Legends

Kourtney and I had a meeting the other day and in this meeting we were asked to describe ourselves and the artists/niche we were inspired to shape our career after. And this question is probably the number one asked, especially here in Nashville. EVERYONE wants to know who you sound like, what’s your style, what’s your genre and honestly, I’m fine answering. We have concocted a pretty reasonable answer that goes something like…if Aly & AJ made music with the Goo Goo Dolls, and invited Taylor Swift over for some tea and coffee, and they collaborated with the likes of Simon and Garfunkel, Heart, and Joni Mitchell, you’d find the door to REVIE.

It’s fine, this curiosity, and I have come to even appreciate it. It opens up opportunity to really shed light on our inspirations over the years but what I see happening, is the breeding of repetition. I go solid months at a time, even years, before I find someone, or something truly unique. Everywhere you look, it’s a copycat idea with a different face and name. Everyone in their car saying “Have you ever dumped someone and then immediately ordered pizza? Then this song is for you!” And for once, I just want to scream from the rooftops WHERE IS THE ORIGINALITY?????????????????? (That might have been too many question marks)

So, we’re sitting in this meeting and we’re being asked who we wanted to look like and be like and I just blurted out “REVIE.” I want to look like REVIE, and sound like REVIE. I don’t want to be known as the girls who cover Taylor swift, or write like Elton John, or sound like Aly & AJ, I want to be the women who sound like REVIE. That’s our brand. That’s our move.

To many, this may seem weak and full of far too much grandiose belief that this could be successful but it begs the question: what is successful? To me, it isn’t being signed to a record label, or nabbing that oh so illusive publishing deal. Success is about not caving to the norm, the societal understanding that if everyone does it, that’s what will sell. NO. I refuse. I refuse to have a schtick, I refuse to do something I wouldn’t normally do for views, or become a viral sensation. After all, there’s an endless sea of sameness and I CRAVE different, original, organic, and REAL.

I don’t believe REVIE will be a phenomenon because we achieve small success for a short time. We are legends. And legends have something to say that can’t be said in one song, one video, one moment. Legends must have something to say that cannot be satiated ever. That’s what makes a legend.

You see, the only time I hope to look like someone is when that someone has proven that music, art, having something to say will fall out of you no matter your circumstance, your financial status, or your popularity. If you are writing music to be the NEXT. BIG. THING, your priorities are all wrong, friend. You become the NEXT. BIG. THING when you write from honest places because you **have to** because there are no alternate paths, no different career moves to make. Music is in you, around you, and you can’t escape it.

That’s when legends are made.

-KP