Enchanting Melodies and Dreamy Pop: Exploring Ari Voxx's Artistic Journey
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Unknown
Only a couple months down. I think I recognize.
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Rob Lee
Welcome to the truth and sorry. I'm your host, Rob Lee. And today I have the privilege of being with a dreamy pop princess.
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Ari Voxx
That's me.
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Rob Lee
Should I read that somewhere?
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Ari Voxx
Yeah.
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Rob Lee
Please welcome Ari Vox. Welcome to the podcast. Hi.
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Ari Voxx
Thank you for having me.
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Rob Lee
Thank you for coming through. It's a very pink day. So shout out to you.
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Ari Voxx
Yes, Thank you. Every day is pink in my house.
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Rob Lee
That's great. Yeah. Everything is black for me, as you can see.
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Ari Voxx
That, too.
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Rob Lee
I'm a vampire person.
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Ari Voxx
Is I'm a vampire on the inside. I feel like we might kind of be flip flopped here.
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Rob Lee
Oh, no, but I pick it up. Maybe. I don't know.
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Ari Voxx
All pink on the end.
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Ari Voxx
This is true. This is true. This is true.
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Rob Lee
It's a little pennywise. We all float down here. Yeah, exactly. So thank you for taking the time to come down. And we're doing this in lovely, lovely D.C..
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Ari Voxx
Well, yeah, it can be lovely.
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Rob Lee
So before we dive into, like, the sort of heart of the conversation, I like to look at these interview questions almost like, you know, you go to a fine dining restaurant and you get like, you know, you go to any restaurant and then you get the water, You get the guy who comes over, the girl comes over or whatever comes out.
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Rob Lee
And it's like, Yeah, we got it. You know, this is the menu. Take a look at it. Here's our specials. That's the way I want to look at these questions.
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Ari Voxx
Okay.
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Rob Lee
Almost like a menu. So, yeah. So as we start off, I want to get sort of like a bit of your early interest. So could you share some? We feel like your early creative interests, and I want to kind of get into, like, maybe a glimpse into, like some of those formative years, you know, that led you to kind of like, pursue music, pursue creativity.
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Ari Voxx
Yes. Okay. So I always tell people that I came out of the womb singing. I was kind of I mean, I was a little bit of an annoying kid, always making sounds.
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Ari Voxx
And.
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Ari Voxx
I was kind of a little weirdo. And like, elementary school, I didn't really have a lot of friends, so I would spend most of my afternoons after school just kind of twirling around in the backyard and like making up songs, singing and butterflies and stuff of my friends were like the sticks I would find in my back yard.
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Ari Voxx
I would say to them, That sounds kind of sad.
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Rob Lee
It sounds actually pretty good, though.
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Ari Voxx
Yeah, So but I was also I wasn't a very cheery kid, even like my sister would call me Eeyore because I was always like.
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Ari Voxx
Oh, what does it matter? Anyway? I'm kind of the same now.
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Ari Voxx
But when it comes to music. So yeah, I've always been singing and making up songs and I've always been very creative like writing and creating things. I asked my mom to take drum lessons when I was a kid. She said, Absolutely not.
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Rob Lee
No more.
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Ari Voxx
Notes. Yes.
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Ari Voxx
So she signed me up for classical guitar lessons with my neighbor. So I started off with that, and that gave me kind of a super in-depth understanding about music in a way that a lot of the other kids my age didn't really, because who was listening to classical music, especially classical guitar music, is like Stephen Worthy. So yeah, I did that for a few years or more like eight years, and then became a teenager and wanted to do rock and roll.
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Ari Voxx
So as.
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Rob Lee
We all do.
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Ari Voxx
Yeah. How?
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Ari Voxx
Yeah. So put down the nylon string, picked up the electric and just kind of just got involved in like the punk and hardcore scene a little bit in D.C. and Baltimore.
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Rob Lee
Shout out, shout.
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Ari Voxx
Shout out.
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Ari Voxx
You know, was a little sad punk girl writing songs. Play an open mics and stuff, getting into trouble. And I don't know, it took me a while to to find to, to settle in, to like a genre and style that I really felt comfortable in because, I mean, I think, you know, both of us probably had similar experiences being like black nerds and like being into a bunch of different things.
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Ari Voxx
Yeah, not just like rap and R&B, but also rock and grunge and eighties pop and classical music and jazz, like everything all together. And people, you know, my whole life tried to keep putting me into boxes, but now I feel like I'm finally comfortable to, like, do what I want to do. But I've have have all these experiences that kind of amalgamate into, you know, who I am and what what I put out there.
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Ari Voxx
So thank you. Sorry, I ramble kind of a.
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Ari Voxx
Lot.
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Rob Lee
As I tell people who are very verbose in in, in that you're very verbose. You're you're doing what you need to do. And I'm like, yeah, you make my job easier. So, you know, and it just seemed like.
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Ari Voxx
A lot of, a.
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Rob Lee
Lot of not a meaningful lyric. But yeah, I mean, definitely I agree with it. Where I did a podcast for a while called Unofficially Black. Mm hmm. Because it was just like me and one of my buddies shout out to great. We we would do this podcast and we would have these conversations which would later become this podcast.
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Rob Lee
And you talk to Black folks and it's like, Hey, man, I'm doing this. And I'm like, What are you doing this weekend, man? I'm going to Japan. I mean, I'm going to Little Tokyo, Little Tokyo and in L.A. to watch like Japanese wrestling and Philly. Why, that's weird. Like Bloody Zone watch wrestling, I think. What are you saying to me?
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Ari Voxx
Exactly? And.
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Rob Lee
You know, I just felt like we had this sort of common ground and then you see this overlap. And I look at it almost now of if you know, you know, that's kind of the energy I have for it now. But I think it sort of takes that time to find like who your people are, which feels hokey sometimes.
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Rob Lee
But it's true. It's true. And you know, like what energy, what vibe you want to be around. And even doing something like this. Now, every Tom, Dick and Jerome, I said that intentionally has a podcast. And I was doing I've been doing it since 2009. Some of the things I would hear is a black podcast. It didn't look like it should be playing football.
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Rob Lee
It's like, Why would you do that? That's weird. That's why people stuff, it's like, But is it though?
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Ari Voxx
Yeah.
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Rob Lee
And I but definitely when you're able to find it, you're able to just like, cut down on all the noise.
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Ari Voxx
Yeah. And I've definitely had similar experiences with like kind of people telling me that me and my interests are not black enough for like, like the way I talk to music, but I.
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Ari Voxx
Know you.
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Rob Lee
Speak so well.
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Ari Voxx
Oh, my God. That's a whole nother level. Yeah.
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Ari Voxx
Yeah. I'm just like the way I like to dress and with the things I like to do, it's really fucking annoying. And I think we've grown a lot because the Internet culture has expanded to every little crevice everywhere. And like, people are taking our stuff, we're taking their stuff. And it's the sharing of cultures, which is great. And like something like watching anime or listening to K-Pop, like that's more acceptable now.
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Ari Voxx
Whereas I was bullied.
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Ari Voxx
So hard in middle school and high.
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Ari Voxx
School for like and I kind of just we're like listening to fucking Paramore.
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Ari Voxx
Apparently Paramore for now.
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Rob Lee
Little Lindsay Burgers.
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Ari Voxx
You literally.
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Rob Lee
Yeah, it's I'll say this once I got out of college and I went to a business school, you're pushed to go into these things and sort of this idea of black excellence. I'm sure you have thoughts on that as well.
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Ari Voxx
My dad's a lawyer, Blackwater.
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Rob Lee
So and, you know, I would I remember you're pushing for sort of these corporate jobs and all of this different stuff. And I like to play with this little this little game here, how you look in the office, because it's only like three black people just like Max. Right. And I remember working in a spot that had this sort of diverse energy.
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Rob Lee
And I do this in inverted commas, and all the black guys was four of us. We were all moved in the same area.
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Ari Voxx
Oh, now.
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Rob Lee
I'm looking at it. I was like, All right, there's only you only get to be a certain type of black dude in that environment. So I'm like, What is your thing is like doing central casting. That's what I felt like I was doing. I was like, I'm the tech nerd. What are you? So I used to do that.
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Rob Lee
So definitely sort of. And it brings me to this next question. I actually segway like I think our identities are kind of like what what we I think who we feel like we're comfortable in and being who how we feel like we're comfortable presenting ourselves. I think that direct assignment, some of the behavior we're getting into and some of the things that we're pursuing, whether it be creative, whether it be with the people we hang out with, really being able to be comfortable and say like, Hey, this is who I am, this is what I'm doing.
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Rob Lee
So if you will, could you share a bit about like some of the identities? And I think we were touching on a little bit, but some of the identities that, you know, that make up who you are and how that influences and shapes your music and your storytelling approach.
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Ari Voxx
What's the question.
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Rob Lee
Your identity or how.
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Ari Voxx
You see.
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Rob Lee
I'm being verbose now.
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Ari Voxx
I know my identity.
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Ari Voxx
So like, like what? You were like some of the question do something about being black and queer and a lady.
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Ari Voxx
Okay, I do a.
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Ari Voxx
Lady lady.
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Rob Lee
Doth protest too much.
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Ari Voxx
I don't know. Well, I think in like the the spaces that I'm putting myself in these days aren't necessarily the spaces someone like me would typically seek out. I feel, okay, you're going to have to always rephrase the question for me because I'm a little.
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Rob Lee
Yeah, no, I got you. So like what? I'm doing this writing when I'm doing this podcast, I speak to a litany of different people, different disciplines, all of that stuff. But at the root, the through line in it is I am a six foot four black man from East Baltimore. So my perspective is going to be such. And I think part of my identity comes through in the interviews and the people that I'm looking to talk to, the spots that I'm in.
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Rob Lee
So as far as your approach to creativity, whether it be white writing, whether it be pursuing collaborations, pursuing opportunities to perform and such, how does your identity like pop up, in short, in your work? Did that help?
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Ari Voxx
Yeah, I think that did help. It's like a bits of big question I feel, though. I feel I don't you know, I think a lot of the times in my creative process, like when I'm writing, I don't really think about all that. I don't, I don't it's like I kind of transcend it being.
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Ari Voxx
Honestly.
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Ari Voxx
Sometimes am It's similar to kind of what happens like the when I dream, I'm never myself in my dreams. I don't know what this means. I don't know how many other people experiences, but I'm never myself. I'm always like this, like Middle East Asian guy or like a fucking well, like Latin woman. Like, I'm always just like someone else.
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Ari Voxx
And so I feel like very fluid in my identity, I guess, especially when it comes to creativity, because I'm, I can be anything and everything and I am everything, period.
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Ari Voxx
That's right.
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Ari Voxx
But yeah, so I mean, I don't really think about like my blackness or really my queerness when it comes to creating. I think they kind of people kind of put that on me. I don't know. It's like people perceive that for me and I don't really think about it. I'm just existing.
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Rob Lee
Yeah.
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Ari Voxx
But even though I do, I do believe the things about my identity are important. Being black and queer and lady and pursuing my dreams and getting myself out there and being represented in the media and things like that, that's very important to me. But I guess try not to like pigeonhole myself into thinking, yeah, that I need to be those things all the time or portray those things in a certain way all the time.
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Rob Lee
Yeah. And I like, I like that we got to that. I like that we got to that, that answer because I was seeing it. But I didn't wanna put words in your mouth because I think I'm in the same way where, when I'm doing this, all this stuff is baked in, but I don't need to stand up. Yeah, You know, it's like, Yeah, brother.
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Ari Voxx
If you do, you know.
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Rob Lee
It's like I make fun of that. And, but also that stuff is naturally there. Like, I remember there are a lot of folks that I know who fit into that, sort of like the black nerd, the sort of sitting outside of that typical sort of this is a black person is it's like sure about yeah, all right. And cool.
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Rob Lee
But I find that a lot of folks that were in sort of like all black thing. Mm 2020 a lot of people like black music, you know, just like, yeah, you should know this, you should know this. You have to know these things.
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Ari Voxx
Yeah.
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Ari Voxx
That, that term all black. Yeah that's so, that's so funny to me. But it's like I see exactly why like someone like myself would probably, like, gravitate towards that sort of like identifier because, I mean, it's, I don't know, probably partially my fault, but probably partially like the community's fault for casting out the people that are not typically black because I don't know where everyone just wants to belong and like search for a group of people or like a label, a box that they can fit neatly into.
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Ari Voxx
Yeah, because we got, we got people saying, You're not black enough and, well, you think you're better than me because it's this like an automatic, like aggression. A lot of times that I get really scared by even like, and I found my people now and, you know, it's, it's been easier to do that. But even now I still have so much anxiety when I'm like, is walking into like a predominately black space.
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Ari Voxx
I'm just like, I feel like an imposter sometimes. I'm like, Oh, no. Like they're going to know that I'm not like the like a real one.
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Ari Voxx
I don't like, walk a certain way.
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Rob Lee
And so just walk jive. Like how could I? But I was like my chest out.
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Ari Voxx
It's recycling.
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Ari Voxx
Oh, and it's, you know, it's mostly in my own head, but I mean, you know, you still get look sometimes still get a little comments and it sucks.
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Rob Lee
But and it's I just look at all of it it's like, this is nonsense. I had to I had to come to that realization at a point where you second guess almost everything you do.
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Ari Voxx
Yeah.
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Rob Lee
And I I've even been doing this podcast, I've, I've had people I'm just this, I'm just me. Right. And I think that that's what you were describing a moment ago and I've had people say, oh, no, man, I don't know if you're a real black dude. I was like.
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Ari Voxx
What? Stop?
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Rob Lee
Or I don't know if you have this or I don't know. I was like, Well, I'm this. This is who I am. This is what I'm saying. This is how I'm approaching it. All of it is blood.
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Ari Voxx
Yeah. And if it's if you can't see that, then that's your problem. And you need to look within yourself to see why you think that way.
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Rob Lee
So dive in a little bit deeper to, like, musical influences, right? Yeah. Let's let's talk about that a little bit. You mentioned like, you know, you said earlier, so there's pop, right? Pop is a thing.
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Ari Voxx
Yes, Pop is a thing.
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Rob Lee
And I also her like early on, there's some, you know, hardcore scene built in there. There is some in terms of like what you were into, Right. Yeah. And classical guitar as well.
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Ari Voxx
Yeah.
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Rob Lee
And it's like, you know, butterflies and sticks as an audience. That's another thing. So talk a talk.
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Ari Voxx
About so different than.
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Ari Voxx
My audiences today.
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Rob Lee
Well, I mean I'm a podcast of one.
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Ari Voxx
Oh three, but.
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Rob Lee
Um, so talk about like some of those like, like influences and maybe like because I find like the way that we describe influences a lot of times is who do we steal from? And it's like, I'm going to make this a, this podcast. I'm sure some people said it's kind of war is sometimes really kind of low key.
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Rob Lee
Sometimes it's kind of this kind of in Sure I like to say is James Lipton sometimes but there there's influences that that sit there. So I like to be very obvious about that. So who are some of those influences like and what do you taking from them? Like, is it this person's stage presence? I really dig or this person's like, like they are they sort of design their I for.
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Rob Lee
That's the imagery I want. This is the songwriting. So.
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Ari Voxx
Well yeah. So I mean, I think growing up I was influenced a lot by my family's music. So with my mom, it was Motown all the time. So, you know, Earth, Wind Fire, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Smokey, Smokey, Smokey, So strong.
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Rob Lee
I just think of that song Getting Better.
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Ari Voxx
Oh.
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Rob Lee
Yeah.
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Ari Voxx
Yep.
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Rob Lee
This is how we know where to say.
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Ari Voxx
Yeah, man.
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Ari Voxx
So lots of Motown with her. That's kind of how I learned to, like, harmonize and how to sing in my falsetto voice, Actually, sometimes I a lot of times when I listen to myself, I hear a male voice. I think because most of the music I listen to, I didn't listen to a lot of lady singers. So the singers that I would try to emulate would be mostly men.
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Ari Voxx
So that's what I hear in my head. I know other people don't really say that, but I think the way I do, like my falsetto, like my high voice, just sounds like a dude singing falsetto because that's how I learned. So that's my time with Mom. And then my siblings are both like much older than me, so they're both born in the eighties and I'm I'm 27 and my sister's like 40 something.
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Ari Voxx
My brother what.
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Ari Voxx
I'm just saying that's old is a bad thing. Like a lot of me.
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Ari Voxx
But, you know, my sister was really into like eighties, like new wave post-punk. So there's a lot of like Depeche Mode for Fear as a Cure. And then my brother was kind of a little shit head into like, Chili Peppers.
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Ari Voxx
And so so.
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Ari Voxx
Soundgarden is what I got from my friend, my brother. And Chris Cornell is definitely one of my favorite vocalists. And just look there, I can sorry, can I.
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Ari Voxx
Swear I'm actually over a lot?
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Ari Voxx
Yeah. Like that band's journey from being kind of like super heavy, dark metal, grungy. And then they got really, like, bluesy and really soulful. I mean, Chris Cornell has always been, like, super soulful. Yeah. So but yeah, I think I take a lot of my, the wet songwriting style from Soundgarden and Chris Cornell and but kind of the sounds that I gravitate towards are those like eighties pop driven pop, like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Cocteau Twins.
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Ari Voxx
Those are kind of like my main, like instrumental sounds that I strive for. Yeah, and I have definitely achieved with this new album that I'm working on. I'm okay. Please stop asking with my with my band The Sad Lives. I found them on Craigslist to excellent labs. I highly recommend Craigslist for Labs.
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Ari Voxx
Great.
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Ari Voxx
But they are more. I'm not very technologically savvy when it comes to the gear and stuff. They're super duper into that. So they kind of bring to me the sounds that I've been dreaming of. And I'm like, Perfect.
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Rob Lee
You know exactly what I was looking for.
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Ari Voxx
Yes.
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Ari Voxx
Thank you. And not very I don't know. I feel music within me.
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Ari Voxx
Coursing through my veins.
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Ari Voxx
But I don't really know the language. Even though I took classical guitar, I kind of lost a lot of the music theory and I think it's ingrained in there, but I just don't have the verbiage for it anymore, which I should. I'm around musicians all the time, and.
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Rob Lee
It's one of those things where folks get into jargon.
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Ari Voxx
Yeah, that's.
00;20;33;08 - 00;21;00;27
Rob Lee
Like, I don't know that I remember this is it's going to sound super weird. I was born in the eighties as well, so I felt seen for a second. But when I was in high school, I remember. So this is like a lot of Neptunes production time, right? And let's remember looking at is this interview with Pharrell. He was just kind of like just humming a beat and then and maybe like Chad was like, Oh, I know what to do.
00;21;00;29 - 00;21;05;05
Rob Lee
Yeah. And I was like, This is how you make music. And I'm sitting now. It's like Burma.
00;21;05;05 - 00;21;07;14
Ari Voxx
Burma.
00;21;07;16 - 00;21;31;21
Rob Lee
Figure it out this way. Are you going for a jazz New Orleans thing? What are you going for here? But being able to kind of hook up with the right folks, your language is definitely super complimentary. If like, Yeah, you get it, you get what I'm going for here. So even when you're doing something like this, doing an interview, doing a production, it's and I feel like it's a fair amount of like trust that folks put in to me.
00;21;31;21 - 00;21;59;12
Rob Lee
This is why I take what I do like pretty seriously. You know, someone's coming, they're sharing their stuff and being authentic and sharing what it is. I'm just trying to guide it, you know, in a way, and not saying, Well, it's going to just be this is like, no, we're going to talk about everything, but it's going to have like sort of a through line and it's going to be able to cover sort of the key points and ultimately the goal behind it or what my aspiration is to have folks dive in and go deeper and talk more about you, more about your music.
00;21;59;14 - 00;22;03;21
Rob Lee
And that's that's really what it is. But I think it's just like being able to connect with people who get.
00;22;03;21 - 00;22;05;25
Ari Voxx
It Exactly, because that's so important.
00;22;05;29 - 00;22;15;00
Rob Lee
Because some folks are happening. So yeah, I would love to be here just to talk about this project specifically, nothing else. I'm like, maybe an advertisement.
00;22;15;00 - 00;22;16;16
Ari Voxx
You want. Yeah, you.
00;22;16;16 - 00;22;18;04
Ari Voxx
Can just go by analogies, man.
00;22;18;05 - 00;22;42;14
Rob Lee
I mean, there are billboards that are very cheap. It's so. And also in the songwriting process, like, is it is or are there like sort of like personal experiences that pop up in the process, sort of ones, emotions, what have you. And I see that because when I'm doing this, it's hard to fake certain things. It's hard to fake enthusiasm.
00;22;42;16 - 00;22;45;15
Ari Voxx
I'm really bad at faking.
00;22;45;17 - 00;22;50;04
Rob Lee
So you don't want to go over that. Please instance.
00;22;50;06 - 00;22;58;25
Ari Voxx
I mean, I think I'm a very emotional person. I'm a Scorpio. What are you.
00;22;58;28 - 00;22;59;23
Rob Lee
I'm an Aquarius.
00;22;59;25 - 00;23;05;20
Ari Voxx
Okay. Yeah, My most of my a lot of my friends are Aquarius and we're water signs. We're flowing. The tears are flowing.
00;23;05;20 - 00;23;06;16
Ari Voxx
Okay.
00;23;06;19 - 00;23;10;03
Ari Voxx
Very, uh, and.
00;23;10;05 - 00;23;13;28
Ari Voxx
I was the question.
00;23;14;00 - 00;23;19;12
Rob Lee
You know. Yeah. So sort of personal experiences, emotions, feelings. How does that influence them?
00;23;19;12 - 00;23;58;19
Ari Voxx
Yeah, I mean, the music, my feelings are music. I mean, it's I'm not very good at talking. As you can see, I feel like the only way I can fully communicate my feelings and there are a lot of them is, is to music. I mean, I'll have I'll be sitting on the on the patio smoking a cigaret and then you know, I'll get a wave of an emotion and then I'll just open my mouth and, and a melody comes out and then I go figure out what chords go with it on my piano or whatever.
00;23;58;21 - 00;24;28;23
Ari Voxx
It's yeah. And honestly, the words, the lyrics come last for me. I think lyrics can be important for me. That's not really what I look for in music. Yeah, I guess I look for the emotion, the melodies and the harmonies. Those are what's important to me and that's what I what I focus on because I think you don't really need words to convey what you want to say.
00;24;28;25 - 00;24;38;18
Ari Voxx
I mean, you can if you're connected, if that's enough. So that's the skill to if you can connect with someone without even saying any words, that's magical, man.
00;24;38;26 - 00;24;40;04
Ari Voxx
So yeah.
00;24;40;06 - 00;25;03;13
Ari Voxx
So that's, that's what I do. I mean, and the song process is different for me. The writing process is different every time. I mean, sometimes I'll do melody first, sometimes I'll be fucking around and the DA and find something that happens, or very rarely, you know, sometimes I'll be like, I want to write a song about this, about this topic, and then I'll sit down and think.
00;25;03;13 - 00;25;22;21
Ari Voxx
But again, just try to let the emotion flow about it, making like little lists, like not lists. What do you call, you know, you're in school and you make like when you're writing a paper and make ideal webs like webs. Yeah, that starts with like one bubble. That's like the main topic. And then I break it out into like, other things about it.
00;25;22;21 - 00;25;28;25
Ari Voxx
That's kind of how my brain works. So that's kind of how my songwriting ends up as well.
00;25;28;27 - 00;25;41;29
Rob Lee
Thank you. That's good. That's good. When I'm thinking through like, All right, you know, what am I going to do for this season and what I'm going to do for upcoming episodes and so on. I think, yeah, you can't talk to everyone. You don't have unlimited resources, you don't have a little bit of time. You can't write every song.
00;25;42;01 - 00;26;03;13
Rob Lee
That's right. It's like, Oh, this is interesting. It's just time doesn't permit it, right? But it's like, All right, what do I prioritize? So one of the things that I was able to do this this past year is we recording this in June. One of the things I was able to do over the course of a few months was I wanted to do a month that was focused on jazz music for April.
00;26;03;15 - 00;26;22;29
Rob Lee
So I did interviews in New Orleans, Philly and here in Alaska, and getting those sort of interviews and it took work to kind of bring that to fruition because I was like, yes, something about, you know, basketball and sports is something about doing it on the road at the person's place. They're much more comfortable and they're like, yeah, here's this thing.
00;26;22;29 - 00;26;42;05
Rob Lee
Like when I went to the this sort of jazz museum in New Orleans, I remember speaking with the curator there, and he was like, Yeah, we had Louis Armstrong's cornet that he trained on the original like thing they were trained on. He's like, We had it here in this building. I was like, Can I can I see? Is like, you know, maybe I'll get some talent from it, you know, whatever it is.
00;26;42;05 - 00;26;56;11
Rob Lee
So that, that, that, that kind of thing where it's just like, all right, this is what I'm doing. And what comes from it. It's like I aspire to go for this thing. I may fall short, right? I want to do 30 jazz interviews. I got 15. But it's just.
00;26;56;11 - 00;26;57;25
Ari Voxx
Love. It it.
00;26;57;27 - 00;27;18;12
Rob Lee
It is. Absolutely it is. But it's like having this sort of like aim of this is what I'm going after. I think that's really important. But having sort of the ideas, the list, the idea web, as it were, yeah, is something important about it. So I'm thinking about that for this sort of next season without feeling hokey, without feeling like I'm covering territory already covered.
00;27;18;17 - 00;27;21;20
Rob Lee
But while keeping it interesting, I think that's what keeps you on point with intention.
00;27;21;25 - 00;27;23;07
Ari Voxx
Yeah.
00;27;23;10 - 00;27;28;08
Rob Lee
So let's let's talk about the upcoming album. Let's get you you teased it a little bit. I liked it.
00;27;28;10 - 00;27;30;02
Ari Voxx
Yeah.
00;27;30;05 - 00;27;38;14
Rob Lee
So so you know, tell us again the name, the album and the the main themes that you're exploring in the work. I got other questions, but I at least want to start off there.
00;27;38;19 - 00;27;51;00
Ari Voxx
Okay, so this will be my first full length album. I've released EP's before and singles, but first full length album it is called I'm Okay. Please stop asking.
00;27;51;02 - 00;27;53;28
Rob Lee
Are you okay?
00;27;54;01 - 00;27;54;25
Rob Lee
Hello.
00;27;54;28 - 00;27;57;28
Ari Voxx
I'm sorry. Um.
00;27;58;00 - 00;28;06;26
Ari Voxx
So there's always been. I feel like I'm a I'm a pretty humorous person. I always kind of, you know, depressed people are normally the funniest people.
00;28;06;29 - 00;28;08;17
Ari Voxx
I would think. So I just like.
00;28;08;17 - 00;28;11;04
Ari Voxx
You know, most stand up comedians are, like.
00;28;11;07 - 00;28;12;24
Ari Voxx
Horribly depressing.
00;28;12;26 - 00;28;27;14
Ari Voxx
So because, I mean, you got to find comedy in the darkness. So, I mean, I feel like there's there's a lot of they can be a lot of humor in in the songs that I've been writing lately. And so, you know, the title of the album is funny because the last track on the album is called I'm Not.
00;28;27;14 - 00;28;44;21
Ari Voxx
Okay. So, you know, that's the punchline. But it's kind of the idea is, you know, you look a certain way. People tell me that I look sad. I'll just walk down the street and I have to have like, sad face, you know? So thank you for something like this.
00;28;44;24 - 00;28;48;11
Ari Voxx
I like that. Some people are like, Are you okay? Are you.
00;28;48;11 - 00;28;55;29
Ari Voxx
Okay? And like, I thought I was okay at first, but the more you ask, the more I'm not. I'd hate now, actually.
00;28;56;02 - 00;29;04;19
Rob Lee
So this morning, text is everything good? Me Just like, Oh, like I'm in a I'm in a deep fryer right now.
00;29;04;22 - 00;29;05;09
Ari Voxx
So.
00;29;05;09 - 00;29;34;16
Ari Voxx
But there's a lot of themes being explored on the album. It's kind of I kind of describe it sometimes as a descent into madness or into darkness. So it starts out with a very, like, boastful, fun, flouncy song called Flamingo, which is kind of about being tall, lanky, weird, not, you know, people make fun of you for it.
00;29;34;16 - 00;29;46;06
Ari Voxx
You know, they call me tacky because I wear head to toe pink. That's fine. But it's about owning that and just being like the fabulous jockey that you are.
00;29;46;09 - 00;29;48;24
Ari Voxx
Yeah.
00;29;48;26 - 00;29;53;15
Ari Voxx
And then it kind of goes all downhill from there.
00;29;53;17 - 00;30;24;11
Ari Voxx
So, yeah, I mean, the song is about depression, alcoholism, anxiety, temptation, doing bad things and maybe not feeling so bad about it. And it kind of, you know, the last song is kind of a culmination of all those things and kind of is the gateway into entering my villain era of I also and there's a Lord, there's going to be allure and the visuals and stuff.
00;30;24;11 - 00;30;44;23
Ari Voxx
I'm all I'm a very I'm a very visual person. I love movies, I love video games like classic games. And you're going to you're going to see and hear like a lot of references, a lot. There's a lot of love, a lot of little Easter eggs thrown into a lot of these things. You may hear a couple of Mario sounds, You may.
00;30;44;23 - 00;30;48;12
Ari Voxx
Hear some Donkey Kong sounds.
00;30;48;14 - 00;30;56;26
Ari Voxx
But yeah, I mean, the lore, I kind of have separated myself from the human.
00;30;56;29 - 00;30;57;19
Ari Voxx
But human.
00;30;57;19 - 00;31;00;27
Ari Voxx
Being that I am.
00;31;00;29 - 00;31;02;23
Ari Voxx
I found it completely honest.
00;31;02;23 - 00;31;04;07
Rob Lee
You know, that's not that sound, so that's great.
00;31;04;11 - 00;31;06;12
Ari Voxx
Okay, cool.
00;31;06;15 - 00;31;29;13
Ari Voxx
Yeah. The lure is that, you know, I've created this separate entity of Ari Vox. She is this character that I can kind of do whatever I want with. She's this fabulous flamingo, but then she slowly is transforming into, I think, pink neon swamp monster and yes, kills the labs.
00;31;29;15 - 00;31;30;17
Ari Voxx
Is the.
00;31;30;17 - 00;31;31;07
Rob Lee
Last like.
00;31;31;07 - 00;31;31;22
Ari Voxx
Yeah, she.
00;31;31;22 - 00;31;50;17
Ari Voxx
Gets she got a little overstimulated okay she kills the LEDs and becomes this dark monster at the end of this album. And then in the next one she is okay. So I'm teasing that even though I'm such a neurotic planner, then I already have my next album planned out.
00;31;50;17 - 00;31;53;14
Rob Lee
And this is how you keep things on your album.
00;31;53;17 - 00;31;55;29
Ari Voxx
And the next album is Creature from the Pink Lagoon.
00;31;56;06 - 00;31;56;17
Rob Lee
I love It.
00;31;56;19 - 00;32;04;24
Ari Voxx
Is going to be a lot of I love horror movies, still going to be a lot of horror references in that one. But she becomes this creature. She resurrects the lads from the dead.
00;32;04;27 - 00;32;05;29
Rob Lee
He's a stalker suddenly.
00;32;05;29 - 00;32;29;16
Ari Voxx
Yes, exactly. It's just it's going to keep getting darker and darker and darker and I'm spiraling, baby. Yeah. So that's kind of that's kind of where the album is going. It's it's there's a sense of darkness, a lot of dreaminess. It's like a dream. I want it to feel surreal. Yeah, that's kind of what I like.
00;32;29;18 - 00;32;53;21
Rob Lee
I like this. I like this description. I mean, when it's not the same, right? But when I get into like an album and I get very, very defensive about the things I enjoy and I remember, what is it? Was it after hours that we can open what have you? And I was just like, Yemen is speaking to me as a moody Aquarius then.
00;32;53;23 - 00;33;17;17
Rob Lee
And I just going through the whole thing and I was like, feel like I'm right there. I'm not a no, but I'm probably from there. But it definitely it takes you to a place and you got to get it. You get a sense of what's going on in someone's mind. So as I listen to you describe it and kind of getting that that that extra sort of texture that's there, it's just like, Oh yeah, no, this makes sense.
00;33;17;17 - 00;33;34;28
Rob Lee
This is has a theatrical thing that's there and it's the different, I think even so far in this conversation, the different parts of your inspirations and the parts of who you are as a person that make up what you've been describing for an album I hadn't even heard yet. Yeah, you know what I mean? So I'm excited for it.
00;33;34;28 - 00;33;38;02
Rob Lee
Yeah, that's the thing. That's that's really interesting. It's like I'm excited for it.
00;33;38;04 - 00;33;39;19
Ari Voxx
Yeah, I'm glad.
00;33;39;21 - 00;33;46;07
Ari Voxx
Because, I mean, life is theatrics, you know, you're you're born naked and the rest is drag. I don't.
00;33;46;07 - 00;33;48;08
Rob Lee
See. I don't see my old boy.
00;33;48;10 - 00;33;49;15
Ari Voxx
Oh, yeah, Yeah.
00;33;49;17 - 00;33;54;02
Rob Lee
It was. Someone was not happy about that.
00;33;54;05 - 00;33;54;20
Ari Voxx
But.
00;33;54;23 - 00;34;20;15
Ari Voxx
You know, I think I just want to create this world, this universe, even Allah, you know, Gorillaz, honestly, like this. This world that me and my like minded can kind of escape to and feel whatever we want to feel like. If we want to feel bad and sad, let's go do.
00;34;20;17 - 00;34;21;20
Rob Lee
Some good soundtrack with it.
00;34;21;25 - 00;34;22;22
Ari Voxx
Yes.
00;34;22;25 - 00;34;30;22
Ari Voxx
Exactly. Because you're going to be you're going to be sad sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. So fucking fucking wallow. I love wallowing.
00;34;30;26 - 00;34;54;06
Rob Lee
I like to put on sad music sometimes. And it was the thing that you said earlier about like when you talking about the process of it's sort of maybe the music that always the lyrics that are there. And I immediately went back to being a moody 17 year old back at City College in Baltimore and like, Yeah, man, I remember listening to Weezer, man.
00;34;54;06 - 00;35;02;12
Rob Lee
I only get dreams, man. Yeah, yeah. I went to that because I was like dating a girl and I didn't realize that she was a lesbian. I was like.
00;35;02;12 - 00;35;03;10
Ari Voxx
Oh, no.
00;35;03;15 - 00;35;22;23
Rob Lee
Oh, this is just not good for me. So is not going to be out will be very interesting. But it took me back there and thinking about sort of, you know, those, those two songs that like Pink Triangle, those those two songs at that time making me in this like a time capsule. Good music is a time capsule.
00;35;23;00 - 00;35;30;22
Rob Lee
It makes you think of where you were at, which you were feeling and all of that and that sort of thing. Like you were keen in on when you were describing like the feeling component.
00;35;30;22 - 00;35;53;27
Ari Voxx
That's what I want because I'm obsessed with nostalgia too. I mean, I've like just this longing feeling of it's like, it's like a sunset. I can't describe it. It's like so fleeting and you just, you know, you want to hit pause and songs can do that for you. So that's kind of I want to help create that. I want to.
00;35;54;01 - 00;36;21;09
Ari Voxx
And that's why I think there's a lot of like eighties influenced, eighties, nineties sounds and stuff in the music that I'm making because I don't know, that was I wasn't really a real person at that time, but like I was around like my siblings, my family and I want to I wanted to hold on to that moment before impending doom was on my mind with the fire in the sky and.
00;36;21;12 - 00;36;21;28
Ari Voxx
Like.
00;36;22;01 - 00;36;42;14
Ari Voxx
Literally and just, man, I had a little like, manic moment yesterday. Just the weather was just weird. I was just feeling strange in the air, like because it was like sunny and raining at the same time. And like the the smoky sky had just happened and the winds were just feeling weird. And I was like, It feels like the world's about to end right now.
00;36;42;17 - 00;36;44;15
Rob Lee
So this is how this would go down.
00;36;44;18 - 00;36;45;16
Ari Voxx
Yeah.
00;36;45;18 - 00;36;52;18
Ari Voxx
You now that it's like the it's like the calm before the storm, you know, when the birds are flying a certain way and then it's like, oh shit.
00;36;52;21 - 00;37;01;09
Rob Lee
I see. I think I want to try to rephrase it, you know, instead of the calm before the storm. It's like the storm before the call. It's going to get back to it. It's going to be up and down, you know, the calm coming. And that's the way I like to look at it.
00;37;01;09 - 00;37;05;15
Ari Voxx
Exactly. It's a it's a circle.
00;37;05;17 - 00;37;11;14
Ari Voxx
And so like.
00;37;11;16 - 00;37;15;27
Rob Lee
That is what a super black bag for the back row, just so you know, for jokes like.
00;37;15;29 - 00;37;16;18
Ari Voxx
That. I don't know.
00;37;16;18 - 00;37;20;20
Rob Lee
Why would you that let me ever do an album? This could be a lot of.
00;37;20;20 - 00;37;21;17
Ari Voxx
Yeah, let's.
00;37;21;17 - 00;37;22;17
Ari Voxx
Do it, man.
00;37;22;20 - 00;37;42;10
Rob Lee
So I got to get this one last sort of real question. And it's, it's about sort of like the upcoming things which you're looking for. You you were teasing it with Creature from the Pink logo, right? Yeah. So you were teasing sort of like, what's next? So in the like in the next few months, Right. What's coming up in the next few months and what are you hoping for in the next few years.
00;37;42;10 - 00;37;45;21
Rob Lee
Like short term, long term, What's on the docket for you?
00;37;45;23 - 00;37;50;24
Ari Voxx
Well, we'll see if I survive 27 this year.
00;37;50;27 - 00;37;52;05
Ari Voxx
You know, I get.
00;37;52;07 - 00;38;14;15
Ari Voxx
Anyway album release show Songbird in August to debut the album there with my full band. I'm planning a little solo tour as well around that. So I'm going to do North Bound just by myself. So it's going to be me singing fancy karaoke.
00;38;14;17 - 00;38;14;24
Ari Voxx
Of.
00;38;14;24 - 00;38;24;21
Ari Voxx
My album to people. So Boston, New York, Philly, and then I'll come back home for the album release, and then I'm going to go down South.
00;38;24;24 - 00;38;26;12
Ari Voxx
Through.
00;38;26;14 - 00;39;03;06
Ari Voxx
Like Raleigh, Charlotte, Asheville, maybe Knoxville, got Atlanta, even all the way down to Florida, like Jacksonville, Gainesville, and then back up. So I'm doing that. And then I think the next kind of plan for my my band, my group and my music is to start looking to go on tour with like bigger acts. Someone I love who's a DC artist that I really look up to is Bertie's Strange, I'm sure you know of him and music.
00;39;03;08 - 00;39;31;29
Ari Voxx
He's yeah, he's kind of, you know, a black artist genre bending and absolutely killing it. So I kind of want to follow down his analogy is like touring with like a national and like, he's all over the world. Yeah. So I want to do that. I just want to spread my sparkly stuff everywhere. I just keep creating. So yeah, the next few years as create as much as I can before I die.
00;39;32;02 - 00;39;32;09
Ari Voxx
You.
00;39;32;09 - 00;39;37;07
Ari Voxx
Know, you never know when it's going to happen. So I'm going to get these albums out, man.
00;39;37;09 - 00;39;38;10
Rob Lee
It's like, Look, I got work to do.
00;39;38;11 - 00;39;39;24
Ari Voxx
Exactly.
00;39;39;26 - 00;39;46;07
Rob Lee
So it's like, Why are you doing so many interviews? Look, man times, I was like, I'm just trying to have my stuff uploaded to church, even.
00;39;46;14 - 00;39;48;09
Ari Voxx
If.
00;39;48;12 - 00;39;49;10
Rob Lee
This will never end.
00;39;49;12 - 00;39;50;00
Ari Voxx
Oh, I.
00;39;50;03 - 00;39;52;18
Rob Lee
Write a script in Rob's voice.
00;39;52;20 - 00;39;54;05
Ari Voxx
That would be fake. Yeah.
00;39;54;07 - 00;40;03;17
Rob Lee
So? So thank you for that. And now all of the goodwill that I've established over the last and we talked for about an hour now, kind of pissed off all the way with these rapid fire questions.
00;40;03;17 - 00;40;05;22
Ari Voxx
All right.
00;40;05;24 - 00;40;11;18
Rob Lee
All right. So here's the first one. And as I said, as I always say, don't overthink the it's going to be fine.
00;40;11;25 - 00;40;12;09
Ari Voxx
Okay?
00;40;12;09 - 00;40;14;02
Rob Lee
It's going to be fine. This one is Journey.
00;40;14;02 - 00;40;15;08
Ari Voxx
Together, okay?
00;40;15;10 - 00;40;21;04
Rob Lee
And this will be a first. How to make it more comfortable. I'll share. Mine's as we do it.
00;40;21;07 - 00;40;22;10
Ari Voxx
Okay.
00;40;22;12 - 00;40;26;06
Rob Lee
Okay. First one. Favorite movie.
00;40;26;08 - 00;40;27;11
Ari Voxx
Okay.
00;40;27;13 - 00;40;33;18
Ari Voxx
Okay. Okay. Couple. I can't. I don't really have favorite three. Okay, I'll do.
00;40;33;20 - 00;40;34;17
Ari Voxx
It.
00;40;34;20 - 00;40;56;22
Ari Voxx
So it's known as dead Alive or Brain Dead? One of Peter Jackson's first movie. I remember it. Okay. Yeah. So very hokey, campy zombie movie set in New Zealand. Of course. Amazing. I love that frickin Jurassic Park 30th anniversary.
00;40;56;22 - 00;40;56;29
Rob Lee
Go.
00;40;57;06 - 00;41;14;12
Ari Voxx
Yeah. Dinosaurs and, oh, like the last unicorn. Look, we're like Neverending Story. I like those. Like the kinds of things. That's all right. Yeah.
00;41;14;14 - 00;41;16;29
Rob Lee
RoboCop, the original.
00;41;17;01 - 00;41;17;20
Ari Voxx
Okay.
00;41;17;22 - 00;41;20;09
Rob Lee
Because sometimes you got a few to do in the dick. I don't have to tell you.
00;41;20;14 - 00;41;25;17
Ari Voxx
I mean, most of the time.
00;41;25;19 - 00;41;32;11
Rob Lee
Rocky four because it came on 1985, the year I was born, and Rocky saves us against the Russians. So why not dirty.
00;41;32;11 - 00;41;36;20
Ari Voxx
Comedies, Dirty cops Me, I'm a dirty got me.
00;41;36;22 - 00;41;39;23
Rob Lee
And probably into the dragon. I really like Bruce Lee movies.
00;41;39;29 - 00;41;41;05
Ari Voxx
Okay also.
00;41;41;07 - 00;41;42;06
Ari Voxx
Yeah.
00;41;42;08 - 00;41;44;13
Rob Lee
What's your go to comfort food?
00;41;44;16 - 00;41;46;02
Ari Voxx
Ramen noodles.
00;41;46;04 - 00;41;46;13
Rob Lee
That's it.
00;41;46;13 - 00;41;48;08
Ari Voxx
Should be like oodles of noodles.
00;41;48;10 - 00;41;49;13
Rob Lee
Okay. Don't don't. Don't read it.
00;41;49;19 - 00;41;50;07
Ari Voxx
What doesn't?
00;41;50;08 - 00;41;54;23
Ari Voxx
But like, you know, like the little city for $0.50. You can buy.
00;41;54;25 - 00;41;54;28
Ari Voxx
That.
00;41;55;00 - 00;42;09;02
Ari Voxx
Fancy it up I put. Okay, so I make it. You know the water. Yeah. I put soy sauce with sesame oil or garlic powder, cayenne, crushed red pepper, maybe dashi powder. If it's on hand, put the noodles in crack and egg in there.
00;42;09;09 - 00;42;10;02
Ari Voxx
Okay. All right.
00;42;10;03 - 00;42;12;17
Ari Voxx
Chop up some green onion. I'm boujee.
00;42;12;20 - 00;42;15;09
Ari Voxx
I mean, I'm in sesame seeds.
00;42;15;16 - 00;42;18;04
Ari Voxx
Crack a black pepper on Top Chef.
00;42;18;04 - 00;42;23;25
Rob Lee
Yes, Yes, I like it. It's a cross between me ordering chicken parm.
00;42;23;27 - 00;42;25;03
Ari Voxx
Okay.
00;42;25;05 - 00;42;31;15
Rob Lee
Tasty or chicken tikka masala? But the mild plus not too hot, but hot enough.
00;42;31;19 - 00;42;33;16
Ari Voxx
Okay. I like. I like it a spice.
00;42;33;19 - 00;42;37;13
Rob Lee
I'm one of those dudes. All right? Or just like, give me all of the sushi.
00;42;37;16 - 00;42;42;09
Ari Voxx
Yeah, I'm not really a fish. Go. What? But fish sushi is, like, really cute. Like.
00;42;42;11 - 00;42;43;10
Ari Voxx
I really want.
00;42;43;10 - 00;42;44;08
Ari Voxx
To be into it.
00;42;44;08 - 00;42;46;23
Ari Voxx
Because, like, the esthetic is on brand. I feel like.
00;42;46;24 - 00;42;53;02
Rob Lee
I haven't said this in a while. One of my aliases is Young Fish. Oh, okay. I've been told I have a Lewis Fishburne energy. So it's young.
00;42;53;02 - 00;42;55;27
Ari Voxx
Fish. Young fish. Okay, I do.
00;42;56;00 - 00;43;10;27
Rob Lee
Um, so I like I like to travel to New Orleans. That's my favorite vacation spot, Right. Um, culture, all of that stuff is do you have a favorite vacation spot, a place to decompress, kind of just get reconnected, things of that nature?
00;43;10;29 - 00;43;20;15
Ari Voxx
Well, I kind of have only recently been able to start traveling because I'm a broke out bitch, bitch, bitch.
00;43;20;17 - 00;43;23;23
Rob Lee
That was not a sound effect. Let's.
00;43;23;26 - 00;43;24;14
Ari Voxx
Oh.
00;43;24;17 - 00;43;39;17
Ari Voxx
But I have been lucky enough to take of myself to go to Paris a couple of times now. Go on Paris. London. I didn't really like London. I liked Paris. They love me there. I love the.
00;43;39;21 - 00;43;41;16
Ari Voxx
French like they're nice.
00;43;41;16 - 00;44;01;18
Ari Voxx
To me. And oh, they love me in Dublin too. Ever was really nice. I was like, Oh, I thought, I don't know. For some reason I thought Irish people were going to be like me. But they're nice. Yeah, and they love it there. It was really beautiful. But I am like a warm weather person for sure. I can see that.
00;44;01;21 - 00;44;16;09
Ari Voxx
I love the cities and I love architecture and like history and art and food. But take me to the goddamn beach. Well, yeah. I went on a girls trip to Puerto Rico recently, and I think I might want to just frickin move there.
00;44;16;10 - 00;44;17;24
Ari Voxx
Because.
00;44;17;26 - 00;44;26;21
Ari Voxx
It was so beautiful and people are nicer to food slops, you know, I'm kind of an island girl.
00;44;26;23 - 00;44;28;13
Rob Lee
I'm hearing that.
00;44;28;15 - 00;44;33;04
Ari Voxx
Yeah, I guess. Give me a B and Galata with my ass out at all times.
00;44;33;10 - 00;44;36;13
Ari Voxx
That's. That's how I want to live my way.
00;44;36;15 - 00;44;38;24
Rob Lee
As if know if we could only dream.
00;44;38;27 - 00;44;40;15
Ari Voxx
Yeah, well.
00;44;40;18 - 00;44;48;00
Rob Lee
This is the last one I got for you. And this is. I think we already have the answer, but I'm going to ask you to take. Yes, you already have. The answer.
00;44;48;03 - 00;44;52;05
Ari Voxx
Is one. My favorite literally was, um.
00;44;52;08 - 00;45;16;27
Ari Voxx
So, yeah, it was like a dusty rose is kind of the vibe, but anything like pastel and like, dreamy, like clouds, cotton candy, like sunset colors and, you know, I people, I kind of wear the same color every day. I'm one of those people that I could eat the same thing every day, listen to the same song over and over again and never get tired.
00;45;17;03 - 00;45;20;26
Ari Voxx
Like I, don't know why.
00;45;20;28 - 00;45;45;24
Ari Voxx
But but I think this this pink thing. So it's only that the past couple of years when I've started I'm like, I like this color. I'm everything I buy now is going to be pink. My room, my house house is pink. And I think it's because I'm kind of reverting back to that childlike thing, like things that I liked when I was a young, like five or six.
00;45;45;29 - 00;46;03;29
Ari Voxx
I was obsessed with Pink Barbie and all that, but then I kind of grew up and shit got hard hit, my parents split up, and then it was like, all black, like emo. Yes, I have an emo phase. I had the straightened the relaxed hair.
00;46;03;29 - 00;46;09;11
Ari Voxx
With a bang that I had that were fried and.
00;46;09;13 - 00;46;35;20
Ari Voxx
And, you know, became this kind of dark soul. And I think just having the color pink around me all the time just kind of uplifts me and brings me back to, like, that kind of childlike wonder or just like just the appreciation of simple things. How simple a color can just uplift your mood. Yeah. So that's why I'm kind of all in.
00;46;35;23 - 00;46;43;09
Rob Lee
I love it. Midtown for me, always gray, burgundy, Just something. It's just like Rob's always I.
00;46;43;09 - 00;46;45;10
Ari Voxx
Get burgundy vibes. For me, I'm a burgundy.
00;46;45;16 - 00;46;49;09
Rob Lee
You or I call it Oxblood. A lot of my enemies.
00;46;49;09 - 00;46;51;12
Ari Voxx
Oh, okay.
00;46;51;16 - 00;46;53;18
Rob Lee
There's a dark side that I don't put in here too often.
00;46;53;18 - 00;46;55;14
Ari Voxx
Oh, I love that. Okay.
00;46;55;16 - 00;46;58;22
Rob Lee
So. So with that one, I want to thank you for coming on to this podcast.
00;46;58;23 - 00;46;59;07
Ari Voxx
Thank you.
00;46;59;07 - 00;47;13;16
Rob Lee
This has been a treat and you are great. And with that, I want to give you the space to share the final moments where folks can check you out. Social media, website, all that good stuff. The floor is yours. Okay.
00;47;13;18 - 00;47;30;22
Ari Voxx
Well, yeah, you can. You can find me at Ari dot Vox on Instagram. I guess this Google Ari Vox that's a I dot v as in voluptuous 0xxy, two xs because three is too exciting and one is not exciting enough.
00;47;30;24 - 00;47;32;03
Ari Voxx
It's great.
00;47;32;06 - 00;47;50;20
Rob Lee
So again, thank you for coming on to the podcast and I'm loudly saying that there's art and culture in and around your neck of the woods. You've just got to look for it.
