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hey taiwan it's ellie deway and i'm
chatting with joey chow on icrtfm100
hello i'm joey you know and today we're
chatting with someone who absolutely
blew up last year and she continues to
do so this year right now she's racked
up over
470 million streams on spotify for her
song middle of the night and yes today
we're so glad to chat with ellie douay
what's up what's up joey hi thank you so
much for having me today and thank you
for everyone for listening so happy to
be here thank you so much for being here
with us because uh as far as i
understand i know it's a little tacky
but it is middle of the night there
right yeah we are hitting 7 p.m here in
a minute so we're getting there
wait so that means you are on the west
coast or where are you right now exactly
exactly i'm on the west coast but you're
originally born in alabama right correct
correct yeah i'm a southern belle do you
think that southerness has added to your
music over the years have you tried to
put that into your music over the years
oh yeah oh yeah there's so much um soul
in the south there's so much flavor in
the south yeah
so all of that the blues rock it all
originated down there so
it's you know it's just in my roots i
know you come from a very musical family
as well right your dad is a musician
yeah yeah i got a whole family of music
lovers so i grew up just being around
just the love of music you know and the
spirit of music all the time late nights
people jamming family members and
singing in front of people you know just
the love of it really did i hear that
right late nights like how late does it
go these jam sessions well my parents
growing up we we uh on the island we had
beach houses and so they would play
music either on the on the deck or
underneath and it would be all the
family members around they would have
dinner and everything and cook and then
they would play music around each other
you know just like coming into communion
and the kids you know would stay up late
on the weekends and play and dance and
sing until they were tired and then we'd
go pass out you first picked up your
your guitar when you were very young
right so of course you start singing
when you're very young you're a very
talented songwriter so are there
songs or lyrics from that period of
ellie that you haven't produced yet and
you might want to produce now or are you
looking back like oh i don't know if
that's a bit cringy i'm pretty sure i
have my first recording i do i do have
my very first song it's recorded that i
ever wrote really
is it produced
and released yeah my dad produced it
when i was a kid he would like we had a
little recorder
and he he would get in the closet
because it had good soundproofing and we
would get in the closet and he would
record me singing the my songs and so
that's at my first studio what did you
sing about what's really crazy it was
very
deep things that i hadn't experienced so
it was about a girl that had gotten
pregnant at a young age it was a father
that was a drunk and it was
um it was wa it was wild to be honest
like very like
deep
concepts where you're like my my dad was
i remember him just being like
what like but it was so beautiful
it was so beautiful he was just like
what it well i don't understand but like
wow
like you have something really special
here but where did this come from you
know and i just uh
it all came from my heart you know like
i just feel like i've always been a very
sensitive kid with a
deep
deep well of emotion and feeling for
other people
and so i think that
maybe from things that i had seen in
life whether it been on tv or in real
life
those things i took those and i wrote
about them because they moved me deeply
you know for the fans is it possible to
find this recording oh i definitely have
it i mean we can definitely release it
for people one day i i think that would
be really cool and my parents would love
that they would love for me to release
it you know because they are such a
they've been a fan since day one yeah
for sure um i'm guessing you don't have
a title for yeah but please let people
know when you release this song i would
really love to hear it absolutely
absolutely so you've had a pretty crazy
couple of years um with middle of the
night um i i did hear or at least i saw
a youtube short of it i think where you
said you originally wrote it for the
weekend but obviously a lot of fans
thought that it was amazing that you
decided to take it and sing it yourself
are you possibly gonna think about
calling him up and be like hey let's do
a remix um we've definitely tried to
make that happen it hasn't happened yet
but yeah i'm i'm such a huge fan of the
weekend that
you know i'm just like maybe one day but
either way i'm a fan always okay i'm
gonna rally everyone viewing or
listening to this interview to manifest
this for you okay hopefully he's gonna
get into your dm and be like let's do
this together thank you i know your
producer andrew wells for middle of the
night is incredibly talented he's worked
with a lot of very powerful female
voices as well you know like
meghan trainor bb rexella halsey and
even celine dion did he have a way to in
the studio to bring out your very unique
voice like what was his you know the
amazing thing about andrew is that he
just is and by being just who he is and
being his mind
he's the coolest most chillest guy ever
he doesn't force anything but he knows
exactly what he needs to do and what
sounds to use not every producer it has
the specific gift of being able to be so
good at choosing sound like the way
their sound design but andrew is so
gifted in his sound design his personal
design that um
it's like every time we work together
the song is just going to be on a level
that's up here because of just how
gifted he is so it sounds like there
might be more collaborations with him
right oh yeah pieces the song that i
just released oh that was him oh yeah
and my name is well as well that's
coming out very soon um i so i have
another single coming he produced that
one as well okay i love pieces by the
way it came out in june this year
everybody if you haven't already
listened to it um it's about uh
well it's about heartbreaks but it's
also about protecting yourselves from
heartbreaks right from falling into
pieces and really ellie you've been
blessed with a lot of great producer
friends who collaborated with you
griffin right um andrew wells of course
and medusa with the new song bad
memories it's also a jam i don't
understand though because between medusa
um james charter and fastboy there's
like potentially six people who are
working with you on the same track how
does that process work to be honest it
it's one of those things where when i
heard the song
it was uh done before
i
um
like i wasn't in the room with them when
i wrote it right they were
they were in they had created the
original idea
they sent it out they sent it to me when
i heard i said this is crazy i gotta
jump on it and so that's how that that's
how that particular song went and uh i
just knew that it was gonna do so well
and it was such a vibe and i was like
okay let's jump on this and let's see
what we can make happen let's see if i
sound good so we did it and it worked
and now it's out and uh yeah i hope that
everyone's enjoying it i love the music
video yeah
be sure to check it out check it out
it's because it's got that weird eerie
dystopian post-apocalyptic bite it's
crazy so go check it out and i think
your voice is perfect for a narrative
like that also medusa is very good at
making that kind of doom and gloom kind
of vibe and it fits well with this whole
thing with your voice as well
so you just mentioned there's a new
single coming up what can you tell us
about this new single so the next single
is called talk
okay
and
it's very much
like 80s
but
like stevie nicks
kind of vibes
um edgy like
i'm trying to think like pat benatar
like it's it's it's got some it's
interesting like it's gonna be it's
gonna be really really cool that's all i
can say right now
you will be hearing it very soon and you
can you can describe to yourself what
you think of it okay okay i think that's
a new direction for you because stevie
nicks packed benetar a little bit of
rock and roll a little bit of blues and
it's got a whole lot of that soul and
raspy powerful female vocal oh yeah do
you have a maybe a whole project coming
up or are you still in a singles game
right oh yeah the project's going to be
coming out uh late september nice and
it's a big one uh it's a kind of a
rising from the ashes a rebirth
and there's gonna be a lot of there's
just a lot of
love and energy and pain and
like
just
being
i don't even know like just cut like
dying and to be reborn again like that
is all coming with this
project so
there will be a lot in it so looking
forward to this and we hope everything
is a success until uh with this album
drops we are looking forward to the new
single called talk everybody go check
out the new mv's from ellie douay and
thank you so much for joining us here
today oh thank you so much joey i will
see you next time thank you everyone for
listening and listening i love you guys
thank you