Speaker 1: The conversation email Popah at CapeTalk dot co dotza.
Speaker 2: Let's finish with some music, and today we welcome back
Speaker 2: an artist we first spoke to on the show at
Speaker 2: the beginning of last year when she was just sixteen
Speaker 2: years old. You may recall she had to pop out
Speaker 2: of her school classroom to come and talk to us. Well,
Speaker 2: we've timed it better this time round. It is still
Speaker 2: school holiday, so we're not pulling her out of class today.
Speaker 2: Lee Devilliers is though still at school. She's better known
Speaker 2: by her a stage name of Lovely and has just
Speaker 2: released a new single called Broke Me, which we are
Speaker 2: going to play for you this afternoon. First though, let's say, oh,
Speaker 2: welcome back to Cape Talk and it's lovely to catch
Speaker 2: up with you again.
Speaker 1: Lee. Thank you so much for having me again. It's
Speaker 1: finished in a while.
Speaker 2: I know it feels like just yesterday we were dragging
Speaker 2: you out of the classroom. Lovely, you in metric this year,
Speaker 2: and I know you've already released three songs.
Speaker 1: How on earth are.
Speaker 2: You managing to do it all to keep up with
Speaker 2: your studies and still keep on recording music.
Speaker 1: It has been crazy in the beginning. It wasn't that bad,
Speaker 1: but when term two it was insane. I was late
Speaker 1: nights not to be very much. But this holiday has
Speaker 1: definitely done me some good and the music is going
Speaker 1: to slow down a lit of it here for finals,
Speaker 1: because obviously education does have to take a bit of
Speaker 1: a forefront now. But yeah, it has been busy.
Speaker 2: But it has also been very fulfilling, and is the
Speaker 2: plan to keep on with the music after the exams
Speaker 2: are done. What you're thinking around next year and.
Speaker 1: Beyond it definitely is music is definitely my focus, although
Speaker 1: my parents are more like, okay, let's just get a degree.
Speaker 1: Let's have something to fall back on, as it is
Speaker 1: a very difficult industry. So I'm probably going to go
Speaker 1: study marketing, which will therefore also help me with the music.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a double wheremy you get the
Speaker 1: degree and you can also help yourself with the career
Speaker 1: that I want to do, which is for music.
Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense. Those skills are going
Speaker 2: to stand you in very good state in terms of
Speaker 2: promoting your music. It's been created in future, so I
Speaker 2: think your folks are probably onto something. They're in guiding
Speaker 2: you in that direction. For the record, sure, let's talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about the sort of the subject matter
Speaker 2: of the current music. I know that you've said that
Speaker 2: a lot of what you're creating at the moment is
Speaker 2: intended for those who are struggling with their mental health.
Speaker 2: We know that it's something that the youth of today
Speaker 2: are really battling with. We keep on and on hearing
Speaker 2: about the growth in mental health issues in the younger generations.
Speaker 2: Is that why it means so much to you to
Speaker 2: focus on the subject material? Why does it resonate so
Speaker 2: with you?
Speaker 1: It resonates me because it probably sounds a bit generic,
Speaker 1: but mental health has been a very big thing in
Speaker 1: my life personally since a young age, and your music,
Speaker 1: cliche enough as it is, music was the thing that
Speaker 1: got me through. So it kind of feels like a
Speaker 1: sort of a guty to give that to someone else
Speaker 1: as well and fill the gap of the topic and
Speaker 1: stuff they're not spoke about when I was struggling kind
Speaker 1: of thing, and then actually be the person who actually
Speaker 1: talks about it, because so many people when it comes
Speaker 1: to mental health, they kind of they talk about it,
Speaker 1: but they don't really talk about it. They take the
Speaker 1: long way, most vague way to talk about it because
Speaker 1: they don't want to hurt any feelings or they don't
Speaker 1: want to get too touchy or too close to those
Speaker 1: delicate conversations. And I really just want to pinpoint it
Speaker 1: in a way that makes people actually feel heard, because
Speaker 1: you can talk to anyone about mental health, but if
Speaker 1: you don't talk about the specific stuff, they're not really
Speaker 1: going to feel like heard.
Speaker 2: And yeah, well let's talk about the specific stuff. Have
Speaker 2: Broke Me, which is the name of the new song
Speaker 2: before we play out the show with the tune lovely,
Speaker 2: do you want to just tell us a little bit
Speaker 2: more about what inspired it?
Speaker 1: Sure Broke Me is just capturing the intense emotions of
Speaker 1: a breakup, especially the first breakup. I feel for everyone,
Speaker 1: the first wife always the worst because you don't know
Speaker 1: what to expect, so all of a sudden, there's all
Speaker 1: these emotions and you don't know what to do with it,
Speaker 1: and you have to navigate that. And also it broke me.
Speaker 1: While I was writing it, I was obviously crying. It
Speaker 1: was written in like maybe an hour, because that was
Speaker 1: right after the breakup. I wrote a song, So yeah,
Speaker 1: while I was writing it, I also realized all these
Speaker 1: things that you look past all these like little mistakes
Speaker 1: or little things that they did that kind of put
Speaker 1: you off, but you didn't say anything because you were
Speaker 1: like so in love and infatuated about this person. And
Speaker 1: then later on you realize, damn, I really shouldn't have
Speaker 1: actually looked past those things because those are the little
Speaker 1: things that eventually broke it in the end, And that's
Speaker 1: where it broke me came from and just feeling totally
Speaker 1: shattered in pieces, and yeah, it's really just the deep
Speaker 1: dive into those horrible feelings you feel when you've just
Speaker 1: been broken up with.
Speaker 2: I'm really sorry you went through that, But can I
Speaker 2: just say what sweet revenge to take all of those
Speaker 2: feelings and turn them into a wonderful song that gets
Speaker 2: to be played on the radio. I can't wait think
Speaker 2: of a bet away of taking the lemons and making
Speaker 2: lemonade lovely. We're going to play out the show with
Speaker 2: your new track. If our listeners like what they're here,
Speaker 2: remind us where they should be following you to keep
Speaker 2: an eye for more of your music.
Speaker 1: Yes, so you can find me on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, anywhere.
Speaker 1: I'm probably there, Spotify as well as Apple Music and
Speaker 1: all those major streaming platforms at Lovely, which is l
Speaker 1: u V L e I g H.
Speaker 2: Well, all the best for the big finals that loom
Speaker 2: not too far from now, Lovely, and look forward to
Speaker 2: hearing more music from you on the other side of them.
Speaker 2: For now, though, we say goodbye from our show with
Speaker 2: the new track called Broke Me Allow Me a Dan.
Speaker 1: It was bad man,