Poo Bear interview

Hollywood Journal

2 days ago

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00:00Happy birthday. My name is Poo Bear. I'm here with Hollywood Life and we're here to discuss

00:07my new album, The Book of Nabil. It's dropping tonight at midnight everywhere. Favorite human

00:13is out everywhere already. The video is everywhere. And I'm excited to have this conversation.

00:19My motivation behind The Book of Nabil would be just growth, showing growth. I've had a lot of

00:33success. I've written a lot of songs. This project was done with a really dear brother of mine named

00:39Nabil. And these poems, you know, come from his heart and we were able to take them and turn them

00:47in amazing songs. And, you know, in doing so, you know, I just saw so much growth and, you know,

00:54in my voice and my performance and my melodies, you know, I was like, you know what, this is amazing.

01:00Like, we should actually put this out. And, you know, it just shows, you know, it's like a new

01:06template of other music that you can do. Like, everybody kind of gets stuck in these cliche

01:12formats and song structures and The Book of Nabil steps outside of that box. And just doing that,

01:20this project, you know, I was like, you know, I really want the world to hear this stuff. I don't

01:24want this to go to the music abyss. And, you know, even if it doesn't, you know, sell a kazillion

01:31records, I do, you know, me and Nabil felt like it was very important that this music came out

01:36and, you know, that it was, you know, also come out and sets a new bar, a new standard

01:44for the people that do hear it. If they're musicians, they can hear it and they can see

01:49like, hey, there's a whole lot of, there's a whole lot more words and vocabulary that can be

01:56saying, you know, and there's so many different ways that you can, you know, sing, you know,

02:02these records, it really, you know, it's a great template for people to use and to grow.

02:10So on top of, you know, what I've done in my past is great, but, you know, stepping out and being a

02:16singer and putting out the book in the bill, for me, it shows growth, you know, from my, to myself

02:21and myself. And, and hopefully the people that are listening to it, they're inspired and people

02:27that the creatives that listen to it, they're inspired to, you know, take something from it and

02:32you know, add on to it and also evolve it even into more music. So it's very important

02:38to, to keep music out and to put new fresh music out. That's inspiring for the world and

02:44also, you know, very fulfilling for, for myself.

02:47And the significance of the album's title, which is the book of Nabil is these words, these stanzas

03:03come from my, my brother, Nabil's heart. And, you know, it's the first time I've ever written

03:09with a poet in my whole career. Um, I've been writing for 27 years. So, you know, just to be

03:15able to, to use some words, to have, you know, poems that already have an amazing, you know,

03:22structure already have, or even if they don't have a structure, they have amazing stanzas,

03:27they have an amazing concept, which is the main idea, which is the most important part of the song.

03:31And, you know, those came from Nabil's heart. So I came up with the idea to say, Hey, let's just

03:39call it the book in the bill because these poems that I turned into songs came from your heart.

03:44They came from, you know, words from, from the bill, from the bill's heart. So hence the book

03:50in the bill, you know, for me, it, it fit perfectly just because these are from a book of poems from

03:57the bill. So it makes all the sense in the world to call it the book of the bill.

04:01Um, I, once again, on, on this album, I definitely pushed the Sonics forward. I worked on them

04:17with Shindo, you know, amazing producer with Sasha Sirota. Um, and, you know, John, um, John

04:26Mayan actually from, from Paris that worked on some chords and it was all, all just pushing

04:34everything forward after we put down, you know, basic concepts, basic chords saying, what sounds

04:40can we use? What can we use? It hasn't been done before. What can we, what, you know, drums,

04:46what cadences can we tap into that aren't, you know, the most predictable. And, um, so it was

04:53definitely a process of pushing the Sonics forward, reaching outside of the box and coming

04:59up with, you know, which is different everything just so we're not bored personally. So we're not

05:05bored. And at the same time, we, like we said, I, we hope to inspire and to, you know, engage

05:11people with a new product that they can't say, well, I've already got this. I could just

05:16listen to this other project. You can't, you know, and we don't want, I don't want, you

05:20know, we don't want you to be able to compare this album to anything. So in creating it, we

05:24were definitely very intentional about pushing it forward and making sure that, you know,

05:30it's separate from everything else that's out in the world and people can't, you know, get

05:35it confused with other records. So definitely was intended to push the music forward sonically,

05:40and melodically and overall, you know, just create a whole new everything for the world.

05:49I was not always confident as an artist. Um, and my obesity, a lot to me being overweight

05:57and me thinking about what other people were thinking about me and about, you know, what

06:02other people, you know, said or whatever, you know, the comments or opinions on me is

06:07it definitely got me at a place where I enjoy just hiding in the studio and living vicariously

06:14through different artists that will sing, sing the songs and bring up to life. Um, so on,

06:19on my, on my fitness journey, you know, I've always put out music, you know, for, for a while,

06:26you know, but in during the last three, four years, I just noticed my own confidence go up a lot,

06:33just based on, you know, my, my size, being able to wear the clothes that I desire. Um, you know,

06:40being able to be comfortable and not, you know, walking around sweating, being hot all the time,

06:46all that definitely had a lot to do with, you know, building my confidence up to being a singer

06:51and feeling confident that I could go out on any stage around the world and sing my heart out and

06:57know that nobody's going to be, you know, making jokes about my weight. Um, you know,

07:03even make, just making any say, any negative comments, of course, there's going to come with

07:07some negative.

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