I'm going to have a lot of fun… and it becomes this awesome positive feedback loop. If it's fun, I'm going to do it all the time. Because I think that's how I'm gonna do my best work, if I’m doing stuff that's really fun. “I do what I like when it comes to music, that's the rule. When that was over, I went through a period of writing music - I mean, I'm always in a period of writing music - but I entered a new period of writing music, and as I was doing it, I was making beats and I was like, this is incredibly fun, I don't want to do a studio album right now, I want to do this again. I spent all this time making the live record prior and that was really great. What led you to return to that way of doing things? This is your first solo project in a few years after working with a live band. Actual beatmaking, the process of making beats, I didn’t fall in love with until I was about 20.” Hip-hop, I didn’t fall in love with until I was 17 or 18. “I started recording music on GarageBand when I was 13 or 14, but I wasn’t really serious about it at that point. When did the production side of things come into play? It’s something I've always done and enjoyed.” There's always a piano in the house, so I’ve been playing probably since I was three or four, but started learning more intentionally when I was like six or seven with my mom, who also plays a little bit and taught me how to read music. “I've been playing music since I was very little. Could you tell us about how you first got into music and where that all started for you? We caught up with Kiefer over the phone from his home in Los Angeles to find out more about the making of It’s Ok, B U. Every time, I'm getting a little bit better at having a direct line to whatever my spirit wants to play.” “But this is music I genuinely love to make. “There are a lot of opportunities to not do the thing that is the most captivating to me,” he tells us. Touching on themes of mental health and self-acceptance, the record finds Kiefer abandoning self-doubt and embracing his creative instincts.
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