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Artist Interview for BURST LDN - Ruelia

  • Joel Bailey

Interview of artist Ruelia for BURST LDN. Questions and transcribing by Joel Cameron Bailey. 2021. Video shot by Louiza (@artificially.blue) of BURST LDN. Available on @burst.ldn Instagram, via 'Guides'.

“You can start comparing yourself to people or expecting something and you feel like maybe I’m not cut out for this or it’s never gonna work. But whenever I hit that moment, I feel like I can’t let go. I literally feel like if I don’t do that I don’t know what I would do [instead]. It’s like my life force to create.”
Interviewed by Joel Cameron Bailey [ @joelcbailey ]
About Ruelia
Burst: Well I’m here with Ruelia, how are you doing?
Ruelia: Good How are you?
Burst: I am good, I am blessed! Happy to be speaking to you. So, we’ll start quite light, I just want you to tell me what led you to want to pursue singing as a career? Because everyone always gets the “what made you start singing” question when they were just a kid singing in their bedroom like everyone else, so what made you want to really make singing a thing?
Ruelia: Well actually I didn’t really sing growing up, because I didn’t really think that I could. So I grew up listening to a lot of music and music was always how I processed emotions and kind of related to the world but I didn’t think that it was something that I would ever do or could do. I went to New York when I was really young, I was still underage and I tried going to college for a little bit to try and find some direction. That didn’t work, so I went to L.A. and I started acting and I had an agent and he was like “you need to go to a singing lesson because if you ever go to an audition and they need you to sing, you need to be able to sing”. So I started taking singing lessons and I remember my first one and I had this “OH WOW” moment. I think there’s a feeling that sometimes people get and I hadn’t had it really before where I felt like if I don’t do this, I’m gonna regret it the rest of my life. And it was that fast, after the first lesson! I took singing lessons for like a month and I just started really thinking maybe I could do this. I [then] went to visit my parents and on the way back I was debating the whole trip should I stick to acting and to what I’m already doing or should I try something that is really calling to me. On the plane I was sitting there [thinking] if I’m ever going to know the answer it’s going to be right now because I could die at any moment, I’m the closest to God that I’ll ever be because I’m in the air and no one here knows me so there’s no outside judgement right? So I said that, then said in my head “what do I do?”. And this voice just said “sing”. I got off the plane and I quit everything the next day or that week went to Guitar Centre, asked a friend of mine what I needed and I just set up a mini studio in my closet and then took like 2 years to just study music. I would shadow every single person I could at the studio, learn, and just try and try and try.
Creative Energy and Spirituality
Burst: What does the word ‘expression’ mean to you?
Ruelia: Freedom. Expression to me is when you take your mind out of the equation and who you really are, what your soul really is comes out and you express that. I think you see that in music and dance etc. When you watch somebody who is truly expressing themselves, they’re not really a human being anymore, they’re a pure soul.
Burst: You talk a lot about energies and souls and almost not being of this world. How much is spirituality something that you take into your art?
Ruelia: I think it’s probably the most important thing. Art frees us from the box that we’re put in since we were little about what you’re supposed to be, how you’re supposed to act. All these human things we’re supposed to say, do, think and believe. At least for myself [art] helps me to connect to a deeper spirituality and when I make music or creating a visual or during a shoot, it takes me out of all the things that are put on you as a person. In music and creation I can find you I am really supposed to be instead of what I thought I was supposed to be.
Burst: On that theme, a lot of that was self spirituality and how you connect to yourself. Do you find that your art also allows you to connect to the energy of others? People you collaborate with for example?
For me, the point of making art is connecting to people. Maybe that’s one of the things that keeps me going is that my art will connect to people. But, when you collaborate with other people you see a very intimate side of them. I love the people I work with because we have a very symbiotic relationship in that we are allowed to be wherever we are on that day. In that moment if someone is going through a break-up, that goes into the art [for example]. I love working with choreographers, especially, because you can connect so deeply with them because it’s movement. Same with Directors and Videographers it’s cool to see people’s brains come together. I think that’s what got me through 2020.
Living through 2020
Burst: I was going to ask you about [2020]. When the pandemic hit, it made things difficult for everyone. But especially for those who aren’t from England originally and whose family and friends are elsewhere and are somewhat stranded. How has it been for you and how have you managed to keep pushing out content during this time? For a lot of people this has been a time where nothing has been happening.
Ruelia: I have a faith that if I keep moving in the direction I wanna go and I stay focused and grateful [it will work out]. I have been blessed people have come into my life that have made all of these things feel incredible. Even in the moments where I’m so homesick and I’m in a foreign country. Like I love London, it’s been my dream to live here and make music and I started manifesting that sh*t when I visited here a year ago, I said “I wanna live here”. I’ve been very blessed that for whatever reason these incredible people have come into my experience, and me into theirs, which has made it so that instead of focusing on [homesickness] I have to look at all these cool, amazing things that are here in front of me the rest will take care of itself. I wasn’t always of that mindset, I just think that now, with the pandemic, life is very short. If you’re not living your truth and pursuing whatever comes out of that you’re wasting your time. I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow or in a month so I better just follow whatever is going on right now and try not to think about the rest.
Burst: A kind of 'tunnel vision’ mentality.
Ruelia: Yeah, there’s obviously things that have made me sad, relationships and things like that, but if you can pull yourself out and look out how much is working for you, work out “what I can do next to honour my dreams and the people who are counting on me, it pulls you out. Not to say I don’t get depressed, I just think you can choose how you look at things.
Burst: A lot of what we do is [indeed] down to choice. There are some things that are out of our control but we have a sphere of influence for which, if it’s in our space, we can do something with [that influence]. Is that something you would agree with?
Ruelia: Yeah, I used to not be of that mentality but my best friend in L.A., who is really wise, would always tell me “Rue, this is a choice. You can choose what kind of day you’re going to have today. You can choose if you’re going to let this thing affect your whole day”. And for a long time I resisted that, but now I get that, especially in these times you really have to try and find the best set of every moment because the world is upside down and it’s easy to get caught up in what’s wrong. For me, I look at the fact that I have friends in both L.A. and [London], I have people I love in both places and I get to watch them in both places and that’s the craziest blessing to me.
Expression and Growth
Burst: So I actually Googled your name earlier!
Ruelia: Oh really!
Burst Yes, I was interested to know where the name came from. What I found was that Ruellia’s [spelt differently] are a type of Petunia flower from Mexico. Some interesting facts *says sarcastically*, it grows in fertile soil and can only tolerate small amounts of shade in order to grow. So to loosely tie an analogy together, how do you sustain your own growth as an artist when that negative or ‘shade’ does present itself to you?
Ruelia: First of all, I have an amazing support system. But I think what the pandemic taught me is the most important support system you need to have is yourself. And the pandemic was a huge blessing as I had to deal with myself. Now, it’s a mixture of having the most amazing friends I can call on if I need to talk but also having gotten to the point when sh*t happens, I know God/the universe/whatever you believe in really wants the best for us. I don’t think that we are designed to fail so if something happens that I don’t like or that hurts, I now try and look at it as a reroute, this is for my highest good or for the highest good of the other person. The situation wasn’t for me, but something is going to be for me next.
Burst: I now want to direct you back to the music side. One interesting thing about you is that you’re bilingual, as you also sing in Spanish. Does that make you feel more confident in expressing yourself and your creativity, as you have more than one way of communicating?
Ruelia: Hmm, that’s a great question! I guess, I mean I grew up between a lot of different musical influences so being able to speak Spanish helps me figure out more things to say or different facets of an experience. But what really gave me confidence is that I travelled and lived in Columbia in order to learn how to make Reggaeton. I studied it there and gave me confidence that I can learn how to do something [as well as] fully ingrain myself in it. Similar to [coming to London] I came here because I wanted to study afrobeats and the U.K. has an incredible music scene. I think that’s what really gave me confidence, more so than being bilingual. Being bilingual to me is amazing because you get to communicate with more people and that’s the sickest part.
Musical Style
Burst: Congratulations on the recent release of Control! A dark, bass-thumping, bedroom anthem in which you demand your partner to take control. When, in life, is it important to take control as opposed to releasing or giving it up?
Ruelia: I think they’re equally important. In life you can’t control anything except the way you act and react, so if you hold onto control you are going to f*ck up your life, because you’re not gonna allow either blessings or anything to come in since you’re so busy [thinking] it has to be this way. Nah! We’re not God. But at the same time for me, as a woman in music and especially as someone who manages themselves, I write my treatments or write them with my director and write all my songs, I go into the studio with a producer with an idea of all the sounds I want. Of course [my producers are amazing and it’s a relationship with them] but yes, in that sense, you need to take control of your life. If you don’t know what you want it’s cool, but you have to be like “even if I don’t know where I’m going, I’m going to try and take every single step to prepare myself for what that is.” You gotta take control of yourself and your life, but life isn’t something you can always control. [As a] business woman, I obviously am [not strict on] things needing to be a certain way but I don’t f*ck with BS at all. But in an intimate relationship I don’t wanna have to take that role because I’m not that girl. And so Control Me is about that. Like I’m a boss but if you ask me [to make a decision on] what I want to eat [for example] I don’t know! So I think it’s both. Life isn’t black and white, it’s grey.
Burst: One thing that I felt from listening to your music was that sensuality was one of the core themes that come from your songs. How intertwined do you feel art and sensuality are to you? Does one help the other?
Ruelia: That’s a really good question. Now they are more intertwined because I think as I went through pandemic I had my heartbroken and I went through a pit [into] something I had never explored because I had been so focused on being ‘something’ for whoever I was dating. So, then sensuality became more of a thing because I figured out myself, what I want, and what I like, what kind of person I like and what I need to be for myself and that is a very sensual person. Now it is [intertwined] but not all my songs have that theme, I just think sometimes it’s something that needs to be said, but I can switch it up and make a song about something completely different.
Burst: So on that note, how would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music?
Ruelia: If you are asking genre, there is no genre. My goal, from the jump, is to make ‘world music’ because I never lived in one place; I lived all over. I’ve taken all these influences throughout my life and that goes into what makes my genre. I studied Reggaeton, I studied Afrobeats. My favourite band is Beuna Vista Social Club, which is old Cuban Jazz. [However] in terms of content it’s just life, you know? My music is just an expression of being a human being, it’s very human I think. Because I’m not trying to put myself in a box, I don’t think we belong in boxes. So I would say it’s dark, I’m not afraid to say WTF I think, it’s honest for the most part [as sometimes] we live out our fantasies in our music. It’s unapologetic, which my Dad hates because he’s a Minister… but that’s part of what it is! And most importantly it’s expression and it’s without judgement.
Burst: So far, the focus has for you has been releasing singles, with a fairly steady stream of music over the last 18 months. For an artist, when is the right time to release a project or collection of songs.
Ruelia: Whenever you feel you’re ready. It’s different [for different artists]. For me, Control is the first single off my EP. But before I needed to do my Reggaeton ting and move through that first because I needed to get that out, it’s an integral part of my music. That’s why I did singles. It depends on the artist really. It’s a personal journey you know.
Burst: You mentioned earlier about musical influences. Would you be able to name your biggest musical influences?
Ruelia: Of course! Prince is number one, Madonna number 2. I pull a lot from Punk and Rock. Red Hot Chilli Peppers are really important to me. Some people would laugh at this but I love Korn, Death Grips, Limp Bizkit, all that sh*t. Trent Reznor [and his band] Nine Inch Nails are a big influence too. And then there’s Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon. Grime. Songs like ‘Many Men’ [Pop Smoke]. Old Jazz inspires me a lot. A lot of Spanish music. It’s a bit of a mix! [Why I like Prince is] because he was completely free artistically and I really f*ck with that.
Burst: It’s always interesting to speak to people who you feel there is something to take from any form of art, especially since the world has brought us lots of different styles.
Ruelia: Yeah, I was really into Punk too my friends are in this Punk band in L.A. and they helped get me into it. I went through a phase where I was only listening to Bad Brains, Black Flag, Cro-Mags. For me I just go with whatever I’m feeling at the time. I also went through a phase where I made seven Rock songs and all I listened to for that month and a half was Red Hot Chilli Peppers, exclusively. A lot of phases!
Burst: What can we expect from Ruelia, in 2021?
Ruelia: I don’t know what I can expect from Ruelia in 2021! She’s gonna WTF she’s gonna do! My goal is to just keep pushing the bar higher and higher and higher. I have my goals and I know what’s on my radar. It’s a lot.
Burst: So… stay tuned?
Ruelia: Yeah! I’d say get ready for an EP, get ready for videos. We’re in a pandemic so it’s kind of hard to plan but I’m not playing games this year.
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Do you find that your art also allows you to connect to the energy of others? People you collaborate with for example?\\nFor me, the point of making art is connecting to people. Maybe that’s one of the things that keeps me going is that my art will connect to people. But, when you collaborate with other people you see a very intimate side of them. I love the people I work with because we have a very symbiotic relationship in that we are allowed to be wherever we are on that day. In that moment if someone is going through a break-up, that goes into the art [for example]. I love working with choreographers, especially, because you can connect so deeply with them because it’s movement. Same with Directors and Videographers it’s cool to see people’s brains come together. I think that’s what got me through 2020.\\nLiving through 2020\\nBurst: I was going to ask you about [2020]. When the pandemic hit, it made things difficult for everyone. But especially for those who aren’t from England originally and whose family and friends are elsewhere and are somewhat stranded. How has it been for you and how have you managed to keep pushing out content during this time? For a lot of people this has been a time where nothing has been happening.\\nRuelia: I have a faith that if I keep moving in the direction I wanna go and I stay focused and grateful [it will work out]. I have been blessed people have come into my life that have made all of these things feel incredible. Even in the moments where I’m so homesick and I’m in a foreign country. Like I love London, it’s been my dream to live here and make music and I started manifesting that sh*t when I visited here a year ago, I said “I wanna live here”. I’ve been very blessed that for whatever reason these incredible people have come into my experience, and me into theirs, which has made it so that instead of focusing on [homesickness] I have to look at all these cool, amazing things that are here in front of me the rest will take care of itself. I wasn’t always of that mindset, I just think that now, with the pandemic, life is very short. If you’re not living your truth and pursuing whatever comes out of that you’re wasting your time. I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow or in a month so I better just follow whatever is going on right now and try not to think about the rest.\\nBurst: A kind of 'tunnel vision’ mentality.\\nRuelia: Yeah, there’s obviously things that have made me sad, relationships and things like that, but if you can pull yourself out and look out how much is working for you, work out “what I can do next to honour my dreams and the people who are counting on me, it pulls you out. Not to say I don’t get depressed, I just think you can choose how you look at things.\\nBurst: A lot of what we do is [indeed] down to choice. There are some things that are out of our control but we have a sphere of influence for which, if it’s in our space, we can do something with [that influence]. Is that something you would agree with?\\nRuelia: Yeah, I used to not be of that mentality but my best friend in L.A., who is really wise, would always tell me “Rue, this is a choice. You can choose what kind of day you’re going to have today. You can choose if you’re going to let this thing affect your whole day”. And for a long time I resisted that, but now I get that, especially in these times you really have to try and find the best set of every moment because the world is upside down and it’s easy to get caught up in what’s wrong. For me, I look at the fact that I have friends in both L.A. and [London], I have people I love in both places and I get to watch them in both places and that’s the craziest blessing to me.\\nExpression and Growth\\nBurst: So I actually Googled your name earlier!\\nRuelia: Oh really!\\nBurst Yes, I was interested to know where the name came from. What I found was that Ruellia’s [spelt differently] are a type of Petunia flower from Mexico. Some interesting facts *says sarcastically*, it grows in fertile soil and can only tolerate small amounts of shade in order to grow. So to loosely tie an analogy together, how do you sustain your own growth as an artist when that negative or ‘shade’ does present itself to you?\\nRuelia: First of all, I have an amazing support system. But I think what the pandemic taught me is the most important support system you need to have is yourself. And the pandemic was a huge blessing as I had to deal with myself. Now, it’s a mixture of having the most amazing friends I can call on if I need to talk but also having gotten to the point when sh*t happens, I know God/the universe/whatever you believe in really wants the best for us. I don’t think that we are designed to fail so if something happens that I don’t like or that hurts, I now try and look at it as a reroute, this is for my highest good or for the highest good of the other person. The situation wasn’t for me, but something is going to be for me next.\\nBurst: I now want to direct you back to the music side. One interesting thing about you is that you’re bilingual, as you also sing in Spanish. Does that make you feel more confident in expressing yourself and your creativity, as you have more than one way of communicating?\\nRuelia: Hmm, that’s a great question! I guess, I mean I grew up between a lot of different musical influences so being able to speak Spanish helps me figure out more things to say or different facets of an experience. But what really gave me confidence is that I travelled and lived in Columbia in order to learn how to make Reggaeton. I studied it there and gave me confidence that I can learn how to do something [as well as] fully ingrain myself in it. Similar to [coming to London] I came here because I wanted to study afrobeats and the U.K. has an incredible music scene. I think that’s what really gave me confidence, more so than being bilingual. Being bilingual to me is amazing because you get to communicate with more people and that’s the sickest part.\\nMusical Style\\nBurst: Congratulations on the recent release of Control! A dark, bass-thumping, bedroom anthem in which you demand your partner to take control. When, in life, is it important to take control as opposed to releasing or giving it up?\\nRuelia: I think they’re equally important. In life you can’t control anything except the way you act and react, so if you hold onto control you are going to f*ck up your life, because you’re not gonna allow either blessings or anything to come in since you’re so busy [thinking] it has to be this way. Nah! We’re not God. But at the same time for me, as a woman in music and especially as someone who manages themselves, I write my treatments or write them with my director and write all my songs, I go into the studio with a producer with an idea of all the sounds I want. Of course [my producers are amazing and it’s a relationship with them] but yes, in that sense, you need to take control of your life. If you don’t know what you want it’s cool, but you have to be like “even if I don’t know where I’m going, I’m going to try and take every single step to prepare myself for what that is.” You gotta take control of yourself and your life, but life isn’t something you can always control. [As a] business woman, I obviously am [not strict on] things needing to be a certain way but I don’t f*ck with BS at all. But in an intimate relationship I don’t wanna have to take that role because I’m not that girl. And so Control Me is about that. Like I’m a boss but if you ask me [to make a decision on] what I want to eat [for example] I don’t know! So I think it’s both. Life isn’t black and white, it’s grey.\\nBurst: One thing that I felt from listening to your music was that sensuality was one of the core themes that come from your songs. How intertwined do you feel art and sensuality are to you? Does one help the other?\\nRuelia: That’s a really good question. Now they are more intertwined because I think as I went through pandemic I had my heartbroken and I went through a pit [into] something I had never explored because I had been so focused on being ‘something’ for whoever I was dating. So, then sensuality became more of a thing because I figured out myself, what I want, and what I like, what kind of person I like and what I need to be for myself and that is a very sensual person. Now it is [intertwined] but not all my songs have that theme, I just think sometimes it’s something that needs to be said, but I can switch it up and make a song about something completely different.\\nBurst: So on that note, how would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music?\\nRuelia: If you are asking genre, there is no genre. My goal, from the jump, is to make ‘world music’ because I never lived in one place; I lived all over. I’ve taken all these influences throughout my life and that goes into what makes my genre. I studied Reggaeton, I studied Afrobeats. My favourite band is Beuna Vista Social Club, which is old Cuban Jazz. [However] in terms of content it’s just life, you know? My music is just an expression of being a human being, it’s very human I think. Because I’m not trying to put myself in a box, I don’t think we belong in boxes. So I would say it’s dark, I’m not afraid to say WTF I think, it’s honest for the most part [as sometimes] we live out our fantasies in our music. It’s unapologetic, which my Dad hates because he’s a Minister… but that’s part of what it is! And most importantly it’s expression and it’s without judgement.\\nBurst: So far, the focus has for you has been releasing singles, with a fairly steady stream of music over the last 18 months. For an artist, when is the right time to release a project or collection of songs.\\nRuelia: Whenever you feel you’re ready. It’s different [for different artists]. For me, Control is the first single off my EP. But before I needed to do my Reggaeton ting and move through that first because I needed to get that out, it’s an integral part of my music. That’s why I did singles. It depends on the artist really. It’s a personal journey you know.\\nBurst: You mentioned earlier about musical influences. Would you be able to name your biggest musical influences?\\nRuelia: Of course! Prince is number one, Madonna number 2. I pull a lot from Punk and Rock. Red Hot Chilli Peppers are really important to me. Some people would laugh at this but I love Korn, Death Grips, Limp Bizkit, all that sh*t. Trent Reznor [and his band] Nine Inch Nails are a big influence too. And then there’s Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon. Grime. Songs like ‘Many Men’ [Pop Smoke]. Old Jazz inspires me a lot. A lot of Spanish music. It’s a bit of a mix! [Why I like Prince is] because he was completely free artistically and I really f*ck with that.\\nBurst: It’s always interesting to speak to people who you feel there is something to take from any form of art, especially since the world has brought us lots of different styles.\\nRuelia: Yeah, I was really into Punk too my friends are in this Punk band in L.A. and they helped get me into it. I went through a phase where I was only listening to Bad Brains, Black Flag, Cro-Mags. For me I just go with whatever I’m feeling at the time. I also went through a phase where I made seven Rock songs and all I listened to for that month and a half was Red Hot Chilli Peppers, exclusively. A lot of phases!\\nBurst: What can we expect from Ruelia, in 2021?\\nRuelia: I don’t know what I can expect from Ruelia in 2021! She’s gonna WTF she’s gonna do! My goal is to just keep pushing the bar higher and higher and higher. I have my goals and I know what’s on my radar. It’s a lot.\\nBurst: So… stay tuned?\\nRuelia: Yeah! I’d say get ready for an EP, get ready for videos. We’re in a pandemic so it’s kind of hard to plan but I’m not playing games this year.\",\"reactDraftJson\":\"{\\\"blocks\\\":[{\\\"key\\\":\\\"d1pko\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"“You can start comparing yourself to people or expecting something and you feel like maybe I’m not cut out for this or it’s never gonna work. But whenever I hit that moment, I feel like I can’t let go. I literally feel like if I don’t do that I don’t know what I would do [instead]. 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Happy to be speaking to you. So, we’ll start quite light, I just want you to tell me what led you to want to pursue singing as a career? Because everyone always gets the “what made you start singing” question when they were just a kid singing in their bedroom like everyone else, so what made you want to really make singing a thing?\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"f143d\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ruelia: Well actually I didn’t really sing growing up, because I didn’t really think that I could. So I grew up listening to a lot of music and music was always how I processed emotions and kind of related to the world but I didn’t think that it was something that I would ever do or could do. I went to New York when I was really young, I was still underage and I tried going to college for a little bit to try and find some direction. That didn’t work, so I went to L.A. and I started acting and I had an agent and he was like “you need to go to a singing lesson because if you ever go to an audition and they need you to sing, you need to be able to sing”. So I started taking singing lessons and I remember my first one and I had this “OH WOW” moment. I think there’s a feeling that sometimes people get and I hadn’t had it really before where I felt like if I don’t do this, I’m gonna regret it the rest of my life. And it was that fast, after the first lesson! I took singing lessons for like a month and I just started really thinking maybe I could do this. I [then] went to visit my parents and on the way back I was debating the whole trip should I stick to acting and to what I’m already doing or should I try something that is really calling to me. On the plane I was sitting there [thinking] if I’m ever going to know the answer it’s going to be right now because I could die at any moment, I’m the closest to God that I’ll ever be because I’m in the air and no one here knows me so there’s no outside judgement right? So I said that, then said in my head “what do I do?”. And this voice just said “sing”. I got off the plane and I quit everything the next day or that week went to Guitar Centre, asked a friend of mine what I needed and I just set up a mini studio in my closet and then took like 2 years to just study music. 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I think you see that in music and dance etc. When you watch somebody who is truly expressing themselves, they’re not really a human being anymore, they’re a pure soul.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"d9m8d\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Burst: You talk a lot about energies and souls and almost not being of this world. How much is spirituality something that you take into your art?\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"d1bor\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ruelia: I think it’s probably the most important thing. Art frees us from the box that we’re put in since we were little about what you’re supposed to be, how you’re supposed to act. All these human things we’re supposed to say, do, think and believe. At least for myself [art] helps me to connect to a deeper spirituality and when I make music or creating a visual or during a shoot, it takes me out of all the things that are put on you as a person. In music and creation I can find you I am really supposed to be instead of what I thought I was supposed to be.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"9mmfd\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Burst: On that theme, a lot of that was self spirituality and how you connect to yourself. Do you find that your art also allows you to connect to the energy of others? People you collaborate with for example?\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"cfacb\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"For me, the point of making art is connecting to people. Maybe that’s one of the things that keeps me going is that my art will connect to people. But, when you collaborate with other people you see a very intimate side of them. I love the people I work with because we have a very symbiotic relationship in that we are allowed to be wherever we are on that day. In that moment if someone is going through a break-up, that goes into the art [for example]. I love working with choreographers, especially, because you can connect so deeply with them because it’s movement. Same with Directors and Videographers it’s cool to see people’s brains come together. I think that’s what got me through 2020.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"8sgi3\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Living through 2020\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[{\\\"offset\\\":0,\\\"length\\\":19,\\\"style\\\":\\\"UNDERLINE\\\"}],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"92a7d\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Burst: I was going to ask you about [2020]. When the pandemic hit, it made things difficult for everyone. But especially for those who aren’t from England originally and whose family and friends are elsewhere and are somewhat stranded. How has it been for you and how have you managed to keep pushing out content during this time? For a lot of people this has been a time where nothing has been happening.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"b3asn\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ruelia: I have a faith that if I keep moving in the direction I wanna go and I stay focused and grateful [it will work out]. I have been blessed people have come into my life that have made all of these things feel incredible. Even in the moments where I’m so homesick and I’m in a foreign country. Like I love London, it’s been my dream to live here and make music and I started manifesting that sh*t when I visited here a year ago, I said “I wanna live here”. I’ve been very blessed that for whatever reason these incredible people have come into my experience, and me into theirs, which has made it so that instead of focusing on [homesickness] I have to look at all these cool, amazing things that are here in front of me the rest will take care of itself. I wasn’t always of that mindset, I just think that now, with the pandemic, life is very short. If you’re not living your truth and pursuing whatever comes out of that you’re wasting your time. I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow or in a month so I better just follow whatever is going on right now and try not to think about the rest.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"avrsf\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Burst: A kind of 'tunnel vision’ mentality.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"bof17\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ruelia: Yeah, there’s obviously things that have made me sad, relationships and things like that, but if you can pull yourself out and look out how much is working for you, work out “what I can do next to honour my dreams and the people who are counting on me, it pulls you out. 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And for a long time I resisted that, but now I get that, especially in these times you really have to try and find the best set of every moment because the world is upside down and it’s easy to get caught up in what’s wrong. For me, I look at the fact that I have friends in both L.A. and [London], I have people I love in both places and I get to watch them in both places and that’s the craziest blessing to me.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"ff1fg\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Expression and Growth\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[{\\\"offset\\\":0,\\\"length\\\":21,\\\"style\\\":\\\"UNDERLINE\\\"}],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"5o7hh\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Burst: So I actually Googled your name earlier!\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"6giin\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ruelia: Oh really!\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"bjo75\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Burst Yes, I was interested to know where the name came from. What I found was that Ruellia’s [spelt differently] are a type of Petunia flower from Mexico. Some interesting facts *says sarcastically*, it grows in fertile soil and can only tolerate small amounts of shade in order to grow. So to loosely tie an analogy together, how do you sustain your own growth as an artist when that negative or ‘shade’ does present itself to you?\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"4dqe5\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ruelia: First of all, I have an amazing support system. But I think what the pandemic taught me is the most important support system you need to have is yourself. And the pandemic was a huge blessing as I had to deal with myself. Now, it’s a mixture of having the most amazing friends I can call on if I need to talk but also having gotten to the point when sh*t happens, I know God/the universe/whatever you believe in really wants the best for us. I don’t think that we are designed to fail so if something happens that I don’t like or that hurts, I now try and look at it as a reroute, this is for my highest good or for the highest good of the other person. The situation wasn’t for me, but something is going to be for me next.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"4b9q9\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Burst: I now want to direct you back to the music side. One interesting thing about you is that you’re bilingual, as you also sing in Spanish. Does that make you feel more confident in expressing yourself and your creativity, as you have more than one way of communicating?\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"14e4m\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ruelia: Hmm, that’s a great question! I guess, I mean I grew up between a lot of different musical influences so being able to speak Spanish helps me figure out more things to say or different facets of an experience. But what really gave me confidence is that I travelled and lived in Columbia in order to learn how to make Reggaeton. I studied it there and gave me confidence that I can learn how to do something [as well as] fully ingrain myself in it. Similar to [coming to London] I came here because I wanted to study afrobeats and the U.K. has an incredible music scene. I think that’s what really gave me confidence, more so than being bilingual. 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In life you can’t control anything except the way you act and react, so if you hold onto control you are going to f*ck up your life, because you’re not gonna allow either blessings or anything to come in since you’re so busy [thinking] it has to be this way. Nah! We’re not God. But at the same time for me, as a woman in music and especially as someone who manages themselves, I write my treatments or write them with my director and write all my songs, I go into the studio with a producer with an idea of all the sounds I want. Of course [my producers are amazing and it’s a relationship with them] but yes, in that sense, you need to take control of your life. If you don’t know what you want it’s cool, but you have to be like “even if I don’t know where I’m going, I’m going to try and take every single step to prepare myself for what that is.” You gotta take control of yourself and your life, but life isn’t something you can always control. [As a] business woman, I obviously am [not strict on] things needing to be a certain way but I don’t f*ck with BS at all. But in an intimate relationship I don’t wanna have to take that role because I’m not that girl. And so Control Me is about that. Like I’m a boss but if you ask me [to make a decision on] what I want to eat [for example] I don’t know! So I think it’s both. Life isn’t black and white, it’s grey.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"3opd4\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Burst: One thing that I felt from listening to your music was that sensuality was one of the core themes that come from your songs. How intertwined do you feel art and sensuality are to you? Does one help the other?\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"fs31u\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ruelia: That’s a really good question. Now they are more intertwined because I think as I went through pandemic I had my heartbroken and I went through a pit [into] something I had never explored because I had been so focused on being ‘something’ for whoever I was dating. So, then sensuality became more of a thing because I figured out myself, what I want, and what I like, what kind of person I like and what I need to be for myself and that is a very sensual person. Now it is [intertwined] but not all my songs have that theme, I just think sometimes it’s something that needs to be said, but I can switch it up and make a song about something completely different.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"dkt9a\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Burst: So on that note, how would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music?\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"8f3b1\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ruelia: If you are asking genre, there is no genre. My goal, from the jump, is to make ‘world music’ because I never lived in one place; I lived all over. I’ve taken all these influences throughout my life and that goes into what makes my genre. I studied Reggaeton, I studied Afrobeats. My favourite band is Beuna Vista Social Club, which is old Cuban Jazz. [However] in terms of content it’s just life, you know? My music is just an expression of being a human being, it’s very human I think. Because I’m not trying to put myself in a box, I don’t think we belong in boxes. So I would say it’s dark, I’m not afraid to say WTF I think, it’s honest for the most part [as sometimes] we live out our fantasies in our music. It’s unapologetic, which my Dad hates because he’s a Minister… but that’s part of what it is! And most importantly it’s expression and it’s without judgement.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"3ubgs\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Burst: So far, the focus has for you has been releasing singles, with a fairly steady stream of music over the last 18 months. 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Would you be able to name your biggest musical influences?\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"3mp76\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ruelia: Of course! Prince is number one, Madonna number 2. I pull a lot from Punk and Rock. Red Hot Chilli Peppers are really important to me. Some people would laugh at this but I love Korn, Death Grips, Limp Bizkit, all that sh*t. Trent Reznor [and his band] Nine Inch Nails are a big influence too. And then there’s Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon. Grime. Songs like ‘Many Men’ [Pop Smoke]. Old Jazz inspires me a lot. A lot of Spanish music. It’s a bit of a mix! [Why I like Prince is] because he was completely free artistically and I really f*ck with that.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"cd5mt\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Burst: It’s always interesting to speak to people who you feel there is something to take from any form of art, especially since the world has brought us lots of different styles.\\\",\\\"type\\\":\\\"unstyled\\\",\\\"depth\\\":0,\\\"inlineStyleRanges\\\":[],\\\"entityRanges\\\":[],\\\"data\\\":{}},{\\\"key\\\":\\\"egkb8\\\",\\\"text\\\":\\\"Ruelia: Yeah, I was really into Punk too my friends are in this Punk band in L.A. and they helped get me into it. I went through a phase where I was only listening to Bad Brains, Black Flag, Cro-Mags. For me I just go with whatever I’m feeling at the time. 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