Tems: For the music [Pulse Interview]

Till a couple of months earlier than her EP dropped, Tems didn’t know that story. However when she lastly knew, it felt like part of her formative story and he or she thought to share together with her viewers on her debut EP. Her music has at all times been part of who she is, the tales she tells are a few of her real-life experiences.

“My songs are like entries in my diary,” she says. It then is sensible that vast components of her life and formation like that voice word from her mother would make an EP full of different real-life experiences.

For somebody who didn’t actually understand that she may actually sing until she was 17, one would perceive why her mother’s story hit her. Earlier than she was 17 and he or she realized a must take music significantly, she was in love with music. She may play the piano and the guitar. She additionally wrote numerous songs.

“It was like going to the swimming pool to swim, not simply to change into an olympic swimmer however simply since you wish to swim,” she says. “I discovered to play the piano as a result of I wished to be taught it. It wasn’t due to anyone else.”

She didn’t take the music significantly till she launched ‘Mr. Insurgent.’ Apparently, the music was simply a type of songs she had written and placed on her laptop computer. When she launched it, she simply wished to check the market and the music caught hearth. Earlier than then, she was an entire novice as regards the music business.

“I recorded the music for the only real goal of releasing it and it taught me the steps and processes to releasing music,” she says. “Earlier than then, I didn’t know anyone. I didn’t even know there was essentially an business… After it dropped, I simply felt like this was the start.”

Trying again, she simply wished to share her music with individuals – she didn’t assume she was going to have a million streams off solely Apple Music from one music inside a couple of months.

Simply after ‘Mr. Insurgent,’ Tems launched ‘Looku Looku’ which is kind of merely a supreme little bit of musicality. However curiously, the music didn’t have a video however her subsequent single, ‘Strive Me’ did. ‘Strive Me’ took Tems from underground circles into area of interest after which into the earliest components of her sub-mainstream journey.

“Like ‘Mr. Insurgent,’ I simply wished to launch music with the issues I’d discovered. ‘Looku Looku’ didn’t have a video as a result of I used to be doing numerous issues on the time,” she says. “I’m an unbiased artist so I didn’t actually know the way issues labored and I additionally didn’t have sufficient sources like I do now.”

To her, it made sense to shoot the video for ‘Strive Me.’ And after that, it didn’t make sense to return to make a ‘Looku Looku’ video for apparent causes. After somewhat break, Tems did a few options for Present Dem Camp, Odunsi, Khalid and Blackmagic.

She then launched ‘These Days,’ ‘Damages’ and somewhat later her debut EP, For Broken Ears.

“I titled the EP ‘For Damaged Ears’ as a result of I wished to carry therapeutic to a bunch of people that haven’t been listening to music that edifies the spirit,” she says. “I wished individuals to search out therapeutic, braveness, hope and peace from it for a lot of sorts of damaged issues.”

On the EP, Tems mentioned the strains on a specific relationship greater than as soon as and he or she admits that her songs are based mostly on her actual experiences. Nonetheless, she wouldn’t say that she was damaged whereas making the EP.

“I might say that I used to be going by a journey although. Like I did overcome one thing and that’s why the ultimate monitor, ‘The Key’ is about overcoming issues by my very own philosophy,” she says. “The opening monitor can be like how I need individuals to really feel whereas listening to the EP and the sort of individuals I believe I made the EP for.”

A key miss on ‘For Damaged Ears’ was ‘These Days,’ which is nearly as good as something you’ll hear round. However curiously, Tems sees the document as a quarantine document.

“I recorded it throughout the quarantine and launched it throughout that interval, so it’s actually only a quarantine document,” she says.

Since she launched the EP, it’s been about working and planning. Not rather a lot has actually modified since ‘Strive Me’ bought common however she’s positively gotten busier and he or she’s needed to attend conferences and grant extra interviews. She nonetheless finds time to create and produce amidst the busy schedule although.

In an alternate actuality the place Tems isn’t an artist, she would in all probability be “an influencer” who is thought for being herself.

Whereas she might need gotten nervous in some unspecified time in the future in her life, Tems has additionally stopped feeling nervous as a result of she is aware of who she is and he or she is assured in who she is, her goal and her journey.

“There’s nothing that I can not do and there’s no motive to really feel nervous,” she emphatically says.

Tems continues to be unbiased and he or she’s glad the place she is, however she’s open to a deal. That deal needs to be value it to her although. It have to be evenly weighted and versatile with assurances on letting Tems be Tems and to amplify simply that.

Ultimately, Tems solely desires the easy issues for individuals who hearken to her music. She says she desires individuals to really feel impressed, inspired, empowered, assured and even like they’re the “baddest” after listening to her music.