.oneruel talked to us about his rapid rise to fame and new EP FreeTime: 'I like to take the very small and try making it into something that could be relatable to large amounts of people'
, Ruel lamented waning friendships and celebrated the wobbly-kneed bliss of a new crush ; meanwhile,shoulders regret, heartbreak, and even a little FOMO , as he hones in on the uneasy balance between pursuing his dream and staying close with his friends back home.
. I guess my ability to write has gotten better. I've really wanted to have my influences come across more. [For], I was in the sessions, I was writing the songs, but I didn't have a creative direction. So I was really just saying yes to anything anyone else was saying. I was like, yeah, let's do that. Then I'd just write to something that still related to me, but musically, I didn't really know that I wanted.
MTV News: You've come so far in such a short period of time. Are there ever moments where you're wishing that the trajectory you're on would settle down a bit?"Hard Sometimes" seems to point at that.To me, songwriting is exaggerating to an extent. On that song, yeah, I was feeling down.
MTV News: When did you realize, like,"Oh, music: This is something that I can do." Was it at a show? Or did it happen in a different environment?It was really when I made"Don't Tell Me." We got the final cut back — it was being produced by M-Phazes — and recorded it. And that was the first time I was like, this actually sounds really good. I'm proud of it. I felt so shocked that something could come out like that. It was so raw and it was coming from me.
In a live setting, I feel like the biggest show that I played ever — well, back then, it was the biggest show — I played at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney in my hometown. That was like 2,500 people. That was the time, I walked out onstage — it was so huge for me. I could see my friends all in the front row. A little crazy, a bunch of crazy things, and then at the end of the show, my manager came out with a plaque saying that my song"Younger" just went gold.
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