photo credits: Maureen Béguin
Loose T.
Loose T. is originally from Paris and has spent the last 8 years living in London and Edinburgh, but she lives in France again now, sings for the people who will be happier at the end of her songs, and shouts for the people who will be angrier at the end of her songs. If you’re not one of those people, do yourself a favour, listen to something else, she says. (Anger is Love. x)
Her first release was "Brexit" by the end of the last year (worth to listen as well), now she's here with her latest release called "No Label" and it sounds pretty great!!
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No Label
No Label von Loose T. ist auf dem Markt und ich muss sagen bzw. schreiben, dass ich begeistert bin. Begeistert von rockigen Klängen die zwischen Pop und Punk hin- und herspringen und den Lyrics die hier genau das reflektieren was wir so oft beobachten. "People, they want to belong in a world that puts them in boxes, People, they cannot belong in a world that puts them in boxes", singt sie und trifft exakt den Punkt.
Das ewige hin und her, kaum noch überschaubar, man will bewertet werden ohne selbst zu bewerten oder dazugehören aber kein Teil davon zu sein. Nahezu jeden Tag begegnet man Menschen und ohne sie zu kennen werden sie bereits von uns in eine Schublade gesteckt, aber warum? Und eben das macht diesen Song so hörenswert, der Track ist einfach ehrlich und regt noch dazu zum Mitsingen, Mitschreien oder wenn man will Mittanzen an. Ein ernstes Thema musikalisch perfekt verpackt und ausgeliefert von Loose T.. So we have to say Achtung: listen carefully and think about it.
Das Beste kommt zum Schluss, denn wir hatten auch die Chance der Künstlerin ein paar Fragen zu stellen, nachfolgend das lesenswerte Interview. Thanks for your time!
The Interview
Loose T. is..?
Loose T. is the very angry version of me - she's who I am when I need a good rant and can't stand the state of things any more. My name is Lucie and my friends would use Luce as a nickname; my surname starts with a T, so Loose T. came pretty easily. I also liked the puns and the silliness of the name - and everything that the word "loose" can mean. By the way, you can buy a Loose Tee here if you want: https://looset.bandcamp.com/merch/loose-tees ;) I've never been very good at expressing anger, and Loose T. gives absolutely zero fucks about anything (including having a cool name) which is incredibly liberating.
Who inspired you to make music?
I've been playing music since I was a child and it's completely part of who I am now, but as a cellist, I mostly played sad or very dramatic stuff. Loose T. was born of the anger I felt after Brexit (I kept having this little voice in my head shouting bre-bre-bre-brexit, which became my first single) and the build-up of realisations of everything that's going wrong around me.
What or who inspired you to "No Label"?
Every time I fill in an Equal Opportunities form I feel like I'm lying somewhere - I feel between the boxes and like none actually fit who/what I am (apart maybe from "Prefer Not to Say") - I guess this is where it came from. Being angry at people trying to label me when they don't know me, and being angry at myself for labelling people before getting to know them.
What is your creative process like?
I often get a chorus in my head, then bits of sentences, and I keep hearing them in my head over and over. I'll record bits on my phone as well so I don't forget. Then I'll send those to Emma, my producer, and if she says "aaaaaaah I love it hahaha" that's usually a good sign.
Sometimes I also keep these bits for months until they come together into a song. Once they do, I will create a very bad version on Logic Pro and get very excited by the singing/songwriting side of things but bored of the music production. That's when Emma does her magic and makes it sound really cool (there's a lot of improv in and out of the studio, trial and error, and laughter).
Who would you most like to collaborate with?
To be honest I love the people I'm collaborating with - what I'd like is time and space to collaborate with them more: be at the studio for several days and take the time to work together, listen, improvise, try things out, leave a track and then go back to it. That being said, if Dolly Parton wanted to feature on my 9-to-5 -inspired song about period pain, I think I'd say yes. Stromae also has the talent of making better any artist he works with.
What is the most useful talent you have?
Somehow this is the hardest question to answer....cooking?
If you could change anything in the past, what would it be?
Since I can pick anything: colonisation. Most of our current problems are linked to the inequalities born of colonisation and the destruction of lands that came with it.
If this is too big a thing to change (what would our world look like? literally everything would be different), I'd probably go for stopping fossil fuel companies from lobbying when they started research about climate change in the 1970s/80s. Which would mean effective climate policies in place from the 1980s onwards.
How do you feel the Internet (especially Social Media platforms) has impacted the music business?
With social media, you're expected to be your own PR manager and a social media expert, otherwise you can't hope to "make it" as an artist. Loose T. gives zero fucks so she probably won't make it as she can't be bothered to be good on social media. We'll see! I guess the good thing is that you're more in control (but I'm not even that sure).
The Internet has allowed us to discover artists we wouldn't have otherwise (go listen to Xiuhtezcatl!) but it's also creating a class of superstars who have all the power over the algorithm and make it quite hard to be "in-between". But thanks to people like you, it's not as bad as it could be? Basically, pros and cons, and I don't know what it was like before the Internet. As someone who listens to music, I love streaming, as a musician I say fuck streaming, go buy music from Bandcamp (which is also the Internet, I know).
What’s next for you?
Well, as Loose T. is fuelled by anger and given the state of the world, I'm pretty sure she won't run out of energy for a while. I like mixing genres (going from punk to pop to rap to rock) and I have a few songs up my sleeve. I can't wait to get on stage and shout a bit. Much more fun than therapy.
