Interview: Getting to know MAY-A
Byron-Bay-born, Sydney-based artist MAY-A has recently released her new single, Green. We asked her to tell us about herself:
I am… such a clutz. It’s honestly ridiculous. For example today I sat on my glasses and they broke (very sad about that) then spent the rest of the day looking for my backup glasses, my friend came over and asked what I was doing and once I told her she proceeded to remind me that I’d knocked them out of the window when we were in Prague about four months earlier. I was unaware that this ever happened. So if you spot any spelling mistakes throughout this interview, I’m blaming it on the fact that I can’t see. In a less stupid answer; I am an eighteen-year-old that likes to sing and draw and keep to herself, but also enjoys the company of anyone in particular, always down for an interesting conversation 🙂
Green is… a word for youth and naivety and I think the song reflects that. It’s a compilation of my young high school thoughts. I always thought that the stereotypical values that teenagers held highly were kind of fucked up, like if you were to ignore everyone and sit at the back of a party scowling at people you’re considered “cool”, and cliques were always seemed to be formed not through common interest or friendship but through isolating everyone that wasn’t a part of the inner circle. I found it sad.
I have been keeping myself busy lately by… painting (badly- I might add), skateboarding, walking my dog, making up false scenarios in my head…
Home is… “a place full of my safest sounds” – Troye Sivan. One of my favourite lyrics 🙂
It might surprise people to learn that… I hate tea… like I really really don’t like tea, I’m not quite sure why that’s surprising, I’m not English or anything, it’s just not… my cup of tea.
In the future… I’m hoping to be in an accomplished place, surrounded with good friends all in good health with just the right level of nostalgia. I’m looking forward to looking back! I hope I can say I’ve played some amazing shows and have managed to keep in close contact with my love of music. I really don’t want to lose touch with the reasons I’d started creating music in the first place. I also hope I can say that I’d tried experimenting with almost anything I could think of production-wise, I’m looking forward to doing that. But at the end of the day we all just want to be happy and loved.
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Interview by Bobby Townsend.
