TonyGirl
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6/11/2016 6:08:39 AM
TonyGirl in the house, yay!
Hi everyone! Allow me to introduce myself:
I'm an alternative rock artist from Korso, Finland ( Northern Europe, Scandinavia in case you've no idea where I am ).
The artist name of mine often confuses people: Is TonyGirl male or a female? Transgender maybe? Well, Tonygirl was originally the nickname that was given to me by my dad. To clear that up. The fact that it confuses some, is fine. Some things need not to be clear. This is about music, and if something TonyGirl is it's genrefluid. Meaning, that the genre of the music is not the point either, it can too change. I still tried my best to choose some here at IndieMusicPeople to describe the songs for you but I'm not sure I got them right.
The name also these points: Some music is underestimated and called " music for girls ". I'm against all underestimating and I'm a supporter of all human rights. " I love The Spice Girls and the nineties, so may the tonygirlpower be with you! Rrriot girl, maybe? Eve Delvecchio got some Courtney Love vibes, some have got some Garbage vibes. Dunno about them but it's cool.
The music and the music videos are about subjects like ' depression ', ' anxiety ' , ' heartbreak ', and ' loneliness ' and are meant to support people dealing with those issues. They are a result of my flow that echoes from the experience on the mentioned issues.
I like to do music video's and I'm not necessarily in them myself. I cast people to play characters, and do the filming, directing, editing and stuff. Like for my first music video for the song ' Murdering Lights ' I have Anssi in it who is playing the part of the depressed citizen of Korso. It was super fun to do, and the Making Of video I made in the process still makes me laugh a lot. It looks like we have no idea what we are doing and there's no way it'll ever be done or end up good. It's filled with bloopers and weird conversation ( subtitled in english ), check that out if you wanna be like wtf, lol.
The first single ' Whatever Happens ' was released on Halloween 2015 and that song is a garage rock, alternative rock type of a song with loads of empowering ' tonygirlpower ' in it. If your world came crashing down and you need to let go of things and re-build your world, it's a song for you. It's also about not letting any haters stop you from doing your thing.
The 2nd single, * Murdering Lights ' is a smooth, haunting, alternative rock song with some grunge in it and it's about apathy and depression. The moment, when you feel like you've ruined everything and wish that some day you'd get out of that state of mind. It's about the lights that change and makes some people with mental health problems suicidal. The cold, murdering spring light.
At the studio I didn't want to shout the song ' Murdering Lights '. I wanted to be calm, calm and depressing. Smooth. To tell things the way they are in my mind, and give them space. To be haunting, like the death that silently comes and strangles you with it's cold fingers. I also wanted that the choruses give a hint of hope, but I guess they are still dark to most. The feedback tells that those who have experience on depression understand the feeling in the song and that's the best feedback I can get. It has touched people, even made some hidden memories to come out and locked doors of the mind open, so it's a powerful song.
Is it powerful to you also that's another question, I'd love to know, so feel free to comment and thanks for introducing IndieMusicPeople to me, Eve! :) It's interesting to be here.
With love, TonyGirl
p.s: Looks like my artist page is a mess with text going over another text but I have no idea how to fix it so, I'm sorry if it bothers you. I'm also not familiar with how does everything here work so now when someone added ' Whatever Happens ' to a station I have no idea how to thank that person so I'll say THANK YOU here and have a nice day! I'll learn in time!
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6/13/2016 10:03:05 AM
PS.
Depression sucks. I know from whence I speak.
Try to find stuff to do... me, I'm always making records, much as I can.
That helps.
Basically, if you're more depressed than the rest of the world
it's usually because you're paying more attention.
That means you're an artist, so you have to apply that, you can't
just sit with being able to feel the world's pain as well as your own.
You make records with that. You have to. No other way.
That is the case for me anyway.
~L
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