What is the inspiration behind your music?
Subhodip: I simply cannot resist a good theme or story that leaves me compelled to listen further and stir my thoughts. Sure, poetry and oration can do that too but there is nothing like a groove, melodic hook or a deep rhyme that leaves an emotional footprint in your heart. It’s bringing out that thrilling and immersive experience that fuels me to be creative and write my own music.
Some of my songs are derived from personal experiences, which others often relate to, like love, anger, achievement, failure and passion. Like “Beyond a Doubt”, “Fresh Air” or “Strangers After All”. The others, which are more experimental, delve in some new concepts. Like lovers separated by space galaxies and time, a depressed alcoholic in a dystopian wild west or a man accepting death as a friend, like “Serenity”, “Indifferent” or “Andromeda”.
Jessalin: I would say it is the small things I encounter in life that remind me of a past experience, or make me wonder (& wander) deeper into thought, coming up with all the “what-ifs” and “could have beens”. Basically, something that inspires me to write a story. I see music as an extension of one’s feelings and thoughts, a platform to voice not only feelings but opinions on social issues and make a stand for what matters. It is something that connects everybody who listens. I hope to create songs that are relatable, such that everyone who listens to my music will be reminded that they’re not alone wherever they are, regardless of how they may feel.
Some singer-songwriters I look up to are Taylor Swift, Grace Vanderwaal, and Singapore’s very own Benjamin Kheng and lewloh (previously known as LEW). I’m highly intrigued and impressed by their lyrics, it’s mad how they string together words I never thought could be beside each other and yet come out beautifully. I love their unique melodies as well, especially for lewloh. It’s crazy how he is able to come up with so many different acoustic songs on his guitar, and I particularly love his tone.
