1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,360 Speaker 1: Hey guys, I'm Kaylie Shortt and this is too much 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: to say. A questions it out you, Okay. So I've 3 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: talked a lot about the creative process and how it 4 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: works for me and I over the past year. I 5 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: haven't released any music for over a year, and I 6 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: think that's the longest I've ever gone, and I haven't 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: felt very inspired for myself. I've been writing all the time. 8 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I was focusing on the move to 9 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: l A, which was time consuming, but um, I've just 10 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: been kind of waiting for it to fall into place, 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: Like I remember the moment Open Book started to take shape. 12 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,559 Speaker 1: I wrote over half the album in February of nine 13 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: and recorded in April, so it like happened really fast. 14 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: But it was the you know, the chasing down of 15 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: the ins for ration, Like it doesn't really work like that. 16 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: You can't just run it down. It's like you're waiting 17 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: on something to click. And it's very frustrating because this 18 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: is my fucking job and I'm just relying on my 19 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: little brain to come up with something creative and exciting 20 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: and not to mention, like my job is creativity, so 21 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: there's still a lot of other output. I need to do, like, 22 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: you know, social media posts and writing songs for other 23 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: people and my podcast and all of these things. My 24 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 1: deepop store, all this creativity, and I feel they'd be very, 25 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: very lucky. But it's like you're just it's like chasing 26 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: a white rabbit. It's absolutely bad ship that this is 27 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: how like my life works. So I just felt really 28 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: like creatively stale over the past year, and full disclosure, 29 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: I was like pretty bummed at how the release for 30 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: my last DP went. Um, I wasn't I wasn't happy 31 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: with how it was promoted, and um, it was not 32 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: any one person's fault, but they're definitely worth some things 33 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: that should have happened that didn't, And it's just disappointing 34 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 1: when you work really hard on something and it doesn't 35 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: get the love you feel like it deserves. So I've 36 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: just been not really feeling like an artist, not really 37 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: feeling like myself, Like I was describing it as a 38 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: little douche, but I was describing it to Sam a 39 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:23,839 Speaker 1: few months ago that I was like, I don't feel 40 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: like I've been Kayleie Sure for a very long time. 41 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: I've just been Kaylee Anne Shure just like chilling and Um, 42 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: I had a right the other day and everything clicked. 43 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: I mean, there's still so many more things to click, 44 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: but I like it was like, that's so raven when 45 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: she has a vision and she like zooms out and 46 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 1: you just see her eye going crazy, Like that's me. 47 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 1: That's me when I get a vision for my project. 48 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,959 Speaker 1: And I am so happy to be in this phase 49 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,959 Speaker 1: of the creative process. And I'm gonna tell you a 50 00:02:52,000 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: little bit more about it when we come back. So 51 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: for me, it's always been like I need to have 52 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: a visual. I need to see some sort of like 53 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: color palette, artistic inspiration, some sort of thing that I 54 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: can turn into a Pinterest board before I make it 55 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: into music. Because and when I know like the aesthetic 56 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: I'm writing towards, I kind of like we'll pepper those 57 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: words in throughout the songs and then make it all 58 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: really cohesive. And you know, for my EP Awake that 59 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: I put out in UM, there was a song called 60 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: Candy on there, and it talks a lot about like 61 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: you know, like different like it's like it's just a 62 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: very like cotton candy sort of vibe happening there. And 63 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: the cover of the EP looks like I'm in a 64 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: bunch of cotton candy clouds and um. It also had 65 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: like a little bit of um like I was doing. 66 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: I had a very emo influence on that. And so 67 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: there's a lot of checkers from like checkered vans, and 68 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: that's I mentioned them in Cool Kids, And I just 69 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: created this like little universe at the project existed, and 70 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: I picked like three colors pink, purple, and blue, and 71 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: like also like silver and black, and just like ran 72 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: with it, and that was like the only colors I 73 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: wore for like a year long period. I don't know 74 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: if you guys remember that, but it was like my 75 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: whole closet was pink, purple, and blue. And I have 76 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: since branched out and I'm wearing other colors. But that 77 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: was a very fun time. It made it easy to 78 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: pick out my offense. But this time it just it 79 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 1: feels a lot like when things started to click for 80 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: open Book. But open Book was a slow process. I 81 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: decided I was going to make a record in June. 82 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: I got I just got the feeling. I was like, Okay, 83 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna be I think that's what I'm doing. 84 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: I think I'm making an album. I don't think I'm 85 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: making an EP. I think I think it's going to 86 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: be an album. And the original idea for Open Book 87 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,919 Speaker 1: was called Roses and Bones, and it was based on 88 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: this poem I wrote on my Little Sad Girl Poetry 89 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 1: account and it was like you have to let the 90 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: good things grow and the bad things go. Water the 91 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,359 Speaker 1: roses and bury the bones, and so was like this 92 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: kind of dichotomy of like really pretty things and also 93 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: like dying things. So like just the contrast of like 94 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: good things and bad things happening at the same time, 95 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: and that really helped me get going on the album. 96 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: But it ended up changing because truthfully, just there were 97 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: a lot more bones by the time I was making 98 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 1: the album than there were rosians. Like it wasn't like 99 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: I fell in love after a horrible breakup. It wasn't like, 100 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: you know, I started like I found myself for sure. 101 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 1: That was very exciting. I definitely I don't think I've 102 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: known myself better than I than I did when I 103 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: was making Open Books, like even even more than now. 104 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: I like where is she? Um? But I started just 105 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: there and elaborated on it, and then as I was 106 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 1: writing songs like um Alice in Wonderland and Gatsby. I 107 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this is a theme that's popping up 108 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: and it's literature. So I was like, I'm going to 109 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: compose the album as a book and it's going to 110 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: have the thirteen chapters, and then there's gonna be like 111 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: Alice in Wonderland references like teacups and um, there's gonna 112 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: be Gatsby stuff like you know, just um kind of 113 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: unhinged party things like there's an unreleased photo from the 114 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 1: Open Book photo shoot that um is me like in 115 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: a bathtub with like a bottle of wine. That was 116 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 1: very much the aesthetic was just like messy party girl, 117 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 1: ripped heights, like party dress that looks like it was 118 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: on a like baby doll kind of thing, and the 119 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: aesthetic just kind of unfolded. And I ended up using 120 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: a skull for my logo, which kind of originated with 121 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: the roses and bones thing. And we had these little 122 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: icons that were reminiscent of a lot of the songs, 123 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: like we had an angry butterfly and um, they all 124 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: had something kind of hidden in them that was related. 125 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: And so when these things started to click, it was 126 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: like the best feeling ever to just watch it come together, 127 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: and it made the writing process so much easier because 128 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: I just had the palette and the colors from Much 129 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: to Pain. So for whatever this new era looks like, UM, 130 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: the inspiration kind of started a couple of weeks ago. 131 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: I wrote a song in Nashville, of all places, um, 132 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: even though I've talked so much about Nashville and feeling 133 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: creatively like stifled there. Of course I wrote this song 134 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: in Nashville. But there was a song I posted on 135 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: my Instagram and it was like the first song I 136 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: wrote after I found out my ex boyfriend cheated on me, 137 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: and it was the first UM thing I really posted 138 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: that was like indicative of the fact that I just 139 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: gone through a breakup. Like I remember a lot of 140 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: people text me after that and we're like, are you okay? 141 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: And I was like, nope, not even a little bit um. 142 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: But I always loved the song and it was based 143 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: off of like an argument we had after he cheated 144 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: and he was like, what can I do to make 145 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: it up to you? Like there has to be something 146 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: and I was like thinking, and I'm like, okay, well 147 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: you could go back in time and unkissed her. That 148 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: would probably fix it. Um, and sometimes it's a real thing, 149 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: like where the only thing that somebody can do to 150 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: completely fix something is to just have not done it 151 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: in the first place. And that's a really schetty feeling. 152 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: I think you can come back from that, um, but 153 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: it's not. It was. It was hard. So I said 154 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: that to him, and then I was like, you know, 155 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: sitting by myself after he was staying somewhere else and 156 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: I just wrote the song and so that just fell out. 157 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: And that was when like a lot of stuff started 158 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: to take shape for the album too, and for Open Book. 159 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: But then I came back to it like four years 160 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: later now because I've always loved that song. I wrote 161 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,839 Speaker 1: it by myself, so there's not like copyright infringement or 162 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: anything like I have to worry about what that. It's 163 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: a percent me And so I brought it into them 164 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: and kind of mixed it with some other lyrics I 165 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: had written down, and we created this whole new thing. 166 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: And as soon as I got the demo, I was like, Oh, 167 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: my fucking god, this is this is it. This is 168 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: the sound for the next thing. This is like the 169 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: kind of lyrics I want to write. And there's a 170 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 1: line in the song that I feel like is the 171 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: title for the EP, and now that I have that, 172 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: I can like really build off of it. So I 173 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: went into a manic rage, like rages in like a 174 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: good rage, but like I was just like all over 175 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,719 Speaker 1: the place, like making Pincher's boards, and like I just 176 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: I finally came to me and I've been waiting for 177 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: this for so long and it feels so good to 178 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: have it, and I think things will move quickly. I 179 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: don't want to go that much longer without releasing music. 180 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: I felt really weird and um stifled, and I've also 181 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,679 Speaker 1: felt like very like irrelevant, Like my job is to 182 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: release music and I haven't done it for over a year. 183 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: It feels fucking weird to have an entire year of 184 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: my life where I didn't do that because I've been 185 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: releasing music consistently since i was twenty one. So not 186 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: the best feeling. But now I'm like, I'm high on 187 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: the inspiration and I'm so excited to share it with you. 188 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: It's still obviously in the very beginning phases, but I 189 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:00,319 Speaker 1: just like I know that now that this is clicked 190 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: into place, everything is gonna move so fast and it's 191 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: gonna be really fun Era. So I'm so happy to 192 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: just feel something again. And and honestly, there's no better 193 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: feeling than when I love a song than I wrote 194 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 1: so much that I listened to it in my car 195 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: like ten times in a row. And I can't stop 196 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: listening to this one. I can't wait till you guys 197 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: get to hear it. And um, I love you all 198 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: so much. Hope you are having a lovely week. I'm 199 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: Kaylie Shott. This is too much to say, and I'll 200 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 1: see you next week. Don't go asking questions now it 201 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: out you