Introducing #102 - Tiiva
Let us introduce you to new artist Tiiva - who has come up with their own recipe for emotional pop songs. They took a moment to talk to us about their music and their debut track ‘Waves’.
Hey Tiiva, how are you? Your new track ‘Waves’ is out now, can you tell us what it is about?
Hey, I’m good thanks, how you doing? Waves is about completely losing time, finding out that time hasn’t stopped and we’re late for everything... It’s about an untouchable feeling that you have to write down, because the mundane words of everyday sentences could never describe it.
It's the kind of love that makes you want to start loving yourself. It's when someone sees your scars and fragility and believes in you, and allows you to believe you're capable of healing. It changes everything.
You are based in London, what are your favourite things about the city?
I love that you can really be anyone here, you can change and evolve without judgement, you can meet complete strangers and have a life’s worth of adventure in a single night, wake up the next day and reset. You can meet people from everywhere, learn and discover.. it’s euphoric and exhausting in a single second. The only thing we need to change is this government now.
Where do you go for musical adventures?
I feel like all music is created by and leads into adventures…my musical adventures exist from personal interactions, inspiration and that gets turned into emotive writing, poems and then into songs. Musical writing adventures happen from any night, evening, experience that has impacted me, it could be from a single moment and then it spirals and then the song is there. When I’m in the mountains and in nature is where I get the energy to reconnect and that also goes in…. it’s less about where you go and more about how you connect with that person or place at the time.
How would you describe your music to someone who has never listened to you before?
Emotional and lyrically charged, kinda pop and synth, rhythmic and intentional. Or I’d probably say grab a beer and have a listen
Who are your top musical influences when it comes to your songwriting?
A big range cause I usually get attached to songs and production ideas in several different songs. Off the top of my head, AG Cook, Nabihah Iqbal, Moses Sumney, James Blake, FKA Twigs, Oklou, Sega Bodega and Noname are some of my favourites, then there’s a load of song writers like Joni Mitchell and Sandy Denny… Then there’s a group I’m part of called 2% rising who big up female and non binary producers, engineers and writers, they have been a huge inspiration to me and those kind of communities are the driving force that will influence certain production stuff I do when I’m writing….really there’s no top, just a continuation of amazing artists and composers who I feel inspired by.