This is a interview with Bella JAM PACKED FULL OF INFO AND EVERYTHING. IT WILL GET DEEP, SO GRAB A TISSUE. I don't know why I put all of that in caps. I was just supposed to do JAM PACKED but who cares. Let's begin.
First off, congratulations on your FOURTH record!
Thank you! You know, it really feels amazing to be so supported all along this journey I've been on for a couple months longer than a year now. How I have made it staid far is courtesy to all those who cared and stuck around for me!
What would you say personally is the best thing that came out of Of The Seas?
Love. This is such a powerful record. All of the other records have strength, beauty, and honesty. But Of The Seas brings a whole new thing to the table - faith. It's the most different record so far because I feel like I started digging in one place for the past three records, and as amazing as The Horror was, it made me realized I had to fill that hole in and dig in a completely new place. And that took a lot of time too. To find my new direction and just all of it. There's a person who truly has inspired everything from the end of Of The Seas and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. It's a brilliant record.
You say you've started digging in a completely different place. Will the things you do from now on be in that same place?
You know each record has a VERY different story for each one but I took it all from the same place in my heart. With in The Horror, that finally ran dry and I realized I couldn't dig there anymore and I wasn't sure if I would be able to dig at all anymore, really. It took a good 3 months to figure things out and move on and start over. But now that I'm here, I know that I need to change my point of view each time I go into a new project. I need to remind myself of The Horror. I hope to do even better each time.
Give us a song and the story behind it.
Armed. The song Armed is about a very special person in my life. It's the first song I've written about him and little did he know until I finished the record, that he helped me write it, in a way. I have the lyric "Always will they grow stronger, never will they fall weak" which was something that he had said about us one time that I changed very slightly into lyrics. It's essentially a story how armed with strenth and love I am with him. How so very perfect he is.
What specific albums were you listening to for Of The Seas inspiration?
Definitely far too many to mention but a bunch are... Kid A, Tourist History, Mylo Xyloto, Siberia, Wasting Light, and a bunch of Copeland.
See you next time with, Bella Merryweather!
