Faerybabyy is a singer, songwriter and composer that thanks to the unique style of her music videos and how catchy her songs are, has reached a certain notoriety in the music scene. With the release of the “Lucky Star” EP, her song “Orange Soda” and the video that went along with the releases, her music started to get viral on YouTube. From there, the rest of her songs started to get listened. But only attributing her rise to that would be a mistake, since for the past 4 years she has been releasing singles and finding her own path into the music world.
A firm believer, she took the success of “Lucky Star” as a sing form God that motivated her to keep moving forward. After this EP, she started the year with the release of her debut album “Jabbermouth”, composed by incredible singles as darlin, connie and desperate exgf, with the post-punk influence that characterizes her music and being influencie by bands such as The Cure. Jabbermouth is an album with cohesive sound, full of energy and joy. Listening to it is such a pleasant experience that along with the up-beat of her sound and the lyrics full of melancholy, worthy of a hopeless romantic.
Updated 20/05/2025
Recently we saw that you posted on Instagram that the song Orange Soda changed your life. Can you tell us the story behind that song and the impact that it had on your life?
Faerybabyy: Well, yeah, I mean, I guess it changed my life because that was the first song that people really started listening to, you know? Like, um, I always… I had like a goal last year which seemed impossible — to hit like 100,000 monthly listeners. But like, statistically speaking, it wasn’t even possible to do that I had been making music to three hundred, and then it was seven hundred, and then it was twelve hundred monthly listeners — like it was never much.
And then last year, it dipped into like, I think close to like twenty thousand, and by the time Orange Soda — like literally within the month after Orange Soda came out — I feel like I hit like a hundred thousand monthly listeners. And that was my prayer for like a lot of years.
So what’s the story behind that song?
Faerybabyy: Orange Soda is like actually kind of an inappropriate song, but nobody would know that. I don’t really talk about inappropriate things, I guess, because I’m a lady, but I had… it’s a euphemism for something else. And yeah, I just, I really liked someone and I thought they really liked me, but then they were kind of… I don’t know.
I just — I kind of went through a weird heartbreak situation for a long time. I think I was kind of in a flop era. And for whatever reason, just — I’m really good at being alone now and I really enjoy being alone. I have no interest in anything romantic, probably for the rest of my life. But at the time, for whatever reason — my grandfather just died — so I kind of was in like a chasing mode, because I just wanted to feel some kind of closeness with someone. And I’m very embarrassed that I chased somebody, actually for the first time in my life pretty much.
But I was just having a hard time. I’m not proud of it. But either way, it was a euphemism for something else, and I was just really sad about a boy, is all it comes down to. Embarrassing stuff, you know.
Do you consider yourself a romantic person?
Faerybabyy: I think always, yes. Now, not anymore. But I’ve been a hopeless romantic my entire life — until the last couple of years. And now I’m something like asexual I think — and I’ve always had like some asexual tendencies, kind of — but not like fully asexual or anything. I don’t really know the words to describe it. But I’m very, like, not into that stuff until I’m really in love. But even so, like now, I just… I have no even desire to be in love. Like the idea of it scares me now.
But it’s not like I’m hooking up with people. I’ve never done that before in my entire life. I’ve never hooked up with somebody randomly, casually. I think that’s demonic. I’m just like — that’s so bad for you — spiritually and emotionally and physically unsafe. But I have no desire to even find a husband right now. If I’m gonna date someone, it’s only because they’re going to be my husband. But I don’t even want to have to deal with doing that yet. I’m like, I’ll just wait.
I think God will just, like, plop it in front of me. So I’m not a hopeless romantic anymore, but I have been my whole life. And I have so much experience being a hopeless romantic and being really upset about people — enough that I think it traumatized me for the rest of my life. So it still lives in my subconscious enough to write songs about it.
But I don’t imagine I’ll ever have a new person to write a heartbreak song about. I don’t think I’ll even allow myself to be hurt by somebody again.
In terms of your music, do you think that that’s a good inspiration, your romantic life?
Faerybabyy: Yeah, for sure. I mean, all the heartbreak I’ve had in the past is definitely something I tap into. Because the wounds — even if I get over things — the wounds and the insecurities and the feeling of not being enough is always going to be there.
That stuff doesn’t just go away. The feelings for the person can, but the feelings that it made me feel about myself doesn’t.
It sounds like you are like very emotional.
Faerybabyy: Yeah, I am. I’m a crybaby. I cry like every day, actually. I don’t mean that in like, woe is me kind of way. I mean that like — if I see a movie or a commercial, it can make me cry. Or like a meme. Or sometimes I’ll cry because I’m happy. Like, I cry whenever I pray, and I’m just crying because I’m telling God thank you.
I’m very emotional in general — happy, sad. I have very deep emotion. But I don’t mean I sit around and cry and feel bad for myself every day. I don’t let myself do that. I just cry. I cry about random things when they’re happening.
Like, if I don’t find a parking spot, I could cry. But I don’t let it affect my life. I’m crying and I’m laughing at myself while I’m crying. And if I’m with my friends, I’m like, «I’m sorry I’m crying, I just can’t help it.» But what the heck? I’m so embarrassed that I can’t hold the tears. But I really can’t.
Like, if I see a commercial for a Marvel movie — and I don’t even like Marvel movies — I’ll cry because they have like really insane music, where the drums build up and they’ll have like an orchestra, and then people — I’m like, «I know people are gonna die in the movie!» I just start crying.
Do you have a favorite movie?
Faerybabyy: :It’s always been kind of like Gondar by René Laloux. But I wouldn’t say it’s like… I don’t really have a favorite anything. But I have a collection of things that I return to — it’s a place or something like that. There’s like a lot of favorite movies.
It’s not like — if I had to pick one, I could pick one — but like there’s a lot of movies, and depending on my mood, I guess different things stand out. But right now I don’t have anything to say. But usually I would say Gone to Horror by René Laloux.
Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit about that album? What’s the story behind it?
Faerybabyy: Yeah, I mean, it’s the same as Lucky Star where I kind of just like wrote a bunch of stuff and then — things that sounded good together, I kept together. But also, like, this even more so — because I think Lucky Star had some things that kind of didn’t match all the way. Which is why I put that song Can’t Help Myself in the middle.
Because I was like, “Okay, this is all like post-punk, like darker,” and then everything else was like indie rock. And then I had that one little — what I was calling like Ethiopian jazz — jazz rock meets like indie rock track, because I really was inspired by like William Onyeabor, and like these things I found on like radio a long time ago — or like this app called Radio.
But that — I feel like that album — like maybe I ordered it in a way that felt cohesive, but all the songs together didn’t originally, until that order of things.
And like with Jabbermouth, like everything kind of is just like in the same lane. It’s not like — none of it’s even really what I would call like super post-punk. But I guess like a lot of things is considered post-punk, like even kind of pop bands from the ’80s. So maybe it is.
But I would say this one’s closer to like indie rock. And it’s a lot more hi-fi than what I’m used to. And that doesn’t mean that that’s my new direction or anything — that was always like something I was gonna do at least once, you know?
I was a teenage girl once. I had crushes on these boys and like The Kooks and stuff like that. And I just wanted to do what they did. I mean, I loved them as a teenager. I went and saw them live and stuff.
But yeah, I’m kind of like — I’m trying to have my indie boy band moment. So it’s not like super post-punk or anything. But I hope my fans will understand.
And I’m gonna put out — I already have two EPs I’m working on. One that’s done called Vacation — which like, secret I guess — no, you can drop the name, whatever. I have another EP called Vacation that’s like really, really dark and even more lo-fi than Lucky Star.
So for all the hi-fi tracks that are on Jabbermouth, if people think I sold out, then I’ll just drop that and be like, “I’m still here, guys.” I’m a human being capable of nuance. I’m not like tied to just one thing.
Do you have a favorite song on that new album?
Faerybabyy:I mean, it kind of changes as the days go by — every time I re-listen to it. But initially, my favorite song was Jabbermouth, which is kind of like a weird song. Like, it’s very… I’d say it’s very hi-fi. I don’t know if it’s hi-fi to other people, but I listened to like, like Takashi Mizutani — like it’s not — it’s hi-fi for me.
And I know the order of it is a little weird or repetitive, but for some reason, it’s just — it’s so hi-fi to my brain that it was my favorite, because I just… it was so random for me. But I did like it a lot. And there’s a guitar solo in it that I like a lot. And everything else.
But realistically, like the one — there’s only one song on the album that maybe if I didn’t listen to my own… maybe if it wasn’t my music, I would listen to. Like, if it was a random artist, maybe there’s one song I would like. And it’s a song called Keep You Safe in My Back Pocket.
How do you keep so creative?
Faerybabyy: Yeah, I mean, I just write every day. It’s hard, because like — whenever I have to work normal jobs and stuff to survive, like when I was writing Lucky Star, I was a full-time nanny and a bartender at these like underground things.
And so I was literally working like — I was working more than full-time. And then on top of that, every single day that like — if I didn’t have, basically, like if my work didn’t start until later — like say I didn’t start nannying until 6 p.m. because the family was going to go out that night or something and they would be out late, so I’d nanny overnight while the kids slept — I would do a session at 8 a.m.
And like — I basically wasn’t sleeping. I didn’t sleep for like a full 6 months writing that album. I mean, maybe a year. Like I maybe slept a couple hours a night. I don’t… in general, even to this day, I still haven’t gotten eight hours of sleep, and I don’t know how long.
Because I’ve worked so much. And I’d go to sessions literally every single day if there’s a free day. I haven’t slept in two days — doesn’t fucking matter — because I have a record I need to put out. Like I don’t… I’m not like a rich kid, so I don’t have the option of being comfortable.
And I was comfortable — yeah, I mean, I was homeless, so I guess I wasn’t comfortable — but what I’m gonna say is: I was lazy for a long time and I ruined my life. And I’ll never be lazy again. Even if it means I don’t sleep.
I’ll never be lazy again. I have to work twice as hard to make up for all the lost time that I was just laying on my ass, feeling bad for myself. Because somebody hurt my feelings.
We saw that you have a tour coming up soon. So how do you feel about it? Are you excited?
Faerybabyy: I’m excited. I think it’ll be really fun. I don’t like playing shows because I’m scared of it. I’m really — I have stage fright. But I know I have to do it, because I just have to do it.
The aspect that I am excited about is like… like the merch booth after the show. And like meeting the fans. And like finding out that my music actually resonates with people is something that makes me feel like really weird — but really good. Like, it makes me feel like I’m living my purpose and like, like my destiny.
So I enjoy that aspect of it. I don’t enjoy the playing the shows because it’s scary. But, you know, I’m preparing for it and rehearsing and I’m gonna get it right. It’s just — it’s just scary to go up there in front of people for me.
It makes sense if it doesn’t to, you know — I’m not like an exciting person to see live. Like I’m not — I don’t really move. I’m not a super energized person anyway. So if I’m clapping and I’m like, «Yeah! Clap your hands!» — I would literally be being so fake. I’d rather fucking kill myself. You know what I mean?
I’m not a hype lord in real life, so I’m not a hype lord on stage. I’m just kind of like, polite: «Thank you so much.» And I drink your words, if you were just… do you see how I was today?
I mean, I want the music to kind of talk for itself. I don’t want to be like — I already wrote the songs. I don’t want to be responsible for telling people to dance. Like hopefully the songs are just good enough to make them do that. You know what I mean?
If they’re not, then I need to write better songs.
Do you consider yourself an extrovert person?
Faerybabyy: I’m something like in between. I think I’m definitely more introvert now. But I don’t — I don’t know if I was always like that. Like I think I used to enjoy going to parties and stuff, whereas I don’t now.
But I was never… maybe I was never good at going to parties.
Do you have any kind of ritual before you start writing your songs?
Faerybabyy: Yeah, I mean, well, usually it’s like, I’ll start with drums and bass. And like, I’ll find a drum loop on Splice or like, some kind of drum sound I like, and build it out and do the bass line. And then just kind of build everything from that. Vocals usually come last — unless I hear it at the very beginning, and then build the song around it.
But usually, I put it at the end. And — because if we’re really writing a song, it’s like super inspiring. So like, you hear like ten different counter melodies on guitar. So you have to lay all those things down first.
And one thing I do that’s different from everyone else is I actually mix day-of. Like, I guess some people — whenever they make demos — it’s like, their demos are just some of the melodies and not mixed and it sounds crazy. And that’s not how my music is at all.
I usually only put songs out that I make the same day. So if I make a song in one session, then that’s the song that I put out. I never go and touch it again. What’s on Spotify is what I did in a couple hours.
Like Orange Soda — we wrote that song in two hours, and we didn’t touch it after the first day. And some producers will try to touch it and change things and mess with the mix. But I have something — I usually am against that unless it’s bothering me, because I have this thing called “first day magic.”
And first day magic — I think it’s special and it shouldn’t be altered with. You know? It’s like a gift from God. And whenever you write a song like Orange Soda, the way I see it is: every song I’m writing already exists. God just decided, like, this was the day I was gonna do it.
God gave me that present. And he’s like, “Here’s this song.”
It reminds us of Rick Rubin. Did you read the new book that Rick Rubin released? He writes about this stuff — like the idea it’s external to us.
Faerybabyy: Yeah, it has nothing to do with me. I don’t actually — the way that I write — I’m not like great at playing guitar or anything, so I don’t actually write… like, I don’t sit there and strum ideas. I sit there, my friend has a guitar, and I’m like…
I pretty much just pray to God and I ask for a melody. And I’m like, “Okay, do this. Like, do it in eighth notes now. That’s not right — change the swing of it, but keep the downstroke still in a perfect eighth note timing.”
But I get so specific. I play chords and try to hear a song. I just — if God doesn’t show me anything, we’re not leaving with a song that day.
People — like, I’ll go in with a new producer and they’ll hand me vocals and be like, “Oh, do you want to like try some scratch vocal ideas?” I’m like, “I don’t do that. I wait for a gift from God.” That’s how I see it.
How is the process of writing the lyrics? Do you think that’s the easier part?
Faerybabyy: Yeah, the lyrics are the easiest part for me. Yeah. I decide the… either I already hear the lyrics with it — so what I’ll do is, if I hear certain words in the melody that God gives me, I’ll write those down.
And then, whatever I do… sometimes I’ll be like — say, like Orange Soda — it’s like…
So that I would tap the paper to the beat in different lines. So in each thing — whatever my brain decides is a separate line — I would tap the paper to the beat with the amount of syllables, and then I just go through and I write that amount of syllables on the paper.
And that’s how I write the lyrics — it’s just filling in the syllables. And I kind of just keep writing. So I guess God writes that too.
Like, I’m not thinking about a lot of this stuff.
And actually, the last question that we wanted to ask is — are there other musicians in your family?
Faerybabyy: No, I’m the first one. My family works in construction mostly. Some of them work on cars, some of them work in construction, some of them do fencing and like camera installation on construction sites. Everyone in my family basically works on construction or cars.
But as of recently — as of recently — they’re starting to see that it’s working. So they trust in God now too — that whatever he gave me, the desire he gave me in my heart, was true.
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