I Love You Mama Arabic Mp3 Song 58
Maybell Hughs
Some of the best advice I would give myself was to keep going. There would be times where I wanted to pity myself, blame the world for not being where I wanted to be, but I always snapped out of those moments by reminding myself that being a victim of life gets you nowhere. I am 100% capable of making all of my dreams come true, the only sure fire way not to, is to quit.
Playboy reached out and asked if I was interested in a job opportunity and I said yes. A huge part of my mission as a creative is pushing the envelope on how women are perceived in society & for our bodies to be viewed as temples that allow us to move through this human experience loving, nurturing, evolving & healing. I thought to myself what better platform to amplify that message, embracing a space that was founded for the male gaze and making it what I want. It was extremely empowering.
Of course! I wanted to write a song about a good partner, a partner deserving of all the love and yumminess I have to give. There are so many songs about heartbreak and toxicity and I just wanted to have something that highlighted the good sides of love on some Cater 2 You 2.0 type vibes.
I had a past of dealing with a lot of things with my mental health. At the time, I thought, 'Oh, it's a funny play on words,' because I'm sick in the head, or whatever. But it also played into the way I showed myself on the internet at the time, I wanted to embody this 'cool' persona.
I also think there's something about humor in processing things like that. Do you feel that you as Caroline and Siiickbrain are one and the same? How do you feel that you've transformed since your days before you started pursuing music, as a person but also as an artist?
It's been a huge transition. I have the opportunity to really be who I am in the city. I think Siiickbrain as an artist and Caroline as a person, they used to be so different and far in between. But now I feel like there are so many crossovers between them. Dropping this project that is so vulnerable as Siiickbrain definitely feels like there's a big crossover between my personal self, Caroline, and the artist. Of course, there's always a crossover between those personas in my music. But I always have thought of myself as more of a soft and vulnerable person. So in the past, when I've done some of my harder music with screaming and stuff, it's like I'm letting the character be that hardcore, confident type of person, rather than Caroline.
Absolutely. I don't feel like I'm happy or fulfilled unless I'm creatively expressing myself in some way, at all times. Even with modeling, of course, that's a creative way to express myself, but during that time period, I was writing a lot of poetry.
I honestly always wanted to, but my last project was really production-heavy. Even vocally, there was a lot of vocal production and screaming. It kind of took away from what I was saying, even though everything that I said was very thought out and purposeful. This time around, I took my time with the lyricism and I wrote it in a different way than I typically would. I wrote everything in my room. I just could really tap into the vulnerability and I just wanted to strip it down and show people who I really am. And I hope that other people can relate to those feelings as well.
So in the past, basically, I would just go to the studio and tell my producer how I'm feeling. We'd create a beat and write to it, as opposed to just me writing to a guitar. So it was definitely a more intimate process.
Some of your previous tracks and projects address certain things from your past, certain traumas and experiences you unpack. But this is a more gentle sound. Do you think that, thematically, the lyrics and even the production reflect that softness as well?
Absolutely. I think that it's important to be really thoughtful with everything that you're doing instead of getting caught up in the whirlwind of things. Life is so precious and I've always said that and felt that way, but I think that it's easy to fall back into the chaos of everything in life, especially as a musician. Taking a moment and writing this music from a quiet and thoughtful place is new for me.
It's important as an artist and as a person to be able to be who I want to be. It's just so human to have very different emotions and I think that it's important to express all of those emotions in my own ways.
And I'm sure that's very relatable for other people who feel like they have these conflicting things inside of them as well. I've seen your sound described in so many different ways, even in ways that may juxtapose each other. I've seen hyperpop fused with alt-rock, to a mixture of alt-pop and metal. I think that your sound kind of exists in this realm that doesn't have a label. It's its own thing. Do you feel empowered by existing in that liminal space and being able to tap into all different sounds and influences?
Giving myself the freedom to do all of this stuff is really important. I don't like feeling tied to a genre, but I do feel very inspired by other artists like Yung Lean or XXXTentacion, I just admire people who still let their personality shine through, even as the artist. It can all coexist together.
You've also gotten to work with some artists that you have looked up to and some people that you grew up listening to. Do you have any other artists that you look up to that would be like a dream collab at this moment?
I would love to work with the Deftones. And Death Grips as well. Or even a softer artist would be really cool, like Phoebe Bridgers. I'm very open to working with a lot of different people. But I've never really worked with anyone that I don't have a personal relationship with. I feel like making music is so vulnerable and I know that there's a lot of people out there. Not to say that this is wrong in any way, but there are a lot of people out there who are like, 'Oh, I want to work with this person, or I want to work with that person.' But music is such a vulnerable thing and so personal that, for me, it's hard to get in the studio with someone that you don't already know personally on that level.
Music really saved me. I feel like I could have gone down a very different path if I didn't have music to slow me down. Writing is so cathartic and definitely makes me think through all of my emotions and rationalize everything. It helps me to understand myself better.
I honestly love just doing things that I haven't seen before. I like to remain very individual when it comes to my style, but I definitely feel as though I like to channel the darker, sexy side of who I am as a person. A lot of the time, I do wear things that wouldn't be necessarily deemed as sexy though [Laughs]. I don't know, I just have fun with it and I try not to limit myself. I like to be experimental and my stylist and I are extremely collaborative. I want to be a trendsetter in that way.
Going back to what we talked about earlier, when you think about the persona of Caroline and then the persona of Siiickbrain, do you feel like when you get dressed, those two personas converge stylistically?
Yeah, I definitely feel like I'm growing up. I've been going through phases where I feel like I'm growing up, but I think that this phase is one that really shows through my music. I'm truly being more mindful and making decisions that could be scary, big changes. But ultimately it's what's best for me.
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The woman-man relationship is characterised by a sequence of songs about love; such as the love she unselfishly gives to her lover (Mwanuni), to her husband (Nifungo, Nuno Maalani), to her children (Oh Mama), to society as a whole (Samukhela, Kihiyeny) and in return is rewarded by being abandoned, divorced, forgotten and ignored.
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