boywithahalo shares:
[The song is about starting new chapters in your life.
When I was stuck overseas for over a year in mainland China during the pandemic lockdowns, I contemplated various paths my life trajectory could take from that point on. I had no job, I had no audience, and all of the little amount of friends I had back in the US were inaccessible now due to the firewall and distance, and everything stood still for a long while. At times it felt peaceful, being able to live with my grandparents again like I did when I was young. At times it felt like I have lost direction, stuck frozen in place and going nowhere at the same time. This song embodies my inner struggle with belonging, and ends on an optimistic note of approaching acceptance and confidence. The backbones of the song was completely during my stay in China, and was finalized when I returned to the States.
I also wanted to release this song specifically this moment, as I have just joined AWAL/Kobalt, a goal that I have been looking to achieve since before I left the US in January of 2020. After hard work and extensive self-led management and PR, I was able to now start a whole new level of my career, and I felt like this song really resonated that idea to its fullest extent. I am forever thankful to AWAL for giving me the push to find a new level of drive, and I am all the same thankful to publications and writers for considering my "story".]
"story" does sound like an opening to more stories and dreams. It plays like the theme of an evocative upcoming Netflix binger. I envision the series to be about the young and their challenges navigating through a broken world left that way by those who came before. Those who had no regard for the feelings of other but only themselves.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Boywithahalo is an independent Asian-American musician, fashion designer, artist, and content creator with works expanding across multiple genres and scenes. He uses a DIY approach to music, creating everything from the songwriting to the production and final mastering. Boywithahalo is also a streamer on Twitch and occasionally creates gaming and variety content on YouTube.
The "boywithahalo" brand pushes an emotive, expressive sound filled with youthful gen-Z and millennial themes, an approach compared to contemporaries girl in red and Rostam, while convicting attitude akin to the indie rock of Metric with the spirit of classic dreampop acts like Slowdive.
His debut single "help" was released in February 2021, signaling a new musical direction as a solo independent artist. His Spotify currently averages 6k month listeners and 30k+ total streams.
In the past as a hiphop producer, he has collaborated and supported prominent acts in the background such as Future, Asian Doll, Queen Naija, and Jayson Lyric, working multi-platinum music producers such as Major Seven, Fresh Ayr (J Oliver), Oktober 1st, and Lonestarrmuzik.
Some career highlights include music placements for XXL Magazine, winning 1st place in iStandard's 2017 Producer Showcase and placing finalist in its international competition held in ATL, and nomination for "Best Song" on the highly respected Dallas Observer news publication in 2020.
Boywithahalo is also a YouTube creator and Twitch streamer who has played multiple sessions with well-known individuals in the community such as DNP3, Masterfiend, and PhokingTV, and he currently plays Among Us with a regular group of other streamer friends.
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