What's up guys it's HRVY and you're listening to ICRT FM100.
Hey, ladies and gents, watching, listening to ICRT,
we are reaching out once again to an artist from a different part of the world, and today
we once again go to the UK, actually, it's HRVY joining us on ICRT. What's up?
I'm, good, bro. How are you?
I'm very well, here in Taiwan. Taiwan is the safe heaven amidst the pandemic.
Uh, how's everything over there in the UK?
Oh, we're on lockdown right now. We've been pretty hard hit, you know, um,
it's been pretty serious, but I feel like it's starting to ease down a little bit now and you know
the people that are catching coronavirus, you know, they're going down as well.
So I think we'll be okay.
I think not much longer in lockdown and then we'll be out and we'll be back to normal, hopefully.
Fingers crossed.
Yeah, fingers crossed. Toes crossed. It's good to hear that.
But recently, you actually came to our neck of the woods.
You almost came to Taiwan, but you were in Indonesia and the Philippines, right?
The Philippines, yeah, I love going to those parts of the world, I love Asia, love the Philippines, it was so cool.
I've been there a few times now.
Um, but I've never been to Taiwan if I'm honest, you know,
and I really want to come. I really want to come to Taiwan.
Well, okay, let's figure out what your favorite food types are and we'll see if Taiwan is the right place for you.
Okay, okay. Um, I love
Okay, I like rice. I love chicken. I also love - I love beef. I love...
Pretty much, just pretty much all meats if I'm honest, I love meat so yeah.
Well, okay, you're pretty much sold on rice and chicken already.
Do you know, or of course you wouldn't know this but okay, so here in Taiwan our delivery system, when they go by categories?
They have like fast food category, you know Thai food, Korean food...
One of the categories says, and I kid you not, it just says chicken. Because we eat chicken so much that we -
Just chicken?
Just chicken.
Well, I would be absolutely fine living in Taiwan because chicken is my favorite thing.
In the UK, we have a place called Nando's?
Yep.
It's amazing. It's just chicken and it's just great. So yeah, I'll be fine living in Taiwan.
Alright, well looking forward to you being here
and of course, you now have uh,
I mean 2020 is a big year for you - actually starting in a couple of years ago
you know, you now have what, like almost five million followers on IG, almost four on TikTok?
How do you feel now that like there are millions of people who know who you are around the world?
Uh, I mean, it's pretty crazy. Um, you know, what, when people ask me this, you know,
I never really think about like the followers or numbers, but it's not until someone does,
you know, say you've got millions of people that have clicked follow and actually seen your face, it's like, yeah.
Yeah, that's actually quite a lot of people actually, um, but uh, no,
It's really really cool and I'm very grateful and like you said I've been doing this for -
I've been doing it since I was 13. So a long time, I'm 21 now, so -
we're slowly getting there. We're slowly still building everything. Everything's a climb.
But no, I love having the following and it's really cool to have fans, especially around the world.
I would never ever have imagined having fans in Taiwan or anywhere, so yeah it's cool.
Yeah, and I love the way you put it, you know, I mean modesty is important in artistry, right?
So essentially people who love your music - it's basically millions of people who are connected through your music,
through this platform that you offer,
and you give back a lot, because recently you released a song called "ME BECAUSE OF YOU",
and apparently that song is inspired by a fan.
Yeah, you know, we were doing a writing camp and I was checking through my Instagram just looking at comments because I do,
And one of the fans commented "I'm only me because of you" and I just love that line.
Like it just stuck with me inside my head?
And, you know,
we're in the writing session, I was like guys, let's scrap what we're doing.
Let's put it to the side, like because I've just seen this line and it's amazing and we've got to use it somehow.
And they saw it and heard it and we wrote the song that day,
and I was like, this genuinely came from a fan and it's uh,
and it's cool because I'm only me because of them, if that makes sense.
So it was like, a really nice little moment?
And I've gone back to try and find the comment and I literally can't find it anywhere.
Like disappeared, so it was meant to be man.
I can't - I've tweeted out a bit I've asked who the person was,
but nope, nowhere to be seen so.
Really! This fan just disappeared!
Gone, which is really really really really weird.
So I have everything to thank to that person but I have no idea who it was.
Oh that's crazy. Well I mean hey, if you can't pinpoint a person then everyone is that person for you, right?
Exactly.
So you do,
You do Instagram a lot, you do a TikTok a lot.
Um, what are some of the most embarrassing things you've done on social media?
Oh god.
Uh, I mean if you go back on my instagram like a good couple of years?
Most of my feed is embarrassing like I wasn't even trying to be embarrassing. It was just embarrassing looking back.
If you go back like 2014?
There are some horrendous pictures of me.
Um, really bad singing clips,
really bad, like I would love to get them up and show you but I'd be scrolling for ages.
But there are some really bad haircuts.
Um, I used to do this thing on my hair where I used to literally have it like,
straight up, but like yours looks really good because it's kind of like back and over and -
Right, slicked back.
Yeah, it's like yeah, mine kind of just went up vertically.
And, it was just so bad and I thought I looked so good as well. That's why it's really embarrassing.
So, that -
You know, there's not any specific moments. Just most of my upbringing on Instagram is very embarrassing.
Yeah, but it really depends on the era of that kind of hairstyle, right?
I mean in the 80s David Bowie was rocking the whole you know, it's a different -
Yeah, I suppose, no I get that, I mean times will change, I mean I'm sure
in a couple years time, in a couple months I'll look back at,
you know, this, and be like, what was I doing?
Okay, so on Instagram, uh recently you basically showed everyone your house, from, you know,
your car who whom you named by the way?
Um, do you wanna share with everyone how you named your car?
Yes, so it's a BMW.
So, um, it is...
Britney
Milly
Williams.
Yeah I've gotta remember it, I get confused in my head, but we just call her Britney.
And uh, yeah, it's actually one of my friends helped me name it as well actually.
Yeah, but um, she's a great car. I love my car.
Love, love it, love it.
William sounds like a very, you know, established name like a very common last name, but also one with some,
you know, history to it, like from a big family.
Right? So, uh is Britney like,
kind of an uppity kind of girl or is she like, rowdy?
She's um, Britney's rowdy, but she could be very, she's from a classy family, do you know what I mean?
Exactly.
She's got a classy upbringing, but sometimes she just wants to let loose a little bit and go a bit wild,
so that's why I named her Britney.
She's a little bit on the edge.
But yeah, Milly Williams is a bit more regal. It's a bit more -
Yeah, and it is a beautiful car, by the way. I am envious.
And I'm envious of your two dogs!
What was it - Bear and Teddy?
Teddy and Bear! Teddy and Bear.
Yeah, so Teddy's like um, the older one, um, and I've had him for quite a long time now, um,
he's such a cool dog.
Sometimes you don't know whether he's gonna attack you though, in like a cute way.
Um, but yeah, I love him and we've recently got Bear.
Um, I think last Christmas, so, yeah December.
And, such a cool dog. Bear is the coolest little dog ever.
Um, but he's recently learned how to bark?
Oh no.
And honestly,
Well, I can tell you it's the most annoying thing you've ever heard in your life.
Cuz it's not even like, a grunty bark but like a yap yap yap yap.
Yeah, cuz -
He just goes on for ages, and it's just, oh god.
He's a Pomeranian mix, right?
Yeah, he's a Pomeranian. I think he's like a mini Pomeranian. I'm not too sure.
Yeah.
But he's healthy, he's good, he's okay. He's just really annoying and he wins everything.
Well, at least you don't have to invest in alarm clocks when you've got him around I suppose.