Identity

As an artist I will go as Jack Perry right now, I play guitar to a degree and sing terribly and want to get around to directing music videos and films. I'm planning on making a lot of indie and anti pop, as well as any genre I feel like. I enjoy the idea of genre mixing, I like fluidity. I consider myself interesting as I have no actual clue what I'm planning to do in music yet, I say I'm making indie but I haven't actually made a song that resembles anything close to indie, I think a lot of this is due to my many different inspirations such as old rock, soul, old school hip hop, trap, britpop etc.

I want to project a very do it yourself type of image, taking inspiration from a lot of indie artists about right now. A lot of them use a VHS filter to give off an old school vibe which is something I am definitely going to be using in videos. I don't want things to look complicated but I want to also be able to put as much effort into making the videos look good as I can and be interesting.

I want my fanbase to be any and everyone. I don't want my music to be set for a specific person, I don't want to limit myself. Certain songs would probably be for a certain demographic but I want to be able to show anyone my music and have them understand it in someway, old or young. But young people would probably be the group I market myself to, as I feel like if you want to make any change in the music industry thats where to start, then if you get the attention let everyone get into it once you're mainstream.

I will be releasing an EP hopefully by the end of the summer, as it's my first project I've ever released I'll be releasing it on soundcloud and youtube primarily, but if it gains any sort of attention, I'll release it on platforms like bandcamp which offer payment options. I've realised in this age of music being consistent is what matters most, I'd like to have one year where I release 3 albums and just flood people with as much music as I can but obviously I need to have some sort of platform/audience before I attempt anything like that. As I mentioned before I want to direct, so directing my own music videos for this project as well as friends would probably be a good place to start.

I mentioned my inspirations earlier but only by genre. The person who got me into music and playing guitar was Noel Gallagher. I just connected with the first 2 albums Oasis made as well as The Masterplan as I think I was probably a bit lost back then and wasn't really into much in terms of hobbies, so I found something to get into which lead me down looking into the Manchester music scene which has a rich history of musicians. Then I got into Bowie who is probably biggest inspiration so far, as he was so versatile in all aspects of life, he wasn't afraid to change in music or his public persona which after seeing someone do the things he done and acted the way he did during interviews gave me more confidence and made me pursue music in college. But at this point in time I identify with someone like Kevin Abstract, he's a gay rapper born in the American suburbs attempting the challenge of being gay in what was a very homophobic place in music at one point and definitely still is at times. I'm not gay or a rapper but being from the suburbs around a lot of people who have no care for pursuing any type of creative subject and always feeling like a bit of an outcast in schools I could definitely relate with him. He is still finding his sound and is very successful at pulling off a combination of pop and hip hop, before getting into him I never thought I'd be attempting vocals like I am right now but Brockhampton got me around to trying it properly.