{"id":10733,"date":"2015-05-08T11:26:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T10:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=10733"},"modified":"2015-05-08T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T10:26:45","slug":"katie-nicholas-dizzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/05\/katie-nicholas-dizzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Nicholas – ‘Dizzy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you read our interview with Katie Nicholas<\/a>, you’ll know she’s recently released her debut album, ‘Dizzy’. We love this album. A lot. What struck us about it though was just how personal an album Dizzy is\u00a0– and so when it came time to review it, we decided we couldn’t do it any more justice than Katie Nicholas could herself…so we asked her to go through it, track by track, and let us know what it meant to her. So in an Essentially Pop first, we hand over to Katie.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

\"Katie<\/p>\n

So all the tracks on my debut album Dizzy (and any track I write) are normally based upon my own experience… which is probably a risky thing to confess!\u00a0I find as soon as I feel something or am inspired by a life event, I rely on writing a song to articulate my often confused feelings.\u00a0I used to get plenty of writers-block but since changing my outlook on how I use “songwriting”, I no longer feel the need to think too hard about what to write, instead I try to get things off my chest or\u00a0use what’s around me.\u00a0It can sometimes surprise me as I often tend to lock up what I truly feel, so it’s strange to watch my subconscious ideas take shape so freely…\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>Chemistry<\/strong><\/p>\n

The earliest track on the album, and one which I wrote for my boyfriend at the time. My homemade video for it ended up taking off virally on YT when a producer shared it, hitting 100,000 views.<\/p>\n

It was very genuine and real song for me!\u00a0I was a very cheesy romantic seventeen-year-old back then and\u00a0I had always wanted to write something for my boyfriend.\u00a0I had found the guitar part prior to the final lyrics but it took me a few goes to find the ones that felt right in my eyes. It always felt too generic and typical to begin with.<\/p>\n

It started to click when I combined the things we love – my fascination with the stars (you’ll find many references in my songs!) with his love for the TV show, Big Bang Theory. With that and a scientific link, I ended up playing around with relevant words such as radioactive, Isaac Newton, gravity and equation… Not to miss the obvious pinnacle of the song,\u00a0“Chemistry” – to describe how we fitted so nicely together!<\/p>\n

I’ve always felt that Chemistry helped me realise early on that I have a very stylistic way of writing and it allowed me to have faith in my formulaic approach.<\/p>\n

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