When was the song written ? Did you write it because of some events in your life ?
I write the song in May 2021 . I don ’ t think it ’ s directly influenced by my personal experience . Honestly , when I wrote it initially , it was just another song that I wrote as part of my daily routine .
I think the inspiration quite oddly , came only once the process began and not before .
By that I mean , from starting as a regular song that I wrote , it gradually picked up pace and showed me and the team the potential it had to be something bigger once production began .
How did this project lead to a collaboration ?
I wrote the song and knew immediately it had to be a duet and so I left Zucho a message and asked her if she wanted to make a demo . She agreed and we made the demo , we loved it and instinctively knew we wanted to move on to the production phase . I took the demo to Kevi Pucho at Element Indie Records and that ’ s where the game changed . Sonically speaking , Kevi is the hero of the song . He believed in how big the song could be , bigger than how Zucho and I saw it from a production perspective . His energy was infectious and I knew I could trust him with the song . We layered a total of around 150 tracks for the song , that I guess speaks for itself .
Then I took the song to Sanen at San Production for the video production and just like Kevi , he immediately saw how big the video could be visually . He pitched the idea of bringing multiple characters and showing the concept of love from their varied perspectives and I thought it was absolutely brilliant .
What is the next direction that you ’ d like to take with your music from here ?
Like mentioned earlier , I ’ m heading towards a sonical shift in my music and I ’ m so excited . From my acoustic beginnings to the bigger sound in Always Be , it has been quite a journey .
But it ’ s time for the new , I ’ ve been working on this new sound for the last two years playing so many shows with my crew and making so many demos and I ’ ve never been more assured about where I am and where I am headed . The next two singles will show my new direction , which will hopefully be cemented with the album that comes out next
So just like I mentioned earlier , the inspiration for the song that we have now came through the process and not before . We would find one idea that we loved and then build another idea on top of it .
From pre-productions to release , the entire thing took us around 15 months to finish .
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