Then I can look back and ask myself, “is this up to the standard of what I like?”Ĭrossing over, mixing genres, blending styles is just something that happens by accident. It’s really just about trusting my own taste, and saying “this is what I like,” then making something. My favorite music has qualities I’ve never heard before Something that I think is challenging on one level or another, that is centered somewhere familiar while bringing something new to the table. Teddy : From my perspective, I just want to love what I’m making… make my favorite song. So, how is that as an artist? Is it difficult to be transcending styles or does it come naturally to you? RNGLDR : The idea of crossover artists is really interesting because you in particular have a transcendental sound – you can’t really be defined by any traditional sphere of genre. The way it’s changing right now is that this genre is having more of an impact on what popular rap is as a whole. People thought that drill music was going to come and go, but now people are still making the drill hits, you know what I mean? Most music is aggregate off other inspiration. People are going to do that with every new wave. I’ve definitely seen it in today’s scene, but it’s not new at all. Teddy : If you’re even a little bit uncomfortable with yourself, and you try to do any genre that you’re just trying to cash in on for style points, it’s going to come out inauthentic in one way or another. RNGLDR : Sometimes, with the hip-hop circuit especially, some of the artists that seem to be trending towards that Warp Tour era of alt rock and pop punk, have a difficulty crossing over between the sounds. As a listener, that’s always been something I’ve searched for. At the same time, now there’s more competition in the same genre, and the only thing that it’s made me do is become more niche and more focused on creating something that’s unique. Realistically, I think it’s just that people have become more open to this type of music that I’m very comfortable making and have been for a while. More specifically than rock, for me it’s pop punk, jazz, and blues that are the main influences. It’s kind of strange, but I’ve felt that shift happen really slowly. It’s interesting because, if you look back to even your earliest work, it’s the kind of approach you’ve always had, and now the more mainstream sound seems headed in that same direction. Especially if you look at where music is – predominantly in more mainstream hip-hop – there’s a big influence from rock – an obvious blending between those two styles. RNGLDR : Regarding your sound, you have a really interesting thing going. I’ve been working with a lot of different artists over the past few years, but I’m more focused on my solo stuff now and moving forward. So, would you mind giving us a quick background on who you are, what you do, etc? RNGLDR: A lot of people reading this will know you already, but for many, this interview will be a first introduction to your person and your creativity. On the cusp of releasing a new album, Bread & Butterflies – a raw concept project of particularly emotional breath, we connect with Teddy in a calm and meditative mental place of reflection, creativity, and near-finality before the gates open and all are welcomed into his hauntingly fantastic garden. You see, he, like many artists in the modern sphere, is not necessarily fond of or reliant on labels. But truly, the best way to define his sonic texture, is simply as his own. Undoubtedly part of the increasingly popular movement of crossover artistry bringing sledge hammers to the party of traditional genre realignment, teddybear finds himself today a proponent and a creative mind of music that ranges in classic definition from pop punk to hip-hop and back again. Teddy, as we came to learn, is a person and an artist of forward honesty and wholehearted openness, who approaches music the same way that he approaches life – uniquely head on with a remarkably wide lens. But to say there was anything remotely opaque about the 90-minute facetime call we were fortunate enough to have with Toronto artist, teddybear, would be a statement as devastatingly unjust as saying a similar level of opacity exists in his music. A lot of things tend to get lost in technological translation.
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