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It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.
Yukimi Nagano
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Yukimi Nagano
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 31
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Now you know you're going to have to play music for the label, you know you're going to have to get an opinion from the manager. Now, I'm so much more conscious and it bothers me. I try to find my way back to writing without being too analytical or not thinking about whether this is good or is it bad.
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If you're just starting off as an artist, steal as much inspiration from everything you like, as much as you can. Take from books, from poets, from musicians. Just steal stuff from all over the place and then mix it up to make something of your own.
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It's weird with making music - you can have no vibe while you're working on something and recognize that the music was special afterwards. And it happens to me while I am working on my own music, as well! One minute you hate it, and then a few years you're obsessed with a little beat you did, and the opposite.
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Keep at something even when you don't feel inspired. Don't wait for inspiration! I write a lot of songs that are terrible, in the hopes that one song that has something special comes out of it. Just stay at something, and write every day if you're writing lyrics.
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One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.
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I really like our studio. It's definitely not in any way slick it's very homemade, literally. Everyone has their own room to produce and write, and [there's a] big rehearsal space.
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I think most people get hit by the music first and you can be singing along and realize a song has this melancholy feel. As Swedes, I think we see a beauty in melancholy. You're heartbroken, you're looking out the window and you feel really at ease in the pain. I have so many memories as a teenager with music, sad music, but I was just so into it.
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You want inspiration to come in a natural way and let it happen when it's going to happen. The last thing you want is this ghost looming over you saying it has to be good - remember that feeling of loving what you do, and don't let the business aspect murder that. It takes away the creativity for me.
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I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.
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What does success look like for you? Maybe your definition of success is too different from what the label defines as success. Perhaps your definition of success is simply being able to live off your art for the rest of your days. Don't get caught up in this crazy business. I'd say that's one of the most important things.
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I think most people are many-sided you have your evil side, your happy side, your spaced-out side. You try to stay on the positive side more - I mean, I try to - but I think we all have those different faces of ourselves.
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My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.
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To foster creativity, I think a little pressure can be good, but stress isn't good. Knowing that you have a defined window of time and you're going to dedicate your attention to it is a positive - but you can't think of it as needing a track that's going to change your life.
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I never listen to any of my music after it comes out, unless I hear it in a cafe or whatever. I'll think, I forgot how it was so slow or how minimal it felt compared to how it's become live, because you start having a relationship to the songs live. After an album is finished, I really let go.
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Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, Hi, can I help you? - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know.
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For us, as artists, our goal isn't to forever try to play at the biggest venue ever. Our goal is to make music and keep pushing ourselves creatively, whether it gets attention or not. If we get to do that without being broke? That's our goal. And that may not mean that's going to result in us playing the biggest venue in the world.
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I feel like there are a lot of artists that you could put together that you love, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to make amazing music. Giving an artist a great theme to write about doesn't mean the song's going to be good.
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A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.
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It can be tricky with branding these days, because everything is kind of branded.
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On stage, that for me is a space I really love to be in. It's a time to really get drawn into the music and the moment with my friends. It's the best reminder of the reason why we're doing what we're doing.
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