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August
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For
August, I kinda went interview crazy, and have four to share with
you:
Tom Goss, Samuel Damewood (of the Nashville band Fuzz Face), Josh Duffy, and Mélange Lavonne...all premiering new work. Overall you'll find 33 songs, by 20 artists, with 11 artists new to OutRadio. |
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Part
1 - 59:29 Part
2 - 58:25 |
Part
3 - 61:40 click
on the artist name
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Quotes
from the Interviews
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"I'm going to do
what I want to do because I think that it's beautiful, and when I
do things that are beautiful people will connect with it, and not
really worry about, you know, what somebody from some newspaper that
I don't read, and what they're going to say about it. It's silly to
be beholding to critics but I think often as an artist, especially
an artist in the public sphere, you can fall into that trap."
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JD: As an artist and performer you were out of the closet from the get-go, any thoughts about that now? Josh: "It's
still my ambition to just remain who I am, you don't want to change
yourself, and at first you kind of put yourself in a corner as an
out artist, but at the end of the day people are going to appreciate
that about your honesty. And I have no regrets or anything other than
to say that's who I am, and that's what I'm going to continue to do,
and I'm not going to shove it in your face." |
 JD: I like that these are adult gay themes. SD: "They
are...that's one of the things when Matt and myself were writing
these things was just about...not forcing a song, just writing about
the experiences that we had, and that we knew. And if you're an
adult, you're going to experience adult things, and I think that
being completely open and honest in your music really sends out
a message that people can access, and can understand, and can connect
with." -- Samuel Damewood, of Fuzz Face |
JD: How do you think being so lyrically gay in your songs has affected your music career? ML: "I think it's actually catapulted it to a level where I don't think I would have been. Just for me being out has given me a huge fan base. If I wasn't out, or if I was just rapping about...whatever, the main stream stuff I don't think people would perceive me as a talented artist who could have that longevity. I can't say all my fans are gay, but the majority of them can relate to me, and I have that longevity with them. " -- Mélange Lavonne |
