BOY SODA INTERVIEW: Australian-based artist and creative, BOY SODA, is leading a new wave of lyrically rich and sonically expansive Gen-Z soul. His new music is placing focus on live instrumentation alongside heartfelt and soulful lyrics. Get familiar…
What five words define your sound?
Organic, Shiny, Smokey, Live, Reflective.
Tell me something unique about your creative process.
There’s a very distinct, physical sensation that I feel when I find flow state, or I feel like I’m tapped into what is trying to channel through me when I make music, and that feels like a very unique marker in knowing that I’m onto something important.
Which song of yours would you like people to hear first?
‘Lil Obsession’
What inspired you to make that song?
A bad breakup and turbulent inner-journey to closure and forgiveness!
What’s the most vulnerable you’ve allowed yourself to be when writing/making music?
I’ve been making that music for most of last year, and it’s been a real process of intimacy and brutal honesty so I’m excited to release all of that this year.
What’s the best/worst experience you’ve had on stage?
My first show in Sydney, one song into my set, I kicked a speaker off the stage after trying to put my foot on it, and my manager had to pick it up mid-song. ONE SONG IN. I still had 30 minutes to go.
What is your favourite song to perform?
‘Merlot’ is super fun and ‘Lil Obsession’ is so healing to be able to belt out.
Which artist/song/album made you want to make music?
‘Something Special’ by Usher. ‘Chanel Orange’ by Frank. ‘I Was Made To Love Her’ by Stevie Wonder.
What’s the meaning behind your name?
It’s what I chose when I was younger because it felt right and I’d decided that it’s the music that makes a name and not the other way around.
If you weren’t making music, what would you be doing instead?
I think I’d be a writer of some sorts, maybe a novelist – another stable career path – a designer of spaces in some capacity? Interior designer, creative director. I’m sure I’ll find my way into similar spaces to these throughout my life.
What’s success to you?
Positive impact, connection, financial stability, immortality through art.
What moment in your life/career forced you to change direction?
Steep learning curves in balancing work and life and relationships. It’s always breaking points that force change and I try to imagine what I’d do in those situations before they happen, and for me, it encourages new direction and assertive change.
Where can people keep in touch with you?
Instagram, TikTok and in real life.
Photo by Satoru Takamatsu.
