RA: You often draw comparisons to Paramore and Avril Lavigne; what draws you to this specific style of modern rock where high-energy hooks meet emotionally charged songwriting?<\/p>\n
A: I think I\u2019ve always been drawn to artists who can make you feel something while still delivering a huge chorus. I love music that\u2019s emotionally honest but doesn\u2019t wallow in it. You can be heartbroken, angry, determined, vulnerable\u2014whatever it is\u2014but when the music kicks in, it becomes empowering.<\/p>\n
It gives you a place to put all that emotion and turn it into energy<\/p>\n
RA: Your single “Break You” is deeply rooted in themes of defiance and personal resilience. How do you approach the balance between that powerful, driving rock energy and the underlying vulnerability in your lyrics?<\/p>\n
A: Although Break You has a lot of power and attitude musically, what really drew me to the song Greg Critchley wrote was the psychology behind it. On the surface it sounds confident and unapologetic, but underneath there\u2019s actually a warning.<\/p>\n
The narrator understands the damage they\u2019re capable of causing and almost tries to tell the other person to walk away before it\u2019s too late. Lines like \u201cI\u2019m not what I seem\u201d and \u201cbetter save yourself from me\u201d reveal a level of self-awareness that\u2019s really interesting to me.\u00a0 As a performer, that\u2019s what I connect to. It\u2019s not a one-dimensional song\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RA: You often draw comparisons to Paramore and Avril Lavigne; what draws you to this specific style of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-799847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}