MTV News: You mentioned you were working on the music video during quarantine. What other ways have you been staying creative while being isolated? Miller: Honestly, I wish I could say that I was doing something consistently to stay in touch with my creativity, but I really haven't. I feel that this has been the least inspiring year that I've ever been alive.
I obviously could sit here with my keyboards and I could write something, which I have done a few times. I'm trying to learn Ableton, which is a production program I've been trying to get better at that so maybe one day I can produce my songs. Ultimately, the only thing that I'm able to really write about lately is just my sadness about the pandemic, about missing my friends, about everything being shitty, and the environment falling apart, and our political situation being so awful.
It's not anything that everybody isn't already stressed about. As artists it's our responsibility to point out uncomfortable things and situations that are not ideal. But at the same time, it's also our responsibility to help people get through that. I have been writing a little bit by myself. I've more been journaling lately than anything else. It freaks me out to be a creative person my whole life and suddenly not having anything to create.
I've been able to make videos and things along the way throughout this, and other little photo shoots and things like that. But music has been hard for me to write lately.
MTV News: I appreciate that honesty and can definitely relate. Knowing your EP is going to come out right before Halloween, I wondered if you had any favorite Halloween costumes you've worn in the past. Miller: Halloween is my favorite day of the year. I have a lot of decorations in my apartment. If I can't go to a haunted house this year, I'm going to make my apartment a haunted house. When I was younger, I wanted to be something from Alice in Wonderland , but I didn't know which character I wanted to be, so I was all of the main characters.
I had Queen-of-Hearts-like shoes with little red hearts all over them. I had a giant clock on my neck for the rabbit. Oh, and I had a Cheshire cat smile that my mom painted on me. It was a lot. Last year, I did not really kill the Halloween game because I was on tour and I didn't have time to put together a whole costume.
I went to the store and bought an inflatable poop emoji; I was literally a giant, inflatable poop. But that actually was a big hit. I went to a Halloween parade with my mom in New York City; that was where our tour stopped. Have you ever been to the Halloween Dog Parade? Miller: This year, Ollie and I are going to be an alien and a spaceship. I got him a spaceship costume and I'm going to be an alien.
We'll be really cute. But I didn't know there was a dog parade. That sounds so fun. That's two of my favorite things coming together, dogs and Halloween. Miller: I haven't said this anywhere yet; but I am planning on releasing a little music video for each one of the songs on my EP.
We tried to find light in darkness as much as we could. So we kind of put our heads together and we made small videos for each of the songs on the EP. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Aplicaciones y plugins. Desktop Google Chrome Windows 8. Plugin W. Media Player Winamp. Editar playlist. Cancelar Borrar. Cancelar Salir sin guardar. Now 21, with a solid 8 years of music under her belt, Miller is nourishing us with a new side.
The project is more slowed-down, stripped-back, and bare-faced than her previous discography. After conversing with Bea over Zoom, I found she is relatable in not just music, but in nature, too. She emerges on my screen, bleary-eyed, after sleeping in and making coffee, for an interview that morphs into a therapy session about our lives, self-truths, connections with her wonderful fans, and growing old. I feel immensely stressed before I release music, and I question it up to the day of release sometimes.
I feel relieved. Why take this direction for the EP? Honestly, I felt claustrophobic singing my own music before then. My label did not believe that I was capable of doing that, and you know, they may have been right, but I would have liked to try. On my second album, I had never written anything before, so it was almost practice. I was very honest and truthful, but I definitely kept a level of secrecy — where I was telling my own stories, but not giving specific enough details for anybody else to pick up on what I was talking about.
I felt like I could tell them anything, and they supported that. They never tried to shoot down my ideas in that way, and they were always very supportive of what I wanted to communicate.
I felt like it was time to say something that made me feel like I was actually speaking from the deepest depths of myself — to everyone.
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