{"id":11381,"date":"2019-04-12T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/?p=11381"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:13:29","slug":"charlie-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2019\/04\/12\/charlie-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Jase Falk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We caught up with local lo-fi bedroom popper Charlie Baby to talk about expressing vulnerability through music, DIY, the future, and existing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Stylus: What do you find important about expressing vulnerability through music?<\/strong>
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Charlie: <\/strong>Every so often there will be a random burst of something and I\u2019ll just feel so many things. I\u2019m often very closed off with people. I like being close with people, but I\u2019m very shielded and uncomfortable talking about my myself and feelings, but I find when I just play them, or find music to put to something that I\u2019m feeling it\u2019s a lot easier to share that. Even if you\u2019re not sitting down with someone and opening up and directly being vulnerable, you can share music and know that maybe people are getting something out of it.
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Every so often I\u2019ll just feel so much of something and I won\u2019t be able to do anything but write like seven songs and then not be able to write for months. There will be buildup of feeling and I\u2019ll write everything in a short burst of time which is nice for that month where I feel super motivated, but then for the rest of the time I feel like a fraud and like I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing. Then I question myself and think if I should even be doing this if I\u2019m not fully committed 100% of the time. But I feel like you don\u2019t have to be doing something every day for it to be meaningful to you.
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S: Do you find it\u2019s hard to be recognized for your music when doing a lot of it DIY?<\/strong>
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C:<\/strong> I feel like no one takes me seriously. I feel like I don\u2019t separate myself from music and making music. It all blends into one and doesn\u2019t feel like a \u2018serious\u2019 thing, it just feels like me. Like, I\u2019m not actually a musician and don\u2019t have a band, I just play music sometimes which I guess is nice, but I don\u2019t know how people create a social media account for their band and have all this stuff specific to their music and create a space for that. I created an Instagram page for my music, but then within 2 seconds I was like \u201cAhhh, emotions and everything\u201d I don\u2019t know how people can keep themselves apart from what they put out into the world and on social media.
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Seeing so many people with their Instagram accounts and having a certain brand connected with their music I just think \u201cah! how do you just decide on one thing and are able to stay with that\u201d because I feel like I change so much and everything I do changes so much and some days I want to move and live in a forest for the rest of my life and not talk to anyone, and then the next day I want to be a serious music and the next day it changes again and I can\u2019t stay in one state of mind and that leaks into what I do online so I feel like I seem not very stable and secure in what I do now.
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S: Where do you see the future of your music going?<\/strong>
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C:<\/strong> Well, a week ago I wanted to go to BC and become a journalist and now I want to be a nurse. It\u2019s like every two seconds I invest myself fully in something and then drop everything else so I don\u2019t really know what is going to happen because I am such a Gemini, constantly being impulsive. I always go back to music and it is something I really want to do. I really, really like Frankie Cosmos and Greta Kline. Just knowing that Frankie wrote all this stuff and has a <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bandcamp full of one minute recordings of something on a phone and its super DIY and all in a bedroom and some songs are on a bus, or just when she got home from wherever and just sang and put it on bandcamp\u2014I really like that.
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Existing is so bizarre and it\u2019s weird to think that everything is going to disappear and all people will have is what you left behind and once you\u2019re not a living person anymore, there will just be your artifacts or whatever you left behind that remains and it feels less terrifying if there\u2019s still a part of me that exists in the world after I\u2019m dead. I don\u2019t know. I find that comforting.
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