Interview: Getting to know Odina
London-based, Spanish folk singer/songwriter Odina recently released a new single. We asked her to tell us about herself:
I am… Blanca, I’m 21, I’m Spanish and I’m a songwriter. I’m a person who overthinks a lot, and who enjoys writing sad songs. I love Harry Potter. I’m a dreamer. I love dogs, especially my dog Bob. He’s named after Bob Dylan. I miss my dog. I should write a song about that.
“Nothing Makes Sense” is… a song about overthinking things in life, the present and the future, life and death and the uncertainty of it all. It’s about the uncertainty of life I guess. I think it’s one of my happiest songs. Which isn’t saying a lot.
My upcoming EP is… this random collection of songs. It is random, but I think it makes sense in a random way. I think that’s why I wanted to call it ‘Nothing Makes Sense’ EP. All of these songs are about different things, but for me they are part of this growing up face, going into adulthood, but being far away from it. A child that looks into adulthood and tries to understand parts of it, while just trying to go through life, day by day, step by step. There is not one theme but rather many, but they all have this vision or point of view in common. There’s also a cover in it. I don’t wanna reveal too much too soon. You’ll have to listen to it when it’s out…
Home is… Tarragona, it’s a small city near Barcelona. It’s where I’ve always lived since I was a kid, until I moved to London. It’s by the beach, it’s very beautiful, quite calm and quite special. In some ways, I also feel that London feels like home lately, I’ve lived there for the past 3 years. I recently moved to Paris for my year abroad at uni, so right now Paris is where I live. I wouldn’t say it feels like home just yet, I don’t know if I’ll be staying here long enough for it to feel like home really. It’s quite weird how after moving to a place for long enough it can start feeling like home, can a person have more than one home at once? In some other ways, once you move away from where you grew up, can you become homeless? Because that place where you grew up won’t feel the same anymore, as you’ve changed and grown up away from that place, and every time you come back things won’t feel the same to you. At the same time, can a place where you’ve only lived for a short amount of time really ever feel like home? Or maybe home is where the people that you love are. In that case I’d have a lot of different homes, spread across all over the place…
I spend too much time… watching Netflix. I’ve watched more shows and films than I care to admit.
I’ve never… seen a polar bear. It’s on my bucket list. I always thought polar bears were these very cute creatures, until someone told me recently that their friend was killed by a polar bear… I still wanna see one some day.
It might surprise people to learn that… I don’t like coffee. I love tea. And I’m not even English. Maybe that’s the secret reason why I moved to London… to drink more and better tea?
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Interview by Bobby Townsend.
