00:00Dead To Me definitely should have been a single and it wasn't.
00:04Hi Marie Claire, I'm Kaliuchis and this is For The Record.
00:10Isolation. Isolated. Young. Confident.
00:15I think probably what resonated most with my fans about isolation was
00:19nobody was making music that sounded like that.
00:22And that's kind of what I always try to do is just not go with what's on trend for the moment.
00:27If everyone's making dance music, I want to make ballads.
00:30I always want to just make music that's timeless and of the moment for me,
00:34not necessarily of the moment for what's on trend.
00:37I didn't feel any pressure making isolation, especially at that time period in my career.
00:42I was just happy to be doing what I love every day, making art, creating,
00:46and that's the most important thing for me.
00:48If anything, probably the most pressure I felt making isolation was just making sure,
00:53since it was my first album, that I could garner as much iconic collaborations as possible.
00:58And that's why I really took my time with it.
01:00It took me three years to make that album because I really traveled the world,
01:03going to work with Bootsie Collins and Tame Impala, Kevin Parker, and Damon Albarn, and Tyler,
01:10and all these different people.
01:11I just wanted to incorporate so many different walks of life into the album since it was my first one.
01:16Dead to Me definitely should have been a single, and it wasn't.
01:21I really wanted it to be a single, and so what I was given was like,
01:24oh, we'll just do like a live performance video, whatever.
01:26So we did like a little video, but it wasn't to the actual song.
01:28It was to a live performance, and that was the best I could get,
01:31because nobody really wanted to get behind that song.
01:34And then it ended up being one of the biggest songs on the album.
01:37Sin Miedo.
01:38Can't see it's very juicy, succulent, perhaps.
01:43I still remember that the first time I realized that it was going viral,
01:48it was Valentine's Day, 2020.
01:50I had never been a charts girl before.
01:52I just had to keep up with it.
01:53Like, I was like, okay, we have to go shoot a music video.
01:55And I just went straight to Colombia, shot a music video,
01:58just went to my hometown, did it in my neighborhood.
02:01And I think I'm a lot more mature, not even just as an artist,
02:06but as a woman, as a person, as a human being, as an individual,
02:09having such a deeper interconnectedness with myself.
02:13I just used to put everything on the internet,
02:15so it's been very much growing in the public eye.
02:18You know, people that can say that they've been with me from the beginning,
02:21they really have seen me come so far and been with me on the journey,
02:26and that's part of what has made it really special for me.
02:29Red Moon and Venus.
02:30Red Moon and Venus.
02:31Dark, steamy, wet.
02:33I would say my visual references for Red Moon and Venus,
02:37it was very iridescent.
02:40I was imagining a lot of translucent imagery of just, like,
02:44being see-through, being sexy, very red.
02:50It has astrological references in it,
02:52but I think the underlying theme was definitely that sexiness
02:57just kind of creating a world of its own, in a sense.
03:01I think it would smell musky.
03:04I think it would have a musk scent to it, but also floral.
03:07Very mature, because when I think of musk,
03:10I just think of sexy, dark, and that's kind of the way that I view the album.
03:15I would say Wishy Roses was the most special to me of the album.
03:18It really felt that I was speaking for my highest self,
03:21and I think it's hard to do that on a song,
03:23and I think a lot of the other songs on the album are very human,
03:26and they are coming from the human perspective, which is beautiful as well.
03:30But to be able to really make a whole song coming from your highest self
03:34is not something that happens often,
03:36so it was always special to me for that reason.
03:38I don't put a whole lot of thought into the titles.
03:42Usually they kind of just come to me, and when I feel like they stick
03:45and that they embody the work, if it sounds right and it feels right,
03:48I kind of just go with it.
03:49Sometimes they just happen intuitively, and I just run with it.
03:52Orquidias. Floral, fertile, mother.
03:57At the end of the day, that album in particular, it was really, really special for me
04:01because I've never, you know, experienced a pregnancy before.
04:05I've never had a baby before, and the entire role that I was pregnant.
04:08So it was really different. It was different.
04:10Definitely one to remember.
04:12I was really excited in particular about working with Caron
04:15just because we're both, you know, Colombian. We're both women.
04:18I love working with women. It's just really fun for me,
04:21and it's something that I had wanted to do for so long
04:24because of our shared background, and I have a lot of respect for her
04:27and how long she's been able to keep her career going.
04:30Probably the only other person that I got in the studio with was JT, another girl.
04:34So I'm just that way. With girls, I feel really comfortable to just express myself,
04:39and it felt like a fun little slumber party. Like, JT came to my house,
04:42and we were just bouncing ideas off each other,
04:45and I was telling her what to say.
04:47And I really don't care to work with guys too much.
04:50The guys who were on the album did a great job too,
04:52but respectively in their own studios, you know, with distance between us.
05:00But the girls, it was like, ooh, girly time. Like, it was fun.
05:03Sincerely, Silky, Mermaid, Kitty Cat, Meow.
05:08Becoming a mom and losing my mom in the same year was, like,
05:13two very strong life-altering events to happen.
05:17I was postpartum, like, fresh postpartum when I made a lot of this music,
05:20and I was also pregnant when I made a lot of this music.
05:23So I was very vulnerable and raw already, kind of just like knowing, you know,
05:27the inevitable that my mom wasn't going to be around much longer.
05:30So I think that's why a lot of my headspace was very much in that world.
05:34You know, I was just going through a lot and feeling everything a lot deeper than I ever had before.
05:39The album is dedicated to my mom, and my mom left me a lot of letters,
05:44which is kind of really all I have to remember her by now.
05:46Each song is like my letter to different aspects of my life.
05:50And then afterwards, I felt like I really had made the right decision with the title,
05:53because when I was reading back the things that my mom left me,
05:56I felt 100% confident with the title.
05:58I feel like once you become a mom,
06:00everybody has so many questions about what it's like to be a mom.
06:03My personal experience, I really love it.
06:06I genuinely am way happier now than I was before I had my baby.
06:10I always kind of feel like people think that I'm lying when I say that,
06:13because there's so many other women that have a different experience.
06:17I genuinely feel it was what my life was missing.
06:20You know, life gets really hard.
06:21And just to be able to look at him and wake up and see his smiles and play with him,
06:26it's like nothing else in the world matters.
06:28So it makes you appreciate life in a different way.
06:30It makes you be more present.
06:32I guess in a way that has affected my art,
06:35because I've been able to be more present as an artist in general
06:38and feel a lot deeper than I ever have.
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