What you get is what you see with soulful pop newcomer ElahHale. We talked moments big and small, touring with OrionSun, and her new debut album “Room 206”
Yeah, I have been trying to do a lot of cooking and planting, living my best life, and then it all sort of falls short, which is disappointing. But I'm making it work.Room 206 was my sophomore dorm room in college. My best friend and I lived together, and we sort of cheated the system to get one of the better, if not the best, rooms on campus. And it was such a special place for me. My whole final year of college, it was really the room where relationships ended and relationships started.
MTV News: That was at Bard, and you were studying theater there. Do you feel like that impacted your music at all?At first I wanted to be a Gender and Sexuality Studies and Arabic double-major my freshman year, and then I was terrible at Arabic, so I wanted to, like, rethink everything. So then I tried the Bard theater program, and it was so amazing and the people were amazing. I was doing playwriting and performance art, and there was puppetry.
MTV News: You’re signed to Interscope now, but you were previously recording music yourself and releasing it on Bandcamp. How has the production process changed in that time?Both ways of doing it are important and special, and I think I'd practice both ways still. But now, it really feels like I've given myself the gift of time. It's funny saying that in the midst of a quarantine, but being in the studio now, I can spend two days on a song.
MTV News: What is the one thing you'd like people to know about you as an artist, or maybe just as a person?I really stand by my decisions and my music. Because social media and everything is all intertwined, it often feels that people are personas. I put a huge part of myself, if not all of myself, into what I'm doing and the music I'm making, and it really is art that is a reflection of me.
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