Avant-R&B artist oliveosun tells us about the creative and romantic upheaval that went into her excellent new album, 'Girl in the Half Pearl.' 'It kind of deals with what comes with being in love, when you don’t really know what love is.'
in October of that year, writing and recording for a year and some change. From her artist residency at London’s Laylow in April 2022 to her eventual breakup later that summer, she found herself feeling alone for long stretches of time, with only music providing solace in moments. “This is like the first time that I wrote something that I’m kind of still dealing with, versus writing from a perspective of it being in the past,” she says. “[That year] was so shitty.
Liv.e handles the writing duties on each of the album’s 17 tracks, giving outsiders a glimpse of the turmoil she was going through. The specificity remains, but this time marked with the anguish that she felt fueled her creative process, tinging her lyrics with darkness and melancholy . “I started to realize that there’s a lowkey sick part of myself,” Liv.e says. “I was hurting myself emotionally, or dealing with certain things I shouldn’t have been dealing with, and it really does feed the ideas and the mindset. I don’t know if it’s healthy or not. I’m still sad about shit that’s transpired, but the difference is, I’ve been able to be alone and process what’s happened to me.
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