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What does the name “Odd One Out” represent to you as an artist?
Throughout my whole life, I have always felt like the odd one out. At home, at school, everywhere. Whenever there’s a group of people, I’m usually the one that doesn’t fit in. But I always found comfort in music, and being a fan of bands and going to gigs, I finally felt like I belonged. This is why music has become such a big part of my life.
This is one of the reasons I called myself Odd One Out, another reason is that in the music industry, you have to stand out, so it’s good to go against the grain and not conform or be a sheep. It’s a double entendre I suppose.
Congratulations on the completion and release of your new EP, entitled “Alone”; tell us about your creative process for the development of the five songs, especially the one in Korean.
Thank you very much! I have thousands of notes on my phone, most of them are poems or just sentences which I put into my phone when I feel the need to. When I begin a new EP, I think of what I want the theme to be, then I will search for that word in my notes and gather all of the notes that mention the theme.
For the EP ‘Alone’ I had about 14 notes to begin with and whittled them down to 5 songs which represent the different ways someone can feel alone. Alone in the way they think, alone physically, alone because nobody seems to want them, but the ending song “Always With You” repeats “I am not alone.” This conclusion to the EP emphasises that nobody is ever truly alone.
The Korean song 여기서 밤새 (Here All Night) was originally written in English and is about how I spend most nights alone, staring at the clock and waiting for it to be morning again. I have been learning Korean since I became a fan of the K-Pop band BTS in 2020. So I translated the song into Korean and moved a few bits around so it rhymed when sung in Korean. I am really proud of this one.
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