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hi i'm baron olivia and i'm chatting
with joey on icrtfm100
hi i'm joey and today we're going to be
speaking with an uber talented young
singer songwriter from the uk her name
is baron olivia and we have her over
webcam right now hello baron how are you
doing hey i'm good thank you excited to
be chatting to you yeah you too uh baron
has been releasing a string of singles
mostly on her youtube page
since the beginning of 2020 there are
some songs that i really enjoy listening
to like black magic following up hurts
so good history read my mind but she
recently dropped a five song ep and the
latest song that i have been loving and
digging is also the title track of this
ep called early hours of the am
and today we're going to talk about this
ep and also about upcoming projects but
before we get into any of that baron
tonight
is it true that you're gonna be um
opening or um singing on the same stage
as james arthur um i cannot believe it
i've literally i'm so excited i can't
wait i couldn't believe that you were
gonna take our interview today because
if i were you and i have such a big gig
tonight i would be jittery the whole day
so how do you feel right now gingery is
a good word yeah definitely feeling that
but i'm like
it's good though because like i feel
like if i just kind of get on with the
days i usually would you know i'll worry
about it later
but i james has been so supportive of me
like he saw a tick tock that i duetted
with him
like ages ago and he's just been like
championing me and supporting me ever
since so when he had this show he asked
me to um
open for him and i was just like oh my
goodness yes okay and by the way uh the
venue is london's lafayette and um it's
a very nice venue for acoustics because
i think it's
the whole venue is all made of like
pinewood or something right yeah i've
never been i literally i don't know i
think it's new it's quite new isn't it
yeah i've heard some good things about
this place uh but as a performer
what's your dream venue like have you
ever thought of like what is the end
goal like wembley stadium o2 arena when
i was really young i was watching you
know the justin bieber never say never
documentary
yeah yeah yeah i've seen it and um
there's like a whole thing in that
documentary where he sells out madison
square garden and like i've just had it
in my head ever since i saw that as a
kid like i need to sell out madison
square garden new york mm-hmm i've got a
ton of family in new york as well like
my dad is a new yorker and we have he
has eight brothers and sisters so it's
like loads of aunts loads of cousins and
uncles so it's like half a venue will be
my family
that's good to know you got half of the
venue covered already yeah exactly
exactly but this whole journey in music
for you started
it must be when you were really young
like i heard somewhere that you picked
up your first guitar uh when you were
what like in your early teens 13. yeah i
mean i was always writing writing was
always something that came supernatural
to me i was one of those kids that like
kept diaries and stuff and like
i was always writing poems i absolutely
fell in love with poetry and just
storytelling and i would write in the
back of like my chemistry books and get
detentions i'm not playing paying
attention in class but um
the singing came later i think that was
just purely confidence thing um but once
um i learned i literally just picked up
my brother's guitar one christmas i
think i was like 13 or 14. and um taught
myself a few chords
lent from taylor swift songs and then
started like turning the
poems that i was writing into songs and
then i just kind of made okay so wait 13
or 14. you're 22 now so that would have
been
eight nine years ago was did you learn
anything from taylor's red elbow oh my
gosh i think treacherous was the first
song i ever learned yeah yeah that was
my first because the red album is my
absolute favorite like it's it's got
it's got a soft spot for me i love that
album like all too well
and like state of grace
red i'm obsessed with those songs so um
yeah definitely just learn a ton of
taylor swift songs on the guitar yeah
actually i when i listen to your music i
have a feeling that you've got to be a
taylor fan but there's also a little bit
of
maybe
i don't know pink maybe
in the music that i hear no one said
that to me before but i'm so happy you
did because i love pink i grew up on
like avril lavigne pink christine
aguilera alanis morissette so like yeah
like all of those like 2000s albums so
pink's misunderstood album is like my
favorite thing ever yes out of curiosity
when's your birthday 29 august so i just
had it so i'm actually 23 now oh happy
belated birthday and yes you are 23 now
my goodness does that make you do you
know about your own horoscope i don't
know much like
do you mean like signs and stuff like i
know i'm a virgo yeah that makes you a
virgo you know virgos are like okay let
me explain here in asia especially here
in taiwan if you ever come here
it's a great icebreaker like a great
conversation opener and virgos are
supposed to be perfectionists do you
find a little perfectionist in you my
god yes
yes i think it's the one thing as well
that i need to like
chill out with
like
um
it's just like learning when enough is
enough like this is good like you're
fine like the the song is fine excuse me
like
just roll with it because i feel like
you can always tweak you can tweak stuff
forever that's what i hear and uh you
know what i hear a lot about like
artists singer-songwriters who are
perfectionists is that if you sit on a
song too long you never feel like you
can come finish it so when it comes to
uh early hours of the am
how long did you sit on it or did you
did your producer have to go like baron
look just get it out like we need to
just you know stop looking at this i
mean
it's funny you know because when we're
writing the songs the writing process is
always really fast for me like i'm quite
we're quite quick like it just kind of
flows out but then after once we've
written it that's when it's like i start
overthinking stuff
but um
yeah it's funny actually because all of
the songs bar won on this ep i wrote
earlier this year
and um so we have not been sitting on
them for long which is good because then
like you listen to a demo
for so long and then you just you can't
hit past it so um yeah
the they all actually flowed really well
the one that took the longest was hurt
again oh really uh why yeah what took it
the longest
i think it was just trying to find that
like happy medium between like all of
the big guitars and keeping it still
quite pop and everything and then um i
remember having like a listening party
on zoom with my manager and the
producers and everything
oh we literally like it was a listening
session to sign off on it and then i
literally was like um
no we need to change the post call right
here so that postcard is hooked it's
like
that wasn't like that until the last two
seconds
it was
something completely different yeah if i
were your producer i would hate you for
that
i think you did temporarily very good
now okay well so now for the last part
of our conversation today baron i am
going to really stump on that
perfectionist part of you and see if i
can't get you to be like bothered
because i've heard that you're a big
lover of pizza as food my gosh yes okay
wait what's your favorite pizza then i
kind of tend to just go for like the
margarita to be honest like you can't
really go wrong with the margaritas or
like a veggie one if i feel like being
like
adventurous
i get you i get you so here's the thing
on this side of asia there are a lot of
interesting toppings that we put on
pizzas okay and out of like from one to
ten i want you to like give me like a
bothered meter like how much does this
bother you okay i love this okay so
first up um how do you feel about a
shrimp and lobster pizza that makes
sense how much does it bother us
yeah
hey as long as it's not like super fishy
jeremy yeah so you're okay with seafood
yeah i'm okay with seafood oh then
you're gonna have a grand time when you
come to taiwan all right the next one is
um what about ramen or noodle pizza what
how can you have a little pizza what
literal ramen noodles with slices of
meat on it oh okay just the noodles um
that make that that does slightly bother
me i'd try it
but um
that doesn't i'm gonna have to do that
for with that one that and i feel like a
four is generous yeah
then there's like two different meals in
one right so
what about a um do you know what bobas
are um bubble teas oh my goodness yes i
live for those do you guys have that in
the uk we have like bubble magic like
bubble tea like around london and when
whenever i find one i'm i go straight to
it i'm obsessed really okay well bubble
tea is basically one of the you know
most well-known national exports of
taiwan like it was invented here in
taiwan so but here's the question how do
you feel about a boba pizza as in having
tapioca on your pizza it would be a
sweet pizza i suppose that would be a
sweet pizza and quite chewy that's a
hella chewy pizza
i can't my brain can't imagine it like
at all
i would so i would so be down to try is
it like a dessert kind of pizza or is it
like a main pizza it is kind of like a
dessert pizza like when you have like
banana slices on pizza like it would be
kind of like that wait you have banana
slices on pizza oh you haven't tried
that banana slices and chocolate like
molten chocolate how do you feel about
that okay it's like hold up there's no
tomato or like cheese right it's
literally just like the pizza base it's
like very thin dough
as a as a crust okay i can i can do that
because like
like savory sweet pancakes makes sense
so i can understand doing that with
pizza
okay okay
um okay it's good to find out about that
because i think baron's gonna have a
good time when she comes to taiwan but
this last one might bother you okay
how do you feel about
pig blood and coriander pizza i mean i'm
vege i'm pescatarian vegetarian so that
that was my go no no go for me
i did not know that okay i would not
have put that on the list if i hadn't
known that so a no-no
oh my goodness i did not know that was a
thing
is that like black pudding it is it is
like what you guys have in the uk right
basically
but with coriander
yeah i mean that's something like my dad
would order that like that's totally up
my dad's dream great so we have
something for your dad and something for
you no just gotta find something for the
rest of the family and we're good to go
all right so today we had baron olivia
right here and we hope you had fun
tonight singing for james or scene with
james arthur and hopefully soon you can
sail over to asia i would love that
thank you so much