A Little Jaded - Episode 12
Speaker 1: (00:00)
Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of a little jaded hosted by Jaded productions. For anybody who is unfamiliar with Jaded productions, It is an artist management company, but we dabble in everything pretty much. We do music journalism on our blog, check out our website, jadedproductions.org. We have our Instagram where we shoot out all of our Tik Tok content. Obviously we have our Tik Tok also, and we just do everything under the sun pretty much. And I'm Joanna, the executive VP here at Jaded, and I'm here with Jade, our founder and president.
Speaker 2: (00:35)
Hi everyone. My name is Jade Zalevsky. Uh, if you're new here, welcome, I am so excited for this episode, uh, because we have the second artist, uh, on the Jaded productions roster here to talk about her new single ‘favorite secret’, it is Eraste! How are you?
Speaker 3: (00:59)
Hi, it's Eraste. Um, I'm good. How are you all?
Speaker 1: (1:04)
Great!
Speaker 2: (01:04)
Doing great. I'm so excited that you're here and I'm so excited for the song. It's like, I've been bopping into it for a week now.
Speaker 3:
I think everyone will realize they've been bopping it for a while. Um, I am excited. Um, I can't believe we're doing a release and I'm just super excited to talk a little bit about me and my music and go more in depth with the jaded team, that I love so much.
Speaker 2:
Absolutely. I love it, I love it. I love being on your team. Uh, so just like to start us out here, you know, where are you from? You know, what do you do besides music? You know, what are your passions, hobbies, fun, interesting facts. You know, we'll, let's pretend like we're sitting in a circle and we're doing icebreakers!
Speaker 3:
I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1:
Icebreakers!
Speaker 3:
Okay. Uh, where am I from? I'm from the Texas panhandle, um, a very small town with like 3000 people. Uh, don't ask me how I fit all of my personality in that town. It was a miserable, um, but it was really humbling to say to least. Uh, so yeah, I grew up in the Texas panhandle. I'm the youngest of five. Um, and as far as music goes, I didn't really have a whole, a lot of experience in music. I grew up, um, leading worship in the church and I say leading worship in the church, mostly like a church goer. And I would have like a moment here and there. Um, but whenever I got like eight grade to like a senior in high school, I would go to church camp and that's where I would like lead worship. And I taught myself the guitar. Um, I had a little bit of piano lessons, but other than that, I taught myself piano, guitar, stringed instruments, how to like, listen, harmonies, all that stuff just because I had a natural ear for it.
Um, but yeah, uh, I went to church camp and I, we lead worship and that was like a huge, huge, uh, start to like my love for music. So, um, it was really great. And like I said, my parents weren't super musical. Um, so I was kind of like the only one and my, I have three sisters and one brother and none of them could, could hold a tune. Um, one of them played the clarinet, which I like bully her for all the time *laughs*. Um, cause I feel like that's just a really silly instrument to play. Um, but yeah. Uh, and so I was just kind of alone in that. So a lot of my music that I grew up listening to was like, just whatever was popular, um, on the charts, a lot of like Katy Perry, a lot of pop music, um, Rihanna, for some reason, my sisters like loved her.
Speaker 3: (03:41)
Uh, and so just like whatever was popular at that time. And so I think that's why I just love pop music with like my entire soul. Um, so yeah, that's kind of how it started. Um, some fun facts about me. Uh, I'm a Gemini with a Scorpio, wait, Scorpio moon and rising, um, super fun. Um, I can juggle, super fun. And I wanted, I can't believe I haven't said this in an interview yet, but whenever I was in college, my brief stint in college, I tried out, this is so embarrassing *laughs*. I tried out for an acapella team and they denied me! *laughs*
Speaker 1:
*laughs* Oh my gosh!
Speaker 3:
I was convinced that my life was going to be like pitch perfect. And they said, they said, no, thank you.
Speaker 2:
that is hilarious.
Speaker 3:
That is like the first L that I took ever. Um *laughs* that’s the way to humble you as a musician.
Speaker 1: (04:44)
Hey, like we say here, a rejection is just redirection. Look at you now!
Speaker 2: (04:48)
Yeahhh or like, I don't know, look at me now. Hopefully they've heard my music and regret it. Um, but it wasn't in college that long anyway. So I guess it was a good move in the end, but yeah, that's the funnest fact I can think of. And I'm really exposing myself with that here. Uh, you're welcome for that vulnerability, but no, you know, what's funny.
Speaker 2: (05:12)
I tried out for, I'm pretty sure I tried out for acapella groups in my freshman year in college too. Made none of them. I was like what?
Speaker 3:
*laughs*
Speaker 1:
After pitch perfect, everybody wanted to be pitch perfect.
Speaker 2:
Literally! I was like: “I want to be glee. I want to be pitch perfect. I want to be everything.”
Speaker 1:
Yes!
Speaker 3:
Glee!
Speaker 1: (05:32)
No omg, when i was like late high school. I was convinced. I was like, “we need to start a glee club guys.” I can't, I can't carry a tune, but I was convinced it was like, “I'm going to.. come on!”
Speaker 3:
You’re like Will Schuster.
Speaker 1:
Omg I know. No, in my mind I was like, “I'm going to be Brittany.” I can't sing, but I can dance!
Speaker 3:
Oh!
Speaker 2: (05:53)
No. And that is so funny that we bring up the fact that, you know, you tried out for acapella groups. Cause I know that like, you know, glee was a big thing for you. And you know, like you, and like I know, Taylor swift doesn't do acapella, but Taylor swift is huge for you. Lorde is huge for you. Do you want to talk about a little bit how those inspirations, you know, really drive your music and your sound?
Speaker 3: (06:17)
Oh my goodness! Oh yeah. I love Taylor swift so much I could throw up. Um, basically, uh, yeah, so let's start with Taylor swift. Um, my first love ever. Uh, I remember so I don't have a lot of memories from being young, but I vividly remember like begging my mom to buy her debut. Uh, I don't know why I maybe it was like my soul being drawn to her already, but I just picked it up and I was like, mom, I need this, like now, because I never heard any of her music before. I don't think. So her debut singles were like ‘Our Song’ and’ Tim McGraw’ and all of that. And ‘Tim McGraw’'s like, when she like hit the charts, well, I like fell in love with her songwriting. And I mean, I was raised on, like I say, I wasn't really raised on anything. I was raised on popular music and a mix of like country music.
And so it was really cool to see, um, unfortunately country music is wack, but anyways, it was really cool to see a woman like independent woman that was like about my age. Cause when it released, I mean, I was like six, but she was like older than that. And so it was cool to see somebody young to see somebody that wrote their own music to see like somebody doing a country pop kind of like vibe. Um, and I feel like something about Taylor Swift was that she was so relatable to like young women, um, who were growing up in that age because all of the pop stars at that time were so much older than me, um, specifically. So I grew up with her, uh, and that was such a huge, uh, part of my relationship, first of all, with music, but also with songwriting.
Speaker 3: (07:52)
Um, I feel like an, an indisputable fact about Taylor swift is that she's the best songwriter of our generation. Um, and I can defend that with my life, but basically like, I don't know, it's just really inspiring the way that she can like weave a story in her melodic choices. And I think I really learned from that, um, from her and especially like going into the song writing that I want to do in the future, I definitely like she can write amazing pop music, but she can also like tell stories and her crossover from country music to pop music, to, you know, like folk music and all that stuff is so inspiring. And I definitely think that's why like, um, my debut EAP is really like genre lists and it's really John rhe bending because one of my favorite stars ever just did that and did it with ease and, you know, inspires all of us to kind of make whatever we want.
Speaker 3: (08:48)
And so I think that that's really cool. And I think I learned a lot from her as a person and her, uh, paving the way for like young women everywhere. And so I love her. I can't wait to meet her, we're manifesting that. Um, but yeah, and then as far as like glee, I, so a big part of my identity is that I'm in the LGBT community, uh, and growing up in a small town that was so hard and it was so hard to be accepting of myself and who I was, uh, whenever that wasn't the norm and it wasn't accepted and it was actively discouraged, um, by my family, by everybody around me. Um, you know, it's just really conservative there. And so I felt like there was not a really like great example of like that being okay. And so I feel like, like watching glee, growing up, like number one, I mean, I love the music and that's like, what drew me to this show in the first place. Um, cause they were doing like acapella covers or like pop songs or like popular songs. And I was like, “yes”. Um, and then it's just like so much representation of like different people in that show. And it's like, you're all minorities you're in.
Speaker 3: (10:00)
But like actually like, um, it was just really cool to see like people of color on the show, like seeing doing stuff cause like country music, it's like all, you know, like white people and that's like all that I grew up seeing, but like in Queens, like people of color and like LGBTQ people, like gay people, lesbian representation. And so I feel like it, it felt, it made me feel really safe. Um, and I feel like that was one of the first shows that like made me feel safe and then, so that's why I'm like, like for life, but, um, that's a huge, like I just love it so much. And then, I mean, Lord for one, but like melodrama, I feel like if I could, you know, have a Venn diagram of like Taylor swift and Lorde and like be in the middle with my songwriting and sound is like all that I would want to be.
Speaker 3: (10:43)
Um, Lorde, like Taylor swift can tell a story like none other, but with Lorde it's so like, and this is something that I value in my songwriting it's, it's a great way to describe a specific feeling and a specific instance. Um, and I feel like, you know, like she does that with a lot of her music, like “we'll end up painted on the road, run in chrome, broken glass on the road sparkling” to describe like a car crash. And for me, I said like, “spilling my guts all by myself, like you're here to see it”, like something very similar in a way describing a feeling that you wouldn't necessarily like use to describe that feeling. Um, and I think that Lorde is, is so good at like using this very abstract imagery to, to condense to something specific. Um, and that's like, I definitely learned from her and melodrama is like, I mean, so much of my debut ep was inspired by melodrama.
Speaker 3: (11:36)
And so much of my music for the rest of my life is going to be inspired by melodrama. Um, just because that was the music that defined my teenage years. And so, um, definitely living with it and seeing myself in it and being, um, captured by the story and the concepts, um, and like learning what a concept album was. And so like being inspired by that. Um, cause I feel like at that point in time, Taylor Swift hadn’t had a huge concept album. I mean, 1989 was out, but I feel like, um, for me melodrama was a lot more, um, relatable. And so, uh, yeah, so, so important to me, all those people are so important to me. Um, and I definitely think my song writing like marries the two like storytelling and like emotion type stuff that Lorde does. So, uh, yeah, I definitely think that that's the basis of like how I write now and the melodies that I create now. Um, so yeahQ
Speaker 1: (12:33)
No, yeah I love that. And I guess kind of on the topic of, obviously you're talking about all of these people and like who inspired you in your career and obviously, you know, growing up, you know, doing like your worship and just in general loving music, when did you kind of start taking that passion for music to the next level and knowing that you wanted to pursue music as more than just the hobby and actually want to be an artist yourself?
Speaker 3: (12:59)
Right. Um, I don't know. It's hard to answer. I don't know. Um, I was honestly really afraid, um, to admit, uh, what I wanted to do. And I feel like a lot of people in the industry are especially women. Um, because we're told that like you're supposed to fit into a certain mold of like a person or like you're, you're told young people, like you're told that you're supposed to do what you're good at to do what is gonna make you money to do what is going to make you as dependable. Um, and as a “functioning” member of society in terms of like today's standards. And I've always kinda been, I mean, out of place for one, because I'm LGBTQ on the people of color and a person of color in a predominantly white town. And I just had this like personality that like nobody really had, or so I was just kind of always at a place with my interests and my passions.
Speaker 3: (13:51)
And so I just kinda hid it for a long time. Um, and I honestly had so much, um, I struggled a lot with my mental health in high school. I struggled. Like, I feel like the more that you deny who you are and what you're meant to be and what you're gifted with, the more that it feels like you aren't, you don't belong where you, and like I used to say this thing, like in a light socket, you could put a fork in there and it fits, but it doesn't belong. And so I feel like that's very like similar, I know a metaphor that's like so abrasive, but that's like me. Um, I feel like that kind of like makes sense, like, just because you fit doesn't mean you belong. Um, and I kind of took that to heart. And so I, you know, was really afraid and I was good at school, so I got the scholarship to go to college and I was just kind of vibing hanging out and I just felt more and more like, uh, like pieces of myself where like slipping away.
Speaker 3: (14:47)
Um, the more that I like denied that and suppressed it. And so I woke up one day and I had that feeling or that epiphany, um, cause in, in college I was a religion major because of like my Christian background, psychology major, religion minor, I guess to say. And so I was in this religion course and similarly, like my teacher said, the longer that you deny what you are meant to be doing, it's, you know, you're like, I don't know. He said “the longer that you deny what you're meant to be doing, the more that you just kind of like are not giving that self to the world”. And it's like, uh, um, a travesty to like everybody around you, because they're not getting to experience like what you, what you were made to be doing. And I guess it's like everybody that you meet, like maybe they need that or something, you know?
Speaker 3: (15:34)
So I feel like do what you're meant to be doing or what you feel like you're meant to be doing. Um, because at the end of the day, like, you know, you were gifted that for a reason I believe. And so I just kind of had this moment and then I just didn't go back. *laughs* Like I was like, you know, I just, I know I'd been struggling that whole semester. I was like, I don't feel like I'm supposed to be here. I feel like I'm supposed to be doing something else, using my guests for something else. And I had that moment and I was like, “you know, I don't want to go back”. So I took a lot of time to kind of like, really think about what I wanted to do. And honestly, by pure chance and luck, and, uh, I don't know, I, I started working for this coffee shop and my barista lead was also a musician and we ended up writing ‘Break My Own Heart’ together.
Speaker 3: (16:21)
And we just kind of started my whole musical career by like the randomness of like me working in his cafe or like me being his barista. And so I feel like definitely right time, right place. And if I hadn't had that moment where I left, when I did, you know, I wouldn't have gotten the job when I did. And I wouldn't have like made the music when I did. And so I definitely feel like that's, I'm a huge proponent of like, listen to yourself, listen to your needs and just kind of like do whatever you feel is right. Um, because at the end of the day, like you're the only person that's going to lead you that way. Like you're the only person that can give you the feedback. Um, because you're the only person that like knows yourself the way that you do. And so, yeah, I feel like I just woke up and I decided, and I, here we are.
Speaker 1: (17:07)
I love that so much. I feel like you're, I feel like for a lot of people, especially in our age group and you know, who are all wanting to go into like different branches of like the industry or whatever it is that they're passionate about. I feel like it's such a common, it's such a common theme of feeling like you want to chase this, but society tells you, you shouldn't, or it's like, it's not easy, so I shouldn't do it. And it's just hearing that, you know, you just, you took the leap and you were like, you know what, I'm going to do this. And from doing that, you ended up writing your first song. That's, that's huge.
Speaker 3: (17:40)
Yeah. And it, it really is. Um, you just had to do what you want to do. And I feel like, especially in the music industry, it's really discouraging. If you don't come from a background in music. I know like, like as a musician, some girls grow up and they're like, parents like play jazz music while they're like, mom cooked dinner on the piano, l and they, and that's great. But for me, it's like, I am so afraid because I don't, I don't have that background. I don't have that. But that's also like what gives me the perspective and my like, tastes of music different from other people. And similarly to like people who want to pursue music, like you might not have that perspective, but you have something to offer the industry that like they don't, you know, so I feel like you really have to think about, think about it.
Speaker 3: (18:26)
And that's the hardest part definitely is taking the leap and deciding that you're going to stay true to yourself. But I feel like ultimately that's, um, the most important thing that you can do in life and your career is just staying true to, to what feels right in the moment. And I don't know, maybe in five years I'll be like, “this doesn't feel right for who I am anymore:, and it's okay to change. So, and like, it's okay to change your career to you. Like, I feel like I see that a lot in the industry, like people, um, they're doing something else and they're like, “oh, well, this is like what I've been doing, but I've had a change of heart. Like I've grown, I've decided that, you know, I want to like do this instead”. And that's totally okay. Like it's a long life.
Speaker 3: (19:01)
And so we get, we can like do and be whatever we want to be when it feels right in the moment. And so I feel like that's just kind of how I live my life. Um, and so I think my music will like change and grow with me. Um, and I think, like I said, Taylor has been great about that. Like, she didn't want to make country music for her whole life. So I think, you know, moving into like other genres and moving into like what I want to make in the future. Um, I definitely want to stay true to like how, how I'm feeling in the moment. And so I feel like it's always going to be really authentic. Um, and I'm not gonna try to make something just because I have before. Uh, so yeah *laughs* Not to get too deep there!
Speaker 2: (19:41)
Absolutely. Yeah, well no, and you’re 21. I mean, you're allowed to change your life. Uh, you know, when you think about it, you're so, so young. And I just want to point out that, you know, like through all of that, that is absolutely spectacular, but not only does Eraste create super, super cool, like un-genred music, but she's hilarious. I was on your Twitter yesterday and I saw this tweet from you.
And you said, it reminded me so much of my best friend, because I just love that kind of humor. And it, you said “be the reason why a couple has a fight today”. And I love that!
Speaker 1:
Omg! Well also follow her on Tik Tok, she's just hilarious. You are so funny.
Speaker 3:
*laughs* Like, “be the reason a couple fights today, *heart*” *laughs* Yeah, definitely. Well, thank you for appreciating, appreciating it for what, like heavily drenched sarcasm. Um, I definitely think it's something that takes a little bit of getting used to. Um, but yeah, thank, thank you for appreciating that, that a lot of my humor and a lot of my life is definitely like based out of like real life experiences. So like, I was the reason a couple of fought yesterday. So I tweeted it. I was like, you know what, be the reason like, a couple of fights today. And like, most of my Tik Toks like that is actually happened to me. Like, I feel like some artists thrive on like making up, but like, my life is so annoyingly. Like, like this just like randomly happens that like I write about it. And so usually if you hear something in my music, if I tweet something that seems like it's really funny, nine times out of 10, that actually happened to me so *laughs*. You just gotta laugh at life. You know what I mean *laughs.
Speaker 2: (21:35)
I just, your sense of humor is just so great and like so unique. And it's just, it cracks me up every time. And I was like, I don't know if this is real or not, but it's hilarious.
Speaker 1: (21:48)
Something that makes you, and some, like an artist that people can really gravitate towards is that, you know, we just had this massively deep conversation about, you know, where you come from and who you're inspired by and these, this music and these lyrics and all this. And like, you have so much insight on like that whole topic, but then, you know, you're still a normal person and you still, you still joke around and you still, you know, take everything with a grain of salt and you make things out of these experiences. And I think that that's what makes you so relatable.
Speaker 3: (22:21)
Yeah. Um, I would hope so. I really hope that, uh, cause I mean, I have, I've literally lived a lot of life. I've had a lot of heartache and I feel like that's not necessarily something you would think about when people think about me. I mean, I like to laugh. I like to have the attention, but I like to like, you know, just kind of like be as relatable as possible. And so I feel like it is really nice whenever I get to show my duality that like, yes, I'm so funny. And I, I mean, I like to think I'm so funny and I can like have these experiences and make people laugh, but also I want to be really like vulnerable about the experiences that I've had and the struggles that I've had because, um, I don't know. I feel like a lot of stars aren't or like you get one or the other where like you have a personality, but you, I don't know, you know, so I definitely want to be somebody who can be relatable to people.
Speaker 3: (23:11)
And I definitely think that's why like, um, I can relate a lot to like fangirls and young women and just like Gen Z humor because that's really what it is. It's just like Gen Z humor where like everything out of context is so hilarious. And so I, I try to, you know, showcase as much as my personality as possible. Cause I definitely think that's a highlight of like who I am as a person. Um, and the reason why I'm so funny, a lot of the times is because of heartache and trauma, I think, *laughs* uh, it's definitely relatable. So...
Speaker 2: (23:44)
Yeah, I was going to say some of the funniest people I know have had the most trauma and [inaudible],
Speaker 1: (23:51)
Yeah, it always ends up like that!
Speaker 3: (23:52)
*laughs* Yeah, it’s a big, it’s a big rip. But…
Speaker 2:
But it makes you who you are! Like you said.
Speaker 3:
Yeah! Once you have the lows and you can appreciate the highs, you can appreciate the humor and the easy going. And so it is really hard a lot of the time, but I definitely, you know, am gifted with humor since I was small and I had to, I'm the youngest of five, girl boss. Like I had to fight for my life in the group chat of my family every single day. I definitely had to learn how to be funny because, also, I was like the ugliest kid ever.
Speaker 1:
Oh my gosh stop!
Speaker 3:
*laughs* I don't know. You have to, like, you have to learn, you have to cope. Um, things. I'm glad they all think I'm funny because I try really hard. I love
Speaker 2: (24:36)
No, yeah exactly. No, I love it, I love it. And like, speaking of, you know, I know how you said, uh, that, you know, you got, you got a job as a barista and then you wrote, ‘Break My Own Heart’. Like, can you go into like a little bit more detail about like, you know, from the writing process all the way to release date, because I know that was your first single first time, you know, releasing, you know, so it had to be complicated or at least a bit confusing, you know, for a new musician.
Speaker 3: (25:01)
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Um, music is so random. It's so like hard and there's so many processes, but also I feel like there's a lot of gatekeeping in the community. So the more that I can explain, like how I did it and what worked for me and what didn't like, the more I can help new musicians. Cause I feel like it was very unnecessarily hard for me. And it could have been a lot easier if people would have been more open about the whole process. Um, so yeah, I am a very, like informal songwriter, and I've talked about this a lot, like usually I'll have a specific line or a specific melody and I'll write everything at once. Um, and it's, it's hard for me to like come back to something or like the idea. And I feel like, you know, some songwriters sit down and they like really like, they're like, “okay, I want to write about my relationship.
Speaker 3: (25:49)
This is what I should say. This is what I want to write about”. And I feel like it just comes to me all at once where I'm like having a day or I see something or I hear something and I'm like, this is, “this is it like, this is how I'm going to get this out”. And so, um, at that point I had been struggling a lot with like emotions about a past relationship. Um, and like, this is how it actually happened to me. Like I, um, I, you know, I am a very, I am a person that I, I avoid my emotions. I don't know if y'all know about the Enneagram, but I'm a seven, which is like trauma and funny. But like, we also run from our emotions and like, ha like Gemini, like Gemini. But anyways, I was running from my emotions for like two years, like the song says, and I was just kind of struggling with it because it was like summer and this like reminded me of this person.
Speaker 3: (26:34)
And I don't know, there was a lot of things like coming to an apex of like, I need to feel these feelings or I'm going to like scream. Um, so I was just like in my feels and uh, I actually have like physical letters that, uh, I mean, like whatever I love is forbidden and elicit. Like you always like write letters. Um, so I had these letters that I would like pass back and forth. Um, and I could write so many songs about this time in my life. Um, but I had them, like, I kept all of them and I would like revisit them and I would read them. And I was like right back where I was. And so I think, um, that day was like a special day or something like that, or it was just a random day. And I was like going through this, these letters.
Speaker 3: (27:20)
And I had like an old sweatshirt that I like had, and I didn't write all of this that day. Um, that's just kind of like what I'd been doing for like a month or something like reading newsletters, wearing that shirt, kind of feeling the vibes. And then one day I was driving home from not the coffee shop that I work at because I hadn't started working there yet. But like this one that I frequented often, um, and like my, I was like driving home in silence for some reason. Like I like never do. Um, but my blinker was on like turning right. And it was like going like a specific, like a BPM. And I just had the idea like, and I have the original voice memo, um, where I incorporated that into like something that I made, but basically in the original voice memo, I sing the whole chorus.
Speaker 3: (28:08)
“Sometimes I read old letters to let it hurt, sometimes you might catch me wearing your favorite shirt”. I don't even know the words. “And I know that I didn't want to tell you the truth, but sometimes I break my own heart just to feel close to you”. I wrote all of that in between the time that I had my blinker on to the time that I was turning, like, like in that light was red. Like I wrote all of that like at once. And I was like, what I was like, “where did that come from?” Um, so I just kinda like had the voice memo and I feel like I'd been like wanting to write for a while. And so then fast forward a little bit. And actually I lied, I was working at the cafe, but I wasn't really writing. So I, um, Good Guy Levi, who I co-wrote it with.
Speaker 3: (28:47)
I was like, “Hey, look, I have this idea for a song. I don't know where it's going. I don't know what it is. Can you help me?” Cause he had like already had a bunch of songs out and he had shown me showing me his music. Um, and so it ended up being something where like randomly, we worked really well together. We had already bonded over our like musical tastes. Um, and he kinda like helped me get, get that out because sometimes it's easy to write by yourself. But other times it's harder, um especially with, with an emotion that you don't exactly know what it is yet. Um, and so I feel like me as a person, I like to bounce my ideas off of people and I do best teaching something to somebody else. Like when I learned something and like teaching it to somebody else, it helps me learn the process better. And so I feel like, like talking through it with him, helped me learn the process better and like how to be a songwriter and how to write easier. Um, and so that song came together like so naturally like literally, like we hadn't done in like an hour or an hour and a half. Some songwriting sessions are eight hours and you get maybe half a song or top line, which is like a chorus, first verse and chorus. And that’s like a top line, what it’s considered. So anyways, so easy, so naturally, cause this is something he has experienced as well. And I know my favorite part the song I stole from Lorde like, “spilling my guts all by myself, like you’re here to see it”, like I had been reading those letters, wearing hat sweatshirt, you know, kind of screaming about how I felt and like, those emotions, like I was telling that person how how much i miss them, but I didn’t and couldn’t because, you know, you just don’t. That’s something I had to like live with. Um, and so i deintely I feel like, uh missing those people, and actually yeah it was written about an ex, but it was written about a couple of different people. And I think some of my music is about different people and relationships that I’ve had. I mean, in this instance, I was at odds with one of my family members, and I write about that a lot. Like in the song ‘Right Back Where You Want Me’, I didn’t speak to my parents for two years whenever I came out so in this instance, “Thought I saw you through that door, my stomach hit the floor” that was about somebody that looked like my parents. And so, I feel like a lot of people are like, “oh this is about an ex”, which is true it could be! But also, when you see these people, a lot of these relationships could like blend and you can write about it, and in a romantic setting. Um, so yeah it came together really naturally, and by chance I got to work with his producers and then we ended up writing the rest of the EP. And it was crazy, because at that point, like, I wrote it and then I lost my job, so then I had all this free time to work on this EP. It happened really fast and naturally. So I feel like one thing happens and it just leads to another thing, and it just kind of snowballs, and then it’s like, “Oh, now I’m winning a Grammy” *laughs* Um, but I feel like, um, it all happened really fast and and naturally, and I’m honestly so lucky cause I feel like you never meet people in the real world that can actually work with and actually vibe with, you always have to like go find them. But, honestly, Good Guy Levi was like an angel into my life, in the form of a barista. And you know, it was amazing, I have so much love for him. I come to him with ideas all the time and he sends me songs on his EP, and that’s a relationship that I love. Um, and I think I’ll have for my whole musical career. So yeah, that’s how it came together, really random, and like revisiting. Um, sometimes in songwriting you write it all at once, or sometimes you have one line, a good line, and you have to pull it out of you, it’s hard, like studying for the ACT, you’re like “why do I have to do this?” Like it feels like work. Um, but at the end of the day, you know, you come up with something really great. And so I feel like a lot of songs on the EP were written like that, like where we had a lot of work, but then something came out that was really good. And so, I definitely feel like what works for me the most is combining the two, like having the natural spark and energy and putting it away when I feel like I’m not doing it justice anymore, or I’m like being repetitive, or if I feel like I’m not feeling that anymore, or I’m not writing as good as I know that I can, I’ll put it away. And then I’ll revisit it another day when I know that I think I know more about what I want to say, or I’ve written in my journal and I’m like “okay, I can like put the pieces together now”. I’m doing that now with songs that I’m writing, demos that I’m writing. I write the beginning and then I put it away and I feel like that kind of takes the pressure off it being like, “okay, I have to finish this song in like an hour, four hours” or whatever in term makes me write better music. Um, so yeah I feel like ‘Break My Own Heart’ will always have a special place in my heart just because of how natural it was, and how DIY it was. Especially with like the visuals and stuff like that it was all made with so much love and so much, um, I don’t know, everybody appreciated it in the process. And I definitely think that with my music in the future, I want to write with and be produced by people who love the project as much as I do. And um yeah! So random, so crazy, but… here we are! *laughs*
Speaker 1 and 2:
Yes, I love that. [inaudible]
Speaker 1:
If you haven’t streamed that song, go stream it, it’s up everywhere.
Speaker 3:
*laughs* Yeah! Please stream Break My Own Heart. It’s really like, it kinda gets you. Some music is like a story, but this music is like captures a feeling of like hurt, and I was hurting, and you can definitely tell! Um, so if you want to feel something, go stream it! *laughs*
Speaker 2:
So much of that was so relatable to, I’m sure, all songwriters. I just know, I remember when there was that weird gap in my life, between 13-18 and I was actually trying to be a real musician. Obviously, I wasn’t that good.
Speaker 3:
You could still be! You could still decide!
Speaker 1:
Yeah! Hey, it’s like what we said, “if you want to change your career path, go ahead and do it!”
Speaker 3:
Yeah!
Speaker 2:
True, true, yes! But it was like, I remember writing songs and saying, that’s the best line ever written, and then I would lose it. I would have a stack full of one-liners, it’s so funny how a feeling hits you like that at a stop light. It’s weird, it’s really, really weird! I love that.
Speaker 3:
Well some people… I, I think I’m going to thrive off one liners, cause I was talking to Joanna about how I was famous on Tumblr for like [inaudible]
Speaker 1:
Omg!
Speaker 3:
*laughs* omg the Tuumblr days. I had a Tumblr, I was thriving on tumblr, that was my life! But I would write like six word stories, ten word stories. So you would condition yourself to have this one liner, and condense this so abstract broad emotions in like ten words. So I feel like something I thrive at in my music and in my writing is one liners, and so if you are somebody that writes like that, write it down and come back to it, because it is good. You just have to come up with extra stuff that can like support that. So yeah, I definitely feel like it’s a process, and some people write better than other people. And I definitely think as someone who writes their own music, and no shade to anybody who doesn’t, like pop stars that don’t. Cause some people are vocalists and some people just thrive on that, that’s like their gift. But if you want to write your own music, then it’s definitely important to figure out how you learn, how you write, learn, the process that works for you the best, because something that works best for me isnt ging to work for someone else. And I definitely think at the beginning of my career… “At the beginning of my career” [mockingly], when I made my EP, I put a lot of pressure on myself to get into the process that my producers were telling me worked “the best”, but after the fact I found out that I work better doing something else. And doing something that works for me, and listening to what I’m good at. So I definitely think if you have a stack of songs, figure out how you write best. Some people write best me, me, when… I need to lie on the floor, light a candle and cry, sometimes! And sometimes I write the best on my drive to work. I feel like definitely figuring out that… like it takes the pressure off too, that like “I’m gig to figure out what I do best, so it doesn’t feel like work”. But sometimes you do, you have to. I love to talk about this, especially for new musicians, being encouraging, because in the community, in music, there is a lot of gatekeeping, especially by producers so I want to be as open and helpful as possible because i had no idea, so I had thought the way I was taught is the only way, but it’s really not. Definitely keep that in mind, that you have so much freedom! And I think that I’ve embraced that, for my future projects, and what I’m writing now, like I have so much freedom to do whatever I want and that’s really encouraging to me.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I love that, and speaking of that, you keep bringing up your EP and how that is so special to you and the way… your songwriting and the way that you do everything. One song that always sticks out to me when i think about something that is so raw too, and you’re just being real and you’re writing about it is ‘Jealous’! I always think about it, it’s so relatable in such a simple way!
Speaker 3:
*laughs* Yeah… oh y’all want a country song, that is about jealousy, it is my humor, go stream ‘Jealous’. *laughs* I definitely think that showcases all of that, but yeah it’s an emotion that I’d never experienced before, but I know a lot of people get jealous and a lot of people experience this, but I never had, and so I was like, “Mmm, what is this?” And so I think writing about it and capturing it in the way that I did was so real, so real, so down to earth, and with country music you just have to go there and a lot of it is true. You know, just an example, “Are you still the topic of my poetry?”. My current partner’s ex is a poet, like a published poet! Like I’ll drive by her house, we live on the same block, one of her exes literally lives on the same street as me in my hometown, I grew up there. *laughs* So it’s like taking things that actually happened and putting them in a song that is relatable enough but it’s broad enough like, “Oh yeah I'm going to drive by her house and hit her with my car”, like you can relate to that even if you’re in a huge city or even if your ex lives like across the country, you can relate to that! Because you’re like, “Oh, I might, like, stop, but I won’t, but we’ll see!” But yeah, I love when people appreciate the complexity of that song, and how it is so simple but it’s also complex. And it’s so funny but it’s also thoughtful. That’s a song I think a lot of people sleep on because they’re like, “Oh, it’s country music”. But if you actually listen to it, it’s so funny and so fun, and I just love that song so much. So thank you for bringing that up. *laughs*
Speaker 1:
We love ‘Jealous’ on the Jaded team, we love it!
Speaker 3:
We love ‘Jealous” in this house!
Speaker 2:
Wait, I think this is so funny, because you said, ‘Jealous’ is broad, but you named all the girls, so is it even broad?
Speaker 3:
*laughs* Okay, okay!
Speaker 1:
No, that’s my favorite part! Anyone who hasn’t heard it, go listen to it right now! That’s my favorite part.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, it’s at like 2:44 or something like that *laughs*
Speaker 2:
Yeah, go into that a little bit!
Speaker 3:
Yeah! Okay, first of all, those are like broad names, first of all! But okay, so here’s how the process works whenever you record a song you do the the main vocals, all the harmonies, and all that stuff in one pass, and then you record the ad libs, and add libs are the fun stuff you hear in the music that’s just like the extra, or the random, or it’s just kind of all that “Oooos” and like the sparkles on top to make it fun and sparkly. So with this song, like the laughs and giggles and the end when I’m like “Bow-bow”, all of that was real, I didn’t plan it. So I think whenever you’re doing ad libs, the best thing to keep in mind is: have fun. ANd a good thing about this, in like ‘WYGTDWM’, all of those were ad libs like, “Hear those people talkin’ sh** man?” Like ad libs. And so I think, keeping that in mind, I was recording ad libs, just having a good time, and that was kind of like the dead space of the song cause it’s just like the extra stuff. And I just listened them off, “Their names are Dina and Christy,” and then I forgot the other one and I was like, “Tori! Oh God, Tori!” I didn;t have that like written on my hand like, “I’m going to say this and this is going to be so funny”. I said it and then I forgot it, y’all know how much personality I have, how funny I can be, how… silly goose I can be! *laughs* And so I just thought it was funny, my producers were laughing and we were just having a good time. And then I get the version back, and I listened to it and I was like, “Oh sh**! OMG!” I had no idea they were gonna put that in there. So I showed my partner and was like, “Hey… um there’s a little surprise in there for you!” *laughs* And I was like, “You can tell me how you feel, but I think I’m going to leave that in there so you really don’t have a choice!” *laughs* And definitely, um, they approached me about it. And I’m honest, like if I write a song about somebody I’ll text them and be like, “Hey, I wrote a song about you”, you might get some attention. Just letting you know”. Cause I hate to be blind sided, so it was definitely an awkward conversation, but in all good fun, I sure hope. But yeah, yeah, I don’t even what remember the original question was but I think it’s important to have fun in the ad libs to give that energy to the song. I didn’t know it was gonna make it to the final version. So I guess I could have stopped it, but at that point I was like, “Y’know, this belongs here now”. Like in a lot of Taylor Swift songs,like in ‘Dear John’, she says their names, puts their name in it, she goes there! And I feel like that’s so important if I wanted to be authentic to what I was experiencing, yeah I need to go there, and... so I did!
Speaker 1:
On the topic of that, Jade didn’t know that ‘Style’ was written about Harry Styles. The name is called ‘Style’!
Speaker 2:
You know what-
Speaker 3:
*laughs*
Speaker 2:
I just didn’t… Dots weren’t connected, I didn’t care about One Direction, I didn’t care about Taylor Swift, I didn’t care about anything except [inaudible]...
Speaker 3:
Take that back! Well-
Speaker 2:
I didn’t know!
Speaker 3:
We’re coaching you on all things Taylor Swift, especially me. Like… You need to love her!
Speaker 2:
No, between you and Joanna, I know so much about Taylor Swift and 1D now.
Speaker 3:
*laughs* You’re welcome!
Speaker 1:
Yes, I love influencing you.
Speaker 2:
I’m like hearing all the facts, like, “Wow… What?” *laughs*
Speaker 1 and 3:
*laughs*
Speaker 2:
We were talking about Taylor Swift the other day and Joanna was like, I was like, “I love 1989 and Clean y’know,” and she was like, “You know ‘Style’, yeah that’s like Harry Styles”. And I was like, “What?!” *laughs*
Speaker 3:
*laughs* “What?!” Yeah, Taylor Swift is the queen of writing something specific but making it broad enough to be relatable too. And that’s what i do, I write it specifically, but I make it broad enough, and I try to hone that in. And especially with my newer songs, I definitely think that I’m like doing it a lot better than I have, or like, the best that I’ve ever done. So I’m so excited for people to hear it, but yeah, you need to learn about Taylor Swift history, because there’s so much that it’ll blow your mind.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it’s crazy, I love it, I love it.
Speaker 1:
So, I guess the last question having to do with the EP, since you just mentioned your new music and everything, but the last question on the EP. We talked a lot about how this EP, the lyricism and everything is very real, raw for you. So a word that I would use to describe it would probably be “real”, because this is like, this is real sh** you’re writing about real things that you’re experiencing. So what is one word that you would use to describe it?
Speaker 3:
Right! Yeah. I think one word I would use to describe it is... “multifaceted”, a better word is “adventurous”. I think I pushed myself a lot in this EP, and I love that it’s real. Like every song is written from something that actually happened, something that I wrote, like I was in the room, did all the stuff, and I wanted to make pop music! And something I was concerned about with the EP is that as a young woman in the industry, as somebody who wants to make it, as somebody who wants to be a pop star, who wants to have influence over my own music making her own music, and somebody that really inspired me is Halsey, and their journey and their music and how they approached it. Somebody told me that, “Your EP should show everything that you could do, so that in the future you can make whatever”. I keep going back to Taylor Swift, or Lorde, Billie Eilish, if you make a specific style of music in the beginning it’s really hard to break out from that because women get pigeonholed so much more than men do, and that pisses me the f*** off, because men can like do whatever, and it’s like, “Oh, how fun”. But if Taylor Swift makes pop music, she gets kicked out of the country music association, like f*** off, literally. And so anyways, I really wanted to do whatever I wanted. One, so I can be as marketable as possible because I want to get signed, that’s a goal of mine, but two, I didn’t want to get pigeonholed, because, somebody like me, somebody who has some many interests in pop music, so many genres coming together, and so much like… different things that I can write about. I didn’t want to be a girl that made one thing and that’s how I am put for the rest of entire career. So I definitely had to be smart about it and approach it in a smart way, but I also think in the process of that I lost a lot of the realness along the way. So it does mean a lot when someone says, “Oh, it’s so real, it’s so honest,” and it is! It really is. But I think with my future music I want to keep in mind that I can make whatever I want, and I can be as real as I want, and y’know I don’t wanna make music for the sake of having a country song out, even though it was fitting for the time being. I think in the future I really want to come home to who I am in the electro pop kind of world, because it feels a lot more authentic to me, but, again, an EP, it’s the time to explore, it’s the time to it’s a time to figure out what you like and your style. Because without the EP, I wouldn’t know what felt like home to me, but now I do. So one thing I kept saying was, “I want my listeners to get whiplash from track to track,” I definitely think somebody like me, who is so all over the place in a lot of the things that I do, it’s very fitting for my personality. And I’m really glad I could make something that people could get that vibe from me, so that now I can make whatever I want! So people know everything that I do, and I can reach a lot of people, and I can connect with as many people as possible that love my music. Because, whenever you’re making whatever you want, it’s all connected, because it comes from you. And that’s something that I kept in mind, and something that I learned from a book called How to Steal Like An Artist, so definitely go read it. But it’s like, you can make it whatever you want, and it’s going to be similar to your other work, because it comes from you and your unique perspective. So, I was all over the place, and that’s what I love about it and I think that’s the allure to it. So I’m glad that you said “real”, because it definitely is real and it’s adventurous and I think that’s what makes it really special *sniffles*.
Speaker 2:
I like that a lot, that is so nice, that’s brilliant. Cause it’s your perspective, I’ve never heard it that way, like you know what I mean, like the same artist’s sometimes going to sound the same because it’s the same perspective, but I get that, yeah. So, on the topic of women being pigeonholed, Joanna and I had an entire conversation about this. Like, women aren’t allowed to switch up or do anything without it being lile, “Go back to what you were doing before”. But other people can do it.
Speaker 3:
Right! Yeah!
Speaker 2:
But anyways, that’s a separate conversation *laiughs* So anyways… ‘favorite secret’’s out today! WHich is insane!
Speaker 3:
OMG!
Speaker 2:
Y’know guys, we’re filming this on the second, but let’s pretend like it’s the thirteenth for right now, and ‘favorite secret’ it out today and so like who did the photoshoot? So the photoshoot, for people who don’t know about it, is pictures of Eraste with a bucket hat, and it’s red! OMG it’s like so good, it’s like Lorde-esque. Somebody described it, our head of marketing described it to me as “Lorde-esque” and I was like, “That is exactly what she’s going for, she loves Lorde!”
Speaker 3:
Yeah!
Speaker 2:
But so like, who did the photoshoot? Where can people listen? How can fans promote it? Tell us all about ‘favorite secret’!
Speaker 3:
Yeah! So, ‘favorite secret’, another thing that kinda just came together, and speaking of Lorde, I feel like a lot of my visuals, like things that I like to do visually comes from Melodrama, so I definitely think for the rest of my career it’s going to be lights and kind of like “moody”, and stuff like that. I mean Lorde has that thing where you can see colors whenever you listen to music, I try to say the word and I couldn't, and I feel like I have similar vibes, so this song felt really red to me. And I definitely wanted to transition out of the Crashing Every Party phase into something like that. And I had never done a studio shoot, it kind of just happened, because I did it with Crowd Surfer Magazine.The girl that took my pictures, her name is Gabby, she just photographed at Lollapalooza, right, she’s phenomenal and brilliant. And so it kind of just happened. They got in contact with us about doing a shoot for their magazine, and I was like, “Hey, like, this is perfect, I kind of want to release it”. And one of my usician friends, I was talking about the EP and I was like, “Man, I feel like ‘forbidden love’ didn’t get enough attention!”
Speaker 1:
Period!
Speaker 3:
I really like that song, I think it’s so amazing. I think it fits my perspective perfectly, like that actually happened to me. And I feel like it’s really hard to get people to pay attention to the last track of an album, of an EP. So I was like, because his favorite track is ‘forbidden love’, his name is Jackson, he’s an Austin based artist as well. We were just getting dinner at like a Mexican restaurant, and we were just chattin’ it up, and he was talking about how much he loved ‘forbidden love’, and I was like, “You know I-I want more people to hear it! Actually, I need to play you this version that I have,” that’s how it was written, how it was originally written, how it was intended to be, and it got changed along the way because I didn’t have a song on my EP that sounded like that. Like I said, with my EP I pushed myself to be adventurous, and I thought ‘forbidden love’ should take this direction, because the original version kind of lived in this space with like ‘WTGTDWM?’ and ‘Crashing Every Party’, and I was like, “NO, I want to do something else”. But I feel like the song could definitely stand on its own and be a single release, so I texted Jade that night and was like, “Hey, I think I want to release this”. It was so random, and so just, like, y’know, I just decided to, so we’re just gonna, kind of thing! And like I said, that’s just kind of how I live my life. So I had the original one, I got it mastered, it was made by the same people I made my EP with. So I got it mastered by the same guy that I went to that I found on Fibre, that does an amazing job *laughs* I don’t know who he is, personally, but you never need to with stuff like that. So I got it mastered, because we just had this like silly demo, and I wanted it to have it’s own release because I feel like the song needs to get it’s own attention. So I came to Gabby with the idea like, “Y’know I kind of want to do something with red and orange,” cause I uploaded ‘favorite secret’ to SoundCloud, cause that’s how you get a private link, because I wanted to one of my friends to listen to it like, “Should I release this, should I not release this?”. And the picture I put on it was the same vibes except it was Taylor Swift, and that’s just something I had on my phone, because I had like her picture for something amd we like use it for playlist covers and stuff like that, and I was like, “Oh, this fits”. Then I was like, “Wait, I actually really want to do a photoshoot like this!” So we shot it in Gabby’s apartment, and the backdrop is literally like construction paper, and she’s just phenomenal! She just used some colorful, like jelly-type things, and she’s literally like in her kitchen and her roommate was making like food like right next to her *laughs*, and it’s just so cool how somebodywho;s that talented can take this setting, and one light, one camera, construction paper, and make it look so professional, so amazing. So I got honestly really lucky to have her be mutuals for that, and just had fun and did it, so I’m definitely going to be doing something with Crowdsurfer in the future, but it was just amazing and any Austin based artist, use her, cause she is so great. So yeah, I wanted to do ‘forbidden love’ justice, and so we just came out with ‘favorite secret’ , and I think it’s so amazing for people to hear the first version and how it was written and the final version, and just appreciate it for what it is, because singles get more attention than albums, that’s just how pop music is now, so I’m so excited for people to hear it and love it and go share it, it’s on all streaming platforms! You can go share it, share it on your stories, go tell your friends about it, it's a bop! Make a Tiktok dance, maybe I’ll come up with one? I don’t know… And it’s just so, so fun and in pop music, and that’s definitely where I live, so yeah! Please go listen! *laughs*.
Speaker 1:
Yes!
Speaker 2:
And you took over the Crowdsurfer Instagram yesterday, so go check that out as well.
Speaker 3:
Yeah! Yeah, I did.
Speaker 2:
They're so amazing.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, they’re amazing, go give them all the attention. It’s really great, and I’m excited for you guys to hear it.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, so… sweet! What can we expect from Eraste in the future?
Speaker 3:
I don’t know, I feel like I’m in the beginning stages of figuring out what I want to do, and it’s kind of hard now that I have a “career” and I have to plan my releases ahead of time. Because like I said, I just decide that, so with the next song that I’m releasing, cause I think we’re pretty set on doing another single release, and releasing more singles for a while. At least that’s what I want to do, I don’t want to do another body of work for a while, so the next single that I have, and that I have almost ready is coming out… I don’t know I’m not going to put a date because I have no idea, but it definitely feels like home to me, it’s electro pop, Badlands, Halsey, Melodrama, Fletcher, darkpop, it’s all those things combined. And that’s what I love about it, it feels so so real. I feel like if I could tell one thing for this EP, and I think we’re gonna talk again before that comes out, for the single is: it’s the most me that I’ve ever been. And that’s the kind of music that I’m making right now, and te music I’m writing and performing, it’s the most me that I've ever been. The most honest and real and true to the things that I like to listen to, so like I listen to Badlands like everyday. *laughs* Like I never not listen to it, or like listen to Halsey, she’s like ten percent of my music, she’s my top artist of all time. So I think it’s going to be really cool writing about it like that, and so I think in the future that’s what I'm moving towards, and it’s going to feel really natural. And I’m excited to make music in that realm because it’s the sh** that I love to hear, so hopefully more people will love it too.
Speaker 1:
Yeah! I love that, and I’m equally, if not more, excited for the future for you because even though you’re so like “new to the game” or whatever, I feel like the perspective you have on your career, and artists that you’re influenced by, and where you want to go, and how you want to go about it is so unique and you just have a really cool perspective ont it. So I’m just excited to see where that takes you and how you’re going to be able to create your next body of work, when you do, y’know?
Speaker 3:
Right, yeah! I need to fill that 2014-Tumblr-culture-sized hole in music right now *laughs*
Speaker 1:
Yes!
Speaker 3:
So that’s like what I’m going for, very like ‘Right Back Where You Want Me’, ‘Break My Own Heart’-type beat. So thank you, I appreciate you saying that, because I definitely think… something that a lot of my musician friends remind me of is that people tell me of is that, “Your crowd is our there, you just need to find them”, and so I am looking for my crowd now! Where are you besites?! Come out! *laughs*
Speaker 1:
*laughs* Don’t be shy!
Speaker 3:
Don’t be shy! Come out! *laughs* So I think, definitely this is what I want to be, and it gets me so excited and makes me feel so alive. So making this song did not feel like a chore once, and making my EP, sometimes it did feel like a chore, I will admit, sometimes going out of my comfort zone to make something like that, it does make me uncomfortable.and something like this, it feels so natural and it never has once felt like, “I don’t want to listen to it, I’m avoiding it, i don't want to do the vocals”, because yeah, sometimes it’s work, but it all felt fun and purposeful, and… really intentional. I feel like a lot of people describe me as intentional. So I feel like this feels so intentional, and I love it, and I got out a lot of emotions, like ‘Break My Own Heart’ part two. So yeah, I can’t wait to talk about that more with you guys, so moving towards that, and just moving towards what feels exciting, and makes you feel alive so that’s-that’s what I’m hoping for.
Speaker 2:
You heard it here first: more Eraste music in 2021!
Speaker 3:
Well… I won’t… we have a single for sure! But I wouldn’t go as far to say more music than that! *laughs*
Speaker 1:
*laughs* We’ll see, we’ll see! Take it day by day.
Speaker 3:
Like I can guarantee one single, but other than that…
Speaker 2:
Yeah! Yeah, yes. Well, either way, you guys can check out the Jaded Productions street team,a dn if you join that, you’ll get exclusive access to Eraste’s Snapchat, which she posts on almost every single day. Inside the life of an independent musician, which is super cool.
Speaker 3:
Yeah! Join the Jaded street team, like we said, I thrive on humor and sh** posting, so if you join my Snapchat you get an inside look at my creative process, stuff I think are hilarious, or storytimes, and just stuff like that that lets you see how I make music and how I live, so definitely join that, cause I would love to have you! And I think it’s going to be really good, we’re coming up on like the most exciting time to be at Jaded, to be making music, to be releasing music, and yeah I can’t wait! So I’m really excited.
Speaker 2:
New era.
Speaker 3:
Yes! New era! Let’s go! Finally, those balloon pictures were going to haunt me the rest of my future career. *laughs* {inaudible]
Speaker 1:
You should definitely shout out your socials, where can people find you, and follow you on your journey?
Speaker 3:
Yeah, so trademark pending, but @eraste! On Tiktok, I’m @eraste, no hyphen or anything, on Instagram I’m @eraste__, on Twitter I’m @__eraste! We’re trying to get that all in order guys, but basically just @eraste and I’m sure you can find me. I have Twitter, Instagram, um, Facebook, like me on Facebook. *laughs* And then Tiktok, which is where I get the most interaction, I would say Tiktok and Instagram for sure. And then yeah, if you join the Jaded team, you get exclusive access to my Snapchat. And we’re going to do a lot a lot of fun stuff through the Snapchat and with the Jaded team for my future releases, so yeah find me anywhere you listen to music, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, Tidal, all that fun stuff, YouTube, love it. And yeah, I think that’s it! Am I missing any socials, am I missing anything else?
Speaker 2:
None except for the fact that, yes, you have a lot of Instagram and Tiktok viewers, but guys, she’s funniest on her Twitter!
Speaker 3:
*laughs* Oh yeah, don’t sleep on my Twitter, cause I feel like have reckless abandonment with my Twitter, and it’s not as many followers as I do on Tiktok and Instagram, so I just post stupid stuff, because, like, I can! I really shouldn’t, but you know Twitter, you know how it is. If you want those vibes then definitely Twitter first. I tweet the most so, there you know.
Speaker 1:
We love to see it.
Speaker 2:
Awesome! So yeah, that was Eraste everyone, ‘favorite secret’ is out right now, so go stream it.
Speaker 3:
Go stream it!
Speaker 2:
Go follow her! Yes, so this has been another episode of A Little Jaded.
Transcription By: Mai Vo & Joanna Serrano
Edited By: Joanna Serrano