12/1/2023 0 Comments Hana vu interview jay som![]() ![]() But there would be moments in between while playing where there would be no words, and I would just feel so uncomfortable performing. ![]() Those are kind of my hallmark artists, but in terms of lyrically and songwriting, I feel like being in the DIY scene kind of influenced me in some way because I would play shows when I was a teenager and only jam to rock songs. VU: Sonically, while making the album, I listened to Sufjan Stevens, St. So I'm curious about the overall influences because no matter which way you turn on the record, it’s undeniably vulnerable. Each song you take us through, it's almost telling another chapter of a novel that you're reading to us. LUNA: That’s interesting because I feel like the release of Public Storage leans heavily on the singer-songwriter aspect. I also don't even think that I have some sort of deep, distinct sound because I'm not very much a player, I correlate myself as more of a singer-songwriter, so I think that maybe it lends itself to me kind of doing a lot of different things that I actually like. And so, I was really influenced by that because I wanted to be a part of the DIY scene, and that was the kind of music that we would listen to when I was a teen. Because when I was playing shows, as you may know, that sound was what everyone was doing. VU: Those genres were always in the culture, and it’s definitely a part of my musical lexicon. Do you think being a part of that world helped shape your tone and the way you move through the industry itself? ![]() You quickly rose to prominence in the indie-DIY community before anything, and back then, it was heavily dominated by this punk, surf-rock sound. LUNA: I would love to take it back to when I first saw you in the local LA years ago. We had the chance to chat about the highly anticipated November release of Public Storage, the essence of baggage while cleaning out the old, and the humble beginnings of starting in the LA DIY scene, only allowing her to nourish herself as an independent artist even further. With her tonality fluttering through new-wave, grunge-rock to the emotional intensity of bedroom pop, it’s hard to deny Vu’s versatile aptitude, which makes the record so undeniably gut-wrenching to begin with.Īs both of us were barely waking up, shrugging out of bed with hardly any time to dress, Vu chatted with me in her room via Zoom, with a sunny glare over the camera you only get while living in Los Angeles or Highland Park, more specifically. Similarly, when you might pick up old dusted boxes in storage, giving way to the record’s central theme. Just shy of 39 minutes, the record reveals a dialogue of vulnerability, each song picking up different emotive boxes scattered about. Public Storage almost feels like an homage to the “sad” indie girls who once stood, with Mitski and Jay Som on the brain. Yet, there she stood: drenched in passion, filled with words and a singular goal to set a lane for herself that the industry didn’t provide before. It’s amusing to imagine Vu as a 13-year-old Angeleno musician in the heart of the indie-DIY scene. Even though it’s technically a debut, Vu has been in her career longer than most can fathom, making her credible debut as an adolescent teen. But both fell linearly, with age being the backbone of personal growth and time being the metaphoric trobe, soon becoming a theme of Public Storage, Vu’s debut album. AGE WAS NEVER CONSIDERED WITH HANA VU - and neither was time. ![]()
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