{"id":25244,"date":"2016-12-31T12:43:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T12:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=25244"},"modified":"2016-12-31T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T12:43:29","slug":"six-quick-questions-for-corrina-jaye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/12\/six-quick-questions-for-corrina-jaye\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Quick Questions For Corrina Jaye"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2017 is only a few hours away for us here in the UK and Ireland, and so what better way to usher in the new year than by catching up with Irish singer\/songwriter Corrina Jaye, who answers Six Quick Questions for us!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

EP: What\u2019s the Corrina Jaye story?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CJ: Corrina likes to write songs. A lot. I do love writing, I adore making melodies, it’s really effortless for me.\u00a0 <\/span>The hard crux involved with finishing a song and getting it to a production level until you’re 100% satisfied with whole thing and process of getting it out there to the public in the right package is another ball game though. It is a complex but addicting relationship, one I can never see quite myself relinquishing. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have been writing songs for about 15 years now but it was only 4 years ago that I had that inner confidence to say I’m actually gonna go for this. I am going to take this metaphorical bull by the horns and try my damnedest to make this work. I have been tossed around a few times but here I am still holding on.<\/span><\/p>\n

I released ‘Dark Room’ in November 2012 and it did really well for me. Not quite viral but close, I did a “50 shades” theme which at the time was on the periphery of just about everyone’s consciousness and it just kind of tapped in to that. After that I released my first EP, sold out Whelan’s upstairs and did a National Tour with my lovely band. In 2014 I released an electro pop track “‘Gold’ which got a fair bit attention from blogs but it really is my most recent single that has gotten the most radio play and blog attention to date. <\/span><\/p>\n

EP: Your track, ‘What Do You Want?’ was released back in October and has seen some considerable success – how did it end up as the soundtrack for the 2016 Irish Film Festival London trailer? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CJ: They approached me about it, Panti Bliss<\/a> a well known and celebrated Irish drag queen who actually released her own film\/documentary on her life, ‘The Queen Of Ireland’ in 2016, heard the song, loved it and tweeted about it. As the Irish Film Festival in London were helping promote her film they got wind of it and they contacted me straight away saying that they had been looking for the perfect track and been unsuccessful and mine fit the bill perfectly and could they use it. I said let me think about it…not! Well I said let me check with my co-writer PaSv (Patrik Svennson) which I did and we were both really delighted. It really was a great feeling and I loved the job they did on trailer, it was great to be associated with such a high degree of Irish film talent in an international setting like that. <\/span><\/p>\n

EP: Do you have any New Year’s Resolutions? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CJ: The usual I think, to get fitter, keep healthy (not bad but could always improve). Continue to make music and find a way that helps reach my music I write to as many ears as possible. And generally just try to become a better, happier, stronger version of the person that I am right now. To be more self-disciplined and less reactive.<\/span><\/p>\n

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