My Centers.
Interview 01 Babi.
Babi is your real name?
No, my real name is Barbara. But they called me Babi since she was 10 or 11 years old, so instead of working out a name I decided to use this one for the truth. I didn't want to complicate my life hahahahaha.
What is music to you?
Music for me is a therapeutic thing. I've been doing it since I was 14 years old, because of a problem in class, I started writing and so on. And between playing the guitar and a little the piano I started to compose things and it ended up becoming my life.
From there I started uploading my music and, even if I hadn't achieved anything, with that I would have continued doing it until ... forever, because that's what moves me.
Your songs are a caress to the soul for me and for many more who listen to you attentively. How would you define your style?
I could not define it, because it is super difficult to pigeonhole. Sometimes I see myself as very limited and other times very versatile. Yes it is true that now I am doing all the same style, as well as very calm, very sad. But there are things that do not come out, I have also composed things more trap or dancehall, but right now I am taking everything sad, because yes, because it has given me the vein there. But I couldn't tell you what style I have because I honestly don't know.
Each of the moments that life has presented to me I have been taking wisely to what I think it is.
Of all the songs you've made, which one do you most identify with?
Well ... With Sweet Duel I think. It is the purest for me. I recorded it straight away, without cuts or effects, and I also wrote it straight away, I wanted it to be more virgin because I wanted it to be 100% out of me. The lyrics are also a bit dodgy, like all of them, but it's the most mine I think.
Your songs are very personal, how is the creative process of Babi? You start with a melody and that's where the idea comes from or you start with a letter and put the melody ...
There is always usually an instrumental first that I look for on the Internet. I follow a lot of producers on YouTube, I have them as favorites, and from there I listen to like three or four hours bases, bases and more bases. I keep them in a folder on the page and a few days later I listen to them again to see if I can flow into them or not.
Understand that I highlight them because I like them, but I don't know if I fit melodically. If I get a melody it is usually always the chorus and once I have the chorus I say I already have the song because I know that if I get that melody I will be able to use the one with the verses. From there I already compose the lyrics for the chorus and then the verses. Besides, it is always when I am sad, angry ... But when I am happy not.
Does pain inspire you?
Yes, basically ...
Tell us the name of someone you would like to work with, producer, artist ...
Producers, the truth is that I have not teamed up with anyone hand in hand to work instrumentally. I mean, I have received a lot of offers to be honest, but I'm not interested because I am doing very well getting the instrumentals of producers with individual works on YouTube. I know that it is not usual, because people do not like to complicate their lives but in my case they do.
And artists ... Right now I couldn't tell you, what I consume the most is rap. In general the national scene, and I would do it with any of these who represented me, whatever they did, if they represented me I would be freaked out. If you ask me for someone more similar to me, I would not know how to tell someone.
In terms of aspirations, where do you see yourself in a few years?
In some years? Living off of this, well keeping me from this. Because living means doing it quietly, without worries, and I don't know if I'll get to that much.
I am satisfied with being able to subsist on it. I am quite a minimalist and I like to save a lot so I would rather give up things, compromise my expenses, and keep from this than not having another job with a higher salary and not doing what moves me. Even if I don't do concerts, which I'm not doing right now, and I have to live only from the streams of the platforms and that is good for me.
Do you live from this right now? Don't you have another job?
Not right now, I am 100% dedicated to this. Nor do I study, I am clear.
Like everyone, I imagine that you will have certain references, what are they? Why?
I think that, for me at the level of discovering what music was, or what music did to me, it was like in 2011 with BEBE. But long before my mother had always listened to her in the car, when she was about 6 years old. She did a lot of things on guitar, acoustic. And I was captivated by her. She was a source of inspiration. Then an English girl who appears later in my life whose name was, well her name is hahahaha, Gabrielle Aplin. Always very acoustic and very intimate.
What happens is that when I was already with the guitar, calm, calm mode and that's how rap and the whole hip hop issue came to me. I did a merge. I strayed a bit from indie. I started with Canserbero and the whole move has already come.
But the only person who
He has made me unburden myself, in a plan to cry and thus, with his songs, it has been Calero, Calero LDN, which for me is my maximum reference at the level of composition and transmission. For me it bleeds you in the songs and writes the pain, as I do. It has helped me a lot in times when I have been very bad.
So, do you see yourself rapping like Canserbero for example?
Not! One has to be aware of its limitations ... Yes I love it, I love rapping purely, in fact I have some rap songs on my channel. This is not known by almost anyone. They are hidden and I will never take them out. Because no man, I'm not good at it hahahaha. Very mediocre. My best lyrics are rapped because I can elaborate but no no.
The role of women in the industry is increasingly important, not only because of their presence, but also because of their strong message and of equal struggle. Does Babi have a feminist message?
Well I think yes. I am not focused on transmitting it, I do not have any protest issue. But whenever I have to position myself, it will be with that focus. Obviously because it is how I think and I believe that it is the correct way to think.
Yes it is true that in my topics there are phrases with "empowering" dyes among many quotes, but I do not like to get into ethics because I am a calm person and when I start to write I think how my message can reach the rest, I am hyper-conscious in that theme.
Recommend us an artist we should listen to.
Puk, he is a kid who raps and the truth is that he has a roll for it and although he does not have anything on Spotify or iTunes he has everything on YouTube and the truth is that he is quite good.
What would you say to someone who wants to dedicate himself to this and does not dare to start?
Do not plan so much, do not think of the perfect moment because there is no perfect moment. The first song that I uploaded I was not happy at all, but I uploaded it because it seemed good to me.
I started the channel in 2016 and I was uploading songs, but my grandmother wouldn't listen to me, she still did it because I was clear about what I wanted to do. Let him upload his things and aim high once he has material and is aware that what I am doing is for me, not because he wants to become famous.
Here I leave you with the lyrics of the song that I also mark in my life.
I don't know what would happen
If my head explodes
If they would pull the car
Or they would throw in the towel but I have a mosquito that bites me all the time
An executioner who so that I don't cry slaughters me
A skin so thin that cottons skin me
A blacklist where my brains slip
Area where white dove never flies
Chernobyl and her elephant leg fall short And who am I kidding?
If you get me out of pain and I don't know how to write a beat
Maybe this is the price and not to go through the altar
I'm full of emptiness, but at least I have a metric, I already said it before (I said it before)
You don't know what it hurts to do business with death
Leaving your breath and begging for me to take you
Like a complete egotist who doesn't know what he's got, give it back, give it back
Give it back, give it back
Give me back, give me back
Give it back, my time, my time (No, no, no, no) Give it back, give it back
Give it back, give it back
Give me back, give me back
Give it back, my time, my time (No, no, no, no) Give it back, give it back
Give it back, give it back
Give me back, give me back
Give it back, my time, my time (No, no, no, no) I have opened the bark and today my mind is on the air
And even if it is uncovered you will never see a "for sale"
I have no reviews because no one can think of
Visit my gloomy avenue of disaster You call me callous, you call me coward
I'm a free bee, God save me from the swarm
Can't you see that there is almost no one left in this cage?
To eat your birdseed, I'd rather die of hunger It's like intervening on a suicide
That there is no other way out
Nobody sews the wound, eats the guts, drinks the urine One foot on the platform and another on adrenaline
Tell your cousin, neighbor or friend
That no one to attract attention is thrown away Rome did not want to end in ruin
She got the complex, she got the anger
She could spite me, the clamp went away
You are the current, I drift ship I prefer to touch it by day, I prefer to touch it by day
The night is my faithful fencing companion
The only woman I would kill for
Although it is icy and cold outside, it makes me feel so mine
She makes me feel so mine
It becomes a sin to have melanin
That I live my way without hypocrisy I already said it before (I said it before)
You don't know what it hurts to do business with death
Leaving your breath and begging for me to take you
Like a complete egotist who doesn't know what he's got Give it back, give it back
Give it back, give it back
Give me back, give me back
Give it back, my time, my time (No, no, no, no) Give it back, give it back
Give it back, give it back
Give me back, give me back
Give it back, my time, my time (No, no, no, no) ..
* I promise to Korea you THE Song *