1: because the layering gives you the opportunity to continue exploring
- 3:28Speaker 1: you know it's like these artists that'll put something on
- 3:31Speaker 1: a canvas if they go one shot with that paint
- 3:33Speaker 1: i it's almost like okay what didn't you tell me
- 3:36Speaker 1: in this story then that you've got on this canvas
- 3:38Speaker 1: because that's what i love about layering because as listeners
- 3:41Speaker 1: nowadays especially with earbuds oh we're listening beyond sound we
- 3:45Speaker 1: can hear that stuff going on in the.
- 3:49Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely.
- 3:51Speaker 2: Um, I think that's, um, some of the coolest stuff,
- 3:54Speaker 2: like particularly for, for this song, I wanted the guitar
- 3:57Speaker 2: line to sort of be, it's like own melody almost.
- 4:01Speaker 3: Like, like you could like almost solo.
- 4:03Speaker 2: Out the electric guitar doing the cool stuff and, and
- 4:07Speaker 2: listen to that.
- 4:09Speaker 3: Um, and so, um, Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate you
- 4:13Speaker 3: noticing all that.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Well, I was going to ask you if that guitar
- 4:16Speaker 1: was considered to be the co-writer in this song, because
- 4:18Speaker 1: you're right. It's got a voice of its own.
- 4:22Speaker 2: Right.
- 4:23Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
- 4:24Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of like, um, nineties, like
- 4:27Speaker 2: Radiohead does that really well, I think.
- 4:31Speaker 3: Um, and some other like more nineties, um, bands. And
- 4:35Speaker 3: I just have, I just love that kind of stuff. Um,
- 4:40Speaker 3: And so I was like, I really want to incorporate
- 4:42Speaker 3: that and have the electric guitar be its own thing.
- 4:46Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this question then. Does that
- 4:48Speaker 1: go into what the video is all about? Because the
- 4:50Speaker 1: vibe that I got from the video is exploration. And
- 4:54Speaker 1: so now when I hear about the layering and stuff,
- 4:56Speaker 1: I'm going, oh, wait a second. They go hand in
- 4:57Speaker 1: hand here. The exploration of the video as well as
- 5:00Speaker 1: the song.
- 5:02Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 5:03Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.
- 5:06Speaker 1: You know, I.
- 5:08Speaker 2: exploration is a really good a good word for it
- 5:10Speaker 2: because I basically just was like I'm just gonna let
- 5:14Speaker 2: myself express and be free and you know let the
- 5:19Speaker 2: song kind of move through me and how do I
- 5:21Speaker 2: feel when I when I sing it when I you
- 5:24Speaker 2: know uh wrote it when I play it all of
- 5:28Speaker 2: that um and you know, I could have had like
- 5:33Speaker 2: a bit more of a tame video where I, you know,
- 5:36Speaker 2: it was just a little mad, but I was like, no,
- 5:39Speaker 2: I'm tired of that.
- 5:40Speaker 3: Like, you know, watered down crap.
- 5:43Speaker 2: So I just was like, Hey, here's, here's me going
- 5:46Speaker 2: a little nuts.
- 5:47Speaker 1: That's a very smart game. Cause you know how we're
- 5:49Speaker 1: all sitting here watching our reels and our Tik Toks
- 5:52Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And that's the kind of vibe
- 5:54Speaker 1: and that edge that we want nowadays, because we'll pull
- 5:57Speaker 1: out a candy coated one going, I don't know. It's
- 5:59Speaker 1: not what I'm used to seeing. Yeah.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 6:03Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Yeah, it was honestly, it was a little when I first.
- 6:08Speaker 2: Because I just did it on my own, the video.
- 6:10Speaker 2: It wasn't like an official video.
- 6:12Speaker 3: That's why I called it Unofficial.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mostly was just like, okay, I want
- 6:20Speaker 2: to promote this song, so I want to get clips
- 6:23Speaker 2: of me doing it around my place.
- 6:25Speaker 3: And then I really.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Was enjoying it, and I released a couple of them.
- 6:30Speaker 3: I just put them on Instagram, right? And I was
- 6:33Speaker 3: nervous to do that because I.
- 6:37Speaker 2: You know, I felt a little exposed and I felt like, okay,
- 6:40Speaker 2: either people are going to dig this or they're going
- 6:42Speaker 2: to be like, she's a psycho. Um, but people really
- 6:48Speaker 2: dug it. And so I was like, Oh, that's cool.
- 6:50Speaker 2: And so then, you know, I, I kept doing that.
- 6:54Speaker 2: And then I was like, I want to want to
- 6:56Speaker 2: put them all together and make like a, an actual
- 6:58Speaker 2: visual for it.
- 7:00Speaker 1: Nice.
- 7:01Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Now you, you know, you're going to have to tour
- 7:03Speaker 1: with that red dress because people are going to expect
- 7:06Speaker 1: to see that red dress.
- 7:07Speaker 4: Absolutely.
- 7:10Speaker 2: You know, what's funny is that I've had that dress for, um,
- 7:13Speaker 2: I got it after the fire.
- 7:15Speaker 3: Cause my friend, anyway, long story. She, I think she
- 7:18Speaker 3: might've given it to me. I can't remember, but I've
- 7:20Speaker 3: had it for a while and I have not worn
- 7:22Speaker 3: it yet. Even though I love the dress.
- 7:23Speaker 2: And I just, for some reason was like, this is
- 7:26Speaker 2: the video I want to wear.
- 7:27Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Hey, so now I love the way that you really did,
- 7:32Speaker 1: you know, get into the song Sex and Candy because,
- 7:34Speaker 1: I mean, I know the version that we played over
- 7:37Speaker 1: and over again on the radio, but you give this
- 7:39Speaker 1: a twist of your own with that song intro and everything.
- 7:44Speaker 1: I mean, that was a brave little move there.
- 7:47Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. Yeah, I.
- 7:51Speaker 3: I think I recorded that in 2020. Oh, wow.
- 7:56Speaker 5: Yes.
- 7:56Speaker 2: So it was like a, you know, a distance recording or,
- 8:02Speaker 2: you know, I didn't really have a studio at the time.
- 8:04Speaker 3: I just put a microphone in my bathroom and tried
- 8:07Speaker 3: to sing.
- 8:07Speaker 1: That's nice.
- 8:08Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 8:09Speaker 1: Totally Stephen Romero Smith. I love it.
- 8:12Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 8:13Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 8:15Speaker 2: And yeah, I wanted to I was I was a
- 8:18Speaker 2: bit more like country pop then I was kind of
- 8:21Speaker 2: trying to do the country pop thing and wanted to
- 8:26Speaker 2: reflect that in in my version of it.
- 8:28Speaker 3: You know, quite honestly, like I.
- 8:32Speaker 2: Kind of want to do a new cover of that
- 8:35Speaker 2: to reflect where I am now.
- 8:37Speaker 5: Nice.
- 8:38Speaker 3: Nice. You know, I'm thinking of it.
- 8:40Speaker 2: Um, cause people really love that song and, and I,
- 8:43Speaker 2: I almost got a couple of sinks with it. Um, and,
- 8:47Speaker 2: but I don't feel like it really like reflects my
- 8:49Speaker 2: voice or where I'm at right now, but you know,
- 8:52Speaker 2: it was, it was where I was at the time.
- 8:55Speaker 1: So please don't move. There's more with Aaron Alyssa coming
- 8:58Speaker 1: up next. The name of the new song, What You
- 9:03Speaker 1: Didn't Say. We are back with singer-songwriter Aaron Alessa. When
- 9:07Speaker 1: you talk about your voice like that, I mean, so
- 9:09Speaker 1: then where was the mindset then when you were doing
- 9:11Speaker 1: Gypsy Soul? Because, I mean, that's another one. I mean,
- 9:14Speaker 1: that's what, you know, you talk about the layers of
- 9:16Speaker 1: the guitars on the first song. How about the layers
- 9:18Speaker 1: of your voice?
- 9:19Speaker 3: Hmm.
- 9:21Speaker 5: Nice.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Um, yeah, I, um, Gypsy Soul is another one that, um,
- 9:27Speaker 2: people really like a lot.
- 9:30Speaker 3: Um, you know, I guess I'm critical of myself because shocking, right? Um,
- 9:38Speaker 3: I'd like to go back and rerecord the vocals for it.
- 9:41Speaker 2: Um, because I mean, I've been a singer my whole life,
- 9:45Speaker 2: but I, um, I don't know.
- 9:49Speaker 3: I just I think I was a lot.
- 9:50Speaker 2: More timid back then and I didn't have as much confidence.
- 9:54Speaker 2: And so I I hear that in my voice like
- 9:56Speaker 2: it's a little it's just sweeter it's very young it's
- 9:59Speaker 2: very sweet and I feel like it It lacks a
- 10:02Speaker 2: little of the like depth.
- 10:04Speaker 1: That's so interesting because what I, you're, you're saying, you know, sweet,
- 10:08Speaker 1: I'm going Delta blues. It's almost like we're on, we're
- 10:11Speaker 1: getting two interpretations here. But that's what I love about
- 10:15Speaker 1: your music is that, you know, you could get a
- 10:17Speaker 1: group of people together and we're all going to have
- 10:19Speaker 1: our own interpretation. Yes.
- 10:22Speaker 2: Yes. My interpretation also comes with a very large side
- 10:27Speaker 2: of criticism and self.
- 10:30Speaker 1: Oh, you make it sound like it. You were in
- 10:32Speaker 1: the studio with yourself. I know you were there.
- 10:37Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 10:39Speaker 2: To myself.
- 10:41Speaker 3: I'm like, I hate it. I hate it. It's terrible.
- 10:44Speaker 1: And you know what? I chuckle at that because it's
- 10:47Speaker 1: like a radio person. We never, never like our voices. Never.
- 10:52Speaker 1: All the way through the entire career. So yeah, you're
- 10:55Speaker 1: never going to be happy with it. It's just who
- 10:57Speaker 1: we are.
- 10:58Speaker 5: Yes.
- 10:59Speaker 2: And I'm sure my new stuff that I'm so happy with,
- 11:01Speaker 2: in five years I'll be like, oh man, what was that?
- 11:05Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:07Speaker 1: Now, are you going to go on the road? Are
- 11:09Speaker 1: you going to be doing any local tours? What are
- 11:11Speaker 1: you going to be doing?
- 11:13Speaker 2: Yes, so.
- 11:17Speaker 3: That is a really good question. I, I think you already,
- 11:20Speaker 3: I do gigs for a living, so.
- 11:22Speaker 2: I do like 15, 15 gigs a month, but they're
- 11:25Speaker 2: not like artist shows, you know? Um, so my, my
- 11:29Speaker 2: goal for the next like few months and into the.
- 11:32Speaker 3: New year, scary, scary.
- 11:34Speaker 2: Um, um, I want to do a bunch more like
- 11:38Speaker 2: smaller artist shows with maybe just me.
- 11:41Speaker 3: And another, um, musician.
- 11:43Speaker 2: Um, um just to like get get used to back
- 11:47Speaker 2: in the like i'm an artist and i'm and i'm
- 11:49Speaker 2: inviting people to my show.
- 11:51Speaker 3: Kind of thing yeah yeah.
- 11:53Speaker 2: And then the goal um once i'm i still have
- 11:57Speaker 2: i think what six more songs to do um that
- 12:00Speaker 2: i that i kind of are picturing as like the
- 12:03Speaker 2: whole album if i end up releasing it as an
- 12:05Speaker 2: album um i've got Oh, the next song.
- 12:09Speaker 3: Stupid Feelings, you're going to love. I love that one.
- 12:13Speaker 3: And that's coming out soon. But I want to do
- 12:17Speaker 3: like a full band.
- 12:18Speaker 2: Show, probably maybe at like the Venice West or a
- 12:22Speaker 2: venue out here. So I want, yeah, I need to
- 12:25Speaker 2: get together like a whole full band. And Janet will
- 12:29Speaker 2: probably play a few songs with me for that. But yeah,
- 12:33Speaker 2: I want to like present the material as an album
- 12:37Speaker 2: in a show.
- 12:39Speaker 3: So, yeah, that's that's that's the goal.
- 12:41Speaker 1: How do you prep for that in the way that
- 12:43Speaker 1: you're going from the studio to that live stage? I
- 12:46Speaker 1: know that there's a transition there and sometimes, you know,
- 12:48Speaker 1: you've got to sit there and say, well, we're going
- 12:50Speaker 1: to have to take this one out because it's going
- 12:51Speaker 1: to be impossible to do live.
- 12:54Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, so that is such a good question.
- 12:59Speaker 3: I recorded three of them live tracking.
- 13:02Speaker 1: Oh, good, good.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Yeah, so I will actually probably ask the drummer and
- 13:09Speaker 2: the bass player that I had do those three if
- 13:11Speaker 2: they want to do the whole show. So I have
- 13:14Speaker 2: people in mind, which is really good, and they already
- 13:16Speaker 2: kind of know those three songs.
- 13:19Speaker 3: I think everything will....
- 13:23Speaker 2: Translate fine and well to a to a live show
- 13:27Speaker 2: I think um yeah and it's an interesting process because
- 13:31Speaker 2: I used to for for years from 2018 to like
- 13:35Speaker 2: 20 almost 25 I had a I had a band
- 13:40Speaker 2: um that I regularly rehearsed with and regularly performed with
- 13:43Speaker 2: um and we went our separate ways like the end
- 13:47Speaker 2: of 24 and And so now it's like another project of,
- 13:51Speaker 2: you know, putting together people and.
- 13:54Speaker 3: Rehearsing and doing all, you know.
- 13:57Speaker 2: So it adds another step.
- 14:00Speaker 3: But I am really looking forward to doing that.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Well, that's the puzzle. We all enjoy that puzzle. And
- 14:06Speaker 1: that's what I love about it is that, you know,
- 14:07Speaker 1: it's like, okay, we're going to take a step over here. Well,
- 14:09Speaker 1: it means this. Well, I guess we're going to do
- 14:11Speaker 1: that too then. So just bring it along with you.
- 14:13Speaker 1: It's more added weight to us.
- 14:15Speaker 4: Yes.
- 14:16Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 14:17Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, definitely.
- 14:19Speaker 5: And, you know, I would, I, I, my goal, I
- 14:23Speaker 5: think right now is to, to grow my audience more and,
- 14:28Speaker 5: you know, have enough people out here who I know
- 14:32Speaker 5: will come out to see a show.
- 14:34Speaker 4: Right.
- 14:35Speaker 3: Um, and I have people, I have, I have people, um.
- 14:39Speaker 2: Scattered, um, But I want to start building that so
- 14:44Speaker 2: then I can start opening for artists and doing a
- 14:49Speaker 2: bit more on that realm.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Yeah, especially since we're doing a lot more different festivals
- 14:55Speaker 1: or music events where it's several different acts that are
- 14:58Speaker 1: coming in. And they're always introducing. In fact, even last
- 15:01Speaker 1: night on Saturday Night Live, it's about time they start
- 15:04Speaker 1: playing the unknowns because that's what they did back in
- 15:06Speaker 1: the 70s and 80s. And that's where you need to
- 15:09Speaker 1: send your music as well.
- 15:11Speaker 2: Yes.
- 15:12Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. Um, yes. You know, I, it's really good point.
- 15:16Speaker 2: And I have been, um, so focused on the now
- 15:20Speaker 2: production side of all the songs and now I'm, you know,
- 15:23Speaker 2: I have, um, I think we have seven. And so
- 15:27Speaker 2: now I need to start thinking about like, who do
- 15:30Speaker 2: I give it?
- 15:31Speaker 3: Who do, who can I send it to?
- 15:33Speaker 2: Who can I, you know, possibly open for that's a
- 15:36Speaker 2: smaller artist, but, but, but bigger than me and start,
- 15:40Speaker 2: you know, getting those kinds of opportunities.
- 15:43Speaker 3: So, wow.
- 15:45Speaker 1: So where can people go to find out more about
- 15:47Speaker 1: everything that you're doing and keep up to date with you,
- 15:50Speaker 1: especially if you go bebopping into their town?
- 15:53Speaker 5: Yes.
- 15:54Speaker 2: So my website is ErinAlissa.com. It's E-R-I-N-N-A-L-I-S-S-A.com. And then, you know,
- 16:04Speaker 2: on the, and you can sign up for my mailing.
- 16:06Speaker 3: List to keep in touch. I send not too often about,
- 16:09Speaker 3: you know, a month, one or two emails a month.
- 16:12Speaker 3: So I'm not going to bombard you. And, um, and
- 16:16Speaker 3: then on, you know.
- 16:17Speaker 2: On Spotify, it'd be great to have a follow there. And, um, Instagram, my, um,
- 16:24Speaker 2: handle is, um, Aaron, Alyssa music. So if you just
- 16:28Speaker 2: Google Aaron, Alyssa with two N's on Aaron, you'll, you'll find, uh,
- 16:32Speaker 2: you'll find me.
- 16:33Speaker 1: I love it. Well, you got to come back to
- 16:34Speaker 1: this show anytime in the future. You know, that door's
- 16:36Speaker 1: always going to be open for you.
- 16:38Speaker 3: Thank you, Errol. Thank you so much.
- 16:40Speaker 2: And I'm really excited for you to hear my newest,
- 16:43Speaker 2: my most upcoming songs.
- 16:45Speaker 3: Stupid Feelings is going to be out end of October.
- 16:47Speaker 1: Oh, you got to come back. You got to come
- 16:49Speaker 1: back then so you can break it down with me. Yeah, yeah.
- 16:51Speaker 1: Because I want to hear it. I want to hear
- 16:53Speaker 1: some things in the background and then we just sit
- 16:55Speaker 1: here and swap thoughts.
- 16:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Well, you be brilliant today, okay?
- 17:01Speaker 4: All right, you too.