Interview: lunes
Hailing from the Inner North of Melbourne, lunes creates vibey pop music that will sometimes make you dance and sometimes make you cry. Growing up as a musical theatre kid, lunes had a taste for singing and performing from an early age. In teenage years, she taught herself keyboard and guitar and was inspired heavily by Paramore’s ‘Riot!’ album which subsequently kickstarted her journey into song writing. This lead to many years of running a popular YouTube channel, reaching a significant amount of viewers globally and allowed lunes to meet a network of people who she played regular acoustic shows with across Melbourne and other Australian cities. Now, lunes has shifted her focus onto creating her own original sound, which is a seamless juncture between unwaveringly vulnerable acoustic bedroom jams and her new found love for expanding the sonic realm to meet you somewhere in the indie-pop ether.
Girls, the debut single from lunes, is a pastel hue of 80's synths, pop hooks and trap hats washed out into dreamy reverbs and layered melodies. Anthemic yet intimate, confessional yet liberating, Girls is an honest and unapologetic exploration into queerness and unearthing of self.
We had the pleasure of checking in with lunes recently and she was kind enough to respond to a few interview questions.
Hey lunes! Thanks so much for chatting with us today. Congratulations on the release of your debut single ‘Girls’ . Can you give us more insight on what the song means to you?
Thank you so much! For me this song is really about unapologetically expressing my sexuality and finding pride in who I am. I spent a lot of time getting to know myself deeply during 2020 (didn’t we all) and so Girls was the product of me becoming truly comfortable in my queerness for all that it is and shedding all traces of internalised biphobia that remained in me.
What inspired you to start making music?
I grew up as a stage kid, so I was singing and dancing since I could walk & talk but I bought my first guitar as a teen when I fell in love with a young singer-songwriter on Australian Idol and I thought ‘That could be me!’. But the first full song I ever wrote was really inspired by Paramore’s ‘Misery Business’.
What’s the best life advice you’ve ever been given that you would be down to share? When I was traveling through the Italian Riviera in 2019, I met a girl who told me “do what you love, unapologetically, every day of your life and everything else will fall into place” and that really resonated with me. It seems so obvious, but I think we can get so bogged down by practicality sometimes that we forget to follow our hearts.
If you could collaborate with any artist dead or alive who would it be?
This is a tough one but I think I’m going to have to say the Aaron Dessner/Taylor Swift combo. The Folklore album is such an indie-pop masterpiece and I would love to experience their mastery first hand.
Which emotions did you feel when writing Girls?
Writing ‘Girls’ was really liberating for me. I felt so overwhelmed with excitement through the whole writing process, both because it was lyrically such a cathartic release but also because it was a step in a really different direction musically.
What can we expect from lunes in 2022?
2022 is the start of a new chapter for me! You can expect an exploration of lots of different styles, a return to my more vulnerable & slow jams as well as some more dancey pop bangers! As always, I wanna keep people on their toes so they never know if the next lunes track is gonna make them dance or cry.
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