RADIO.COM's Kevan Kenney caught up with Goody Grace about the nostalgic element of being in quarantine and pretty much everything you ever want to know about his latest project, Don’t Forget Where You Came From.
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Getting right into it, Goody explained that interestingly enough, the while the feelings of nostalgia brought upon by being in lockdown definitely helped shape the project, the album’s title, Don’t Forget Where You Came From, has been on his mind since he was 17, which technically isn’t that long ago since currently he’s only 23.
“Its kind of funny, it was definitely inspired by it more, but from like years ago I knew that’s what I wanted to name my first project cause I think its just kinda like such a heavy quote," Goody explained. Further adding, “and it’s applicable to everyone, no matter what you’re doing, or what you’re trying to do in life. It just always kinda meant a lot to me.”
Moving things along, on a thought provoking vibe, Kenney brought up the importance of evolving as an artist and not staying stagnant, while still “maintaining a sense of self” and not forgetting where you came from, pun very much intended. For Goody he sees himself “somewhere stuck directly in the middle,” as someone who’s stayed “very much the same throughout my life, but that ‘same’ is a collection of many different things.”
In reference to his music, he said, “I don’t think I’ve ever really been able to like sit down and do just one thing, which you can hear from the music and everything. I think it was a bit tougher to convey that my earlier years,” expanding his thought to encompass even the past six years as a whole, as he’s just been releasing song by song. Admitting it makes it hard to “get a good grasp of who someone is,” which is why he was “really excited to put out the project so someone can kind of sit down and go front to back and sort of get to know me.”
“It’s important to no forget where you came from but to always evolve," he said closing out his thought. “I’m always incorporating my past and past interests and like perspectives and stuff as well as trying to keep it up to speed with y’know, how I feel right now.”
Next Kevan brought up the fact that Goody’s album is divvied up between two perspectives, that of his 16 year-old self and that of who his is now. When asked to explain how the divide is projected within the work, Goody explained that the differentiation isn’t so structured.
Starting his thought saying, “I think it’s important to let people into my world now as much as…” Before going off on a tangent of comparison, saying “you know someone like blink-182, who’s on the project, Enema of the State, it’s like such a great album, but they’re kinda singing about high school and stuff when they were a bit older. Or one of my favorite albums ever is Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen, you know he was in his twenties, singing about running away from home.” Jumping back to discussing his own project and how he thought it was “important to capture that.”
Answering Kenney’s original question, Goody explained that the breakdown of perspective “isn’t really song by song… it’s not even a set line in the sand that divides it. It’s honestly kind of line by line in a way.” Referring to the intro song “Don’t Forget” or “a song like Winter,” were written by “both teenage me and me now” works at just “conveying the energy of just that raw wanting to be successful and make something of my life that I have now, just as much as I did then.”
When it comes to the album's feature, Goody got players from all across the board, from Blink, to Juicy J, Cigarettes After Sex and Bakar, an up and coming artist Goody’s been friends with for a minute now. “I’ve known him for probably 4 or 5 years… before anyone really knew either of us… It’s amazing to see him finally killing it.” Goody added, “all those features on it mean like the world to me, and he’s been a big part of life,” so “it was like a no brainer that we have to do something together now that we both kinda have these platforms with music.”
So what’s next for Goody? Well according to him, he’s in the studio everyday “working on the next chapter” and feeling “inspired” by everyone’s reception of the album that it’s given him this “whole new approach to writing,” which has him, and not to mention us, “excited” about what’s to come.
For even more details about everything you just read plus so much more, check out Goody Grace’s entire interview above.
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March 26, 2021 at 08:00AM
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