Mael over zijn inspiraties, R&B muziek in Nederland en samenwerking met Latifah | NEW VIBES ONLY

In deze aflevering van NEW VIBES ONLY praten we met Mael over zijn EP “Liefde Is Niet Simpel”. ❤️🎶

Wil je weten wat Mael vind van de R&B muziek die de laatste jaren wordt gemaakt? 👁️‍🗨️
Waarom hij Hef de GOAT noemt en hoe hij het vond om samen te werken met Latifah? 🐐 Check dan nu deze aflevering.

Tijdscodes:

00:55 Zijn die situaties waarover Mael zingt en rapt ook echt dingen die hij zelf hebt meegemaakt?
02:29 Waar haalt Mael de inspiratie vandaan voor het maken zijn tracks?
03:51 Waarom noemt hij Hef de GOAT?
06:10 Hoe is Mael's samenwerking met Latifah op het nummer "Leg Mij Uit" tot stand gekomen?
08:06 Waar komt Mael vandaan?
11:24 Wat is het verhaal achter zijn track "Het Is Over"?
13:37 Hoe behoud Mael zijn eigen sound ondanks dat hij werkt met veel verschillende producers?
14:29 Met welke producers wilt Mael nog samenwerken?
14:56 Hoe beslist Mael welke nummers hij uitbrengt?
16:42 Wat vind Mael van de R&B muziek die de laatste jaren word gemaakt in Nederland?
18:03 Wat kunnen we in de toekomst nog verwachten van Mael?

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:03

Welcome to New Fibes. Only today I'm with Mael and we're going to talk about his EP.

Speaker 2: 0:22

Please blunt. I'm just a little green and I can't go over it. You know, if I can do what you can do too Was in. My self-righteousness wasn't open to me. I was going to steal myself with that fake. You're that old rose. I have to go on. You know my heart is cold as hell In December. In December.

Speaker 1: 0:46

But, el, you dropped some new vibes for us. I love Disney Simple. I think it's something that people can find On this project. You have moments where it goes well In love. Where you're in love, everything goes well, and there are moments when it just goes a little less, that you're a bit of a heartbroken. Are there things about your sync that really make you feel like you're part of it?

Speaker 3: 1:12

Yes, certainly, I think 80% of what I've done with these things, but on the other hand, it's just situations that I might have seen or where I just got up at that moment, and it's also just a period where love wasn't really simple. So I think that's why I was able to make these pockers and that it was ultimately the idea At the beginning. It was the first idea to make a whole love EP About that on the web, but it just went like that and I think that's how it should be Crazy and Love, give me a little bit of the Casey Jojo vibe, the old school R&B vibe.

Speaker 1: 2:28

Where do you get your inspiration from making your tracks?

Speaker 3: 2:32

Anyway, from old school R&B. I used to play R&B in the car Like R Kelly, casey, jojo, all those people, and then I was listening to them and watching them and I felt like I might be doing that too. So there's a lot of inspiration from that and the things I see in my daily life, people around me where I get a lot of inspiration and I think that's why I'm back in the R&B In the Netherlands because of my sync and how I convey it. Crazy and Love is that rock of all both.

Speaker 2: 3:36

So what's up, my friend? Why are you all in the dark? My ashes left me like I'm nothing.

Speaker 1: 3:44

I feel you down, but that is something I wanna know. In your track FTH, you also throw a few bars. You're a little bit on the edge. You have a line there. I'm the goat like Bandus. For the people who don't understand, you can explain what you mean by that.

Speaker 3: 4:06

Bandus is just a hip band. Why I say that is because he's someone in the Dutch scene In the game that is 10 years or longer. He's relevant and people also say about him that he's a goat and what he's like. I wanna just do that and I think that, as an artist, that's what I have to say about him. The important thing is that I'm still a relevant person over the next 10 years and that it can lead to success.

Speaker 2: 5:02

Yes, you're an egg there, it's just a piece of cake. You're my wins one. You're my medal. What I'm for, deem, come to who I am. Yeah, nobody can say Fall in love with you again. Yeah, do so much, lovey, then I give you support for you and your friends. When you're the love food song, you're the lovey, lovey, big wheeler, baby fire, fuck the pilling Coney, coney, full of good times. So me, niggas this is in funny, funny Mockin ring calls You're my major. Why don't you suffocate me, baby, that will I do. Why don't you suffocate me, baby? Yes, nobody else owns You're power. Team me, my, your new ability, my melanin, goddess for you.

Speaker 2: 5:34

I'm singing a song, my heart. Now I'm in the sun, but it's like I'm in the dark. I was a little beginner, but I'm not a nerd. You're lying. You're doing it right, but what about my words? You're lying to me. Why are you so in love, love, you know what that costs. You blow my mind. I'm like a steamboat, but feelings, they are fucking hot. You're lying to me. You're doing so my best, but why am I not good with that? You're lying to me. I got a ex-female love. You're lying to me. You know what that costs. Papi is the flyer. She's a kring and I'm with you. I swear it's got you. You're doing.

Speaker 1: 6:10

On your track. Let me out. You have a super cool future Of one of the artists in the Netherlands, which I think is really cool. And then we have it about Latifah. How has that cooperation happened?

Speaker 3: 6:23

I met Latifah two or three years ago In the studio at Reefers I think. I was often there and it just clicks where a good vibe, because they're on the right track and they just feel my music. And when I made that pop song Last year we just DMed each other Like you might want to do that pop song. I sent that tune and they really liked it and it was really enthusiastic. So they just do it. They just tap that verse and it's just history.

Speaker 1: 6:57

You also had thoughts about that track.

Speaker 3: 7:00

I had the same thoughts about that. I thought I should have a feminine voice About that.

Speaker 2: 7:31

So let's see what gives no better option than the brush. What Baby? I'm not a fan of coffee, no more. I'm solo with your one bracket. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not a fan of the world. Yeah, yeah, I'm not a fan of the world. Cash, cash. I don't want to be a bad man. I'm a bad ass man. Don't be lovin'. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Balan, yeah, she, balan, yeah, Balan, she a girl, she calling me, she be callin' her my name. I'm a fan of the girl. I'm the only one. You know I'm a middle-aged and you really feel my heart's a beam.

Speaker 1: 8:07

You're track rockin'. You say I'm not from there. Yeah, but where exactly do you come from? You know? From the people who don't know you.

Speaker 3: 8:17

Yeah, I come from Harlem. I'm from Harlem North and I'm not born. I was born in Friesland. But then my father came to me and asked me to play football. So we just had a little time there and then, yeah, we did, but yeah, I just couldn't. Nobody helped me, nobody. I actually believed in myself, my music. I used to lie down I didn't really sing because I was a band but and I used to think, why don't I live in Amsterdam or in Rotterdam? You know everything happens there. But eventually I thought, because I just lived where I lived, that I developed myself and that nobody really heard me, that I have a unique sound. So that's just the comfort. I pushed myself to where I am now and I just keep doing that.

Speaker 1: 9:07

Absolutely. And how did you get that? Because what you say you come from Harlem. That's maybe a city, a smaller city than Amsterdam and Rotterdam, when you might have to work harder to see people here and think, hey, we can go a little further with this. How did you get that?

Speaker 3: 9:27

Not even once per se. I used to be a football player. My father was a football player. I thought I should do this too, but in principle I always knew about it. This is not going to happen.

Speaker 3: 9:38

But I didn't know that it would be music, because I was a player. I didn't sing all of a sudden, I was just watching from my brother and my camera. It was safe. My parents often told me to put something on YouTube or Instagram or something, but I always knew about it, that it was there. It's not even conscious that. I thought I wanted to do it now, but I just went to Instagram and it just took it out and then I got myself to believe that it might work.

Speaker 1: 10:10

I know you from the videos of Instagram. That's why.

Speaker 3: 10:15

That was the trigger. I was like, wait a minute, maybe this is just my call, I have to do this, and that I didn't go to the movies to shoot a video every day. I just waited. When I feel like I want to do something, I try to get myself to do it.

Speaker 2: 10:58

I don't want to go back anymore. I'm going to fire while I'm busy. Trust me, it's broken. So you tell your mother and your sister it's over, it's over, you're stuck in my back.

Speaker 1: 11:12

I'm going to find a lot more in the house. You said it wasn't conscious. Why don't you listen to me? It's over, it's over. Your track is over. You set yourself up quite quickly. You ended up with a relationship. You had a partner with a ex. He was surprised. Did you really help with that song? With the lyrics? No, but not really, because it didn't happen it just happened.

Speaker 3: 11:42

It's just a situation. I was just in the beat. I was like I didn't listen to you. I was just in the beat, I had the hook and I thought I have to break it. But it's not the situation that really happened to me.

Speaker 3: 11:59

My ex is not going to be happy Because she's coming back. People think what's wrong? It didn't happen. We're still cool with each other. Our relationship was just over Because we were in a lot of trouble and then we just decided it's clear, but it's just. It's not a real life situation for me. No exactly, maybe for other people as well, and that was also the thought that other people could relate to that tune.

Speaker 1: 12:27

Yes, that's why I'm asking this question. I think a lot of people have been in this sort of situation and the way you say it in that pocky, it really depends on you, you know If you really feel that you're in it, that you think oh shit, man, you know.

Speaker 3: 12:44

No, that's good to hear, because that's what the purpose of the final step is, because you can just bring it over, and I also didn't make myself a part of it. I can just imagine how it might be for people. Yes, exactly. So that's why I think you just feel that.

Speaker 2: 13:13

I'm sitting alone in the wall. You're the type that stays short as fast as my love is in the wall, but why am I still in the wall? You've worked on this EP with many different producers.

Speaker 1: 13:41

But you still have your own sound. How did you do that, so that you really work with different people but really have your own sound?

Speaker 3: 13:52

That's a good question, but I think I'm so selective with the beats I get because with who I sit and I think I've taken 70% of this EP at home and that's why I really come to my senses, because I fix everything in the project. So I think that, yeah, I don't have a precise explanation for it, but I just know what I do and what I can do and how I make my own songs. So that's why I think I come to my senses.

Speaker 1: 14:28

Do you still have any other producers you want to work with?

Speaker 3: 14:32

Yes, enough with Spanker. I've worked with him, but now I'm a bit more, so I would like to work with him. Shafiq Roman Shirek Revers. I haven't really done that much, so that's enough, but I'm so far from being a G, so you're enough.

Speaker 1: 14:56

Are you really someone who makes all the songs you want to release, or do you make a lot of songs and choose between what you release?

Speaker 3: 15:06

No, I have a lot of songs that I haven't released For me. I do release songs that I've played myself dead, so if I really listen to that song all day, then I know that it's good. So I have a lot of songs that I've released, but I just selectively release the best songs to the people. I also feel that I've released something that I feel good about myself.

Speaker 2: 16:01

I'm not letting it go today. I'm just shaking on my way to God what I'm gonna say. I saw you all up there. That's why you're so good today. You like to mix with Kalani and Beyoncé. That's why I'm willing to put you in the wrong way so that you can get out of there. Hey, where are you now? I'm not gonna ask you what to do. They say tell me what it is like. That's easy to say. I know you're lying.

Speaker 1: 16:43

I've felt that R&B in the Netherlands is not really valued If you compare it to America or other countries. Do you have that feeling? I?

Speaker 3: 16:52

definitely have that feeling, but I also think that it's not really. I correct me if I'm wrong, but you know that there are not really people who can really translate that, and I also often feel that the R&B that is meant is really the old school R&B. But we are in 2021 now. That's what I think, and I don't know what R&B is these days. I think it was so far that it's a bit mixed, because what I always say is that my back is R&B, but I can just go far away, so I can also sing on a bubbling beat, but my voice is still R&B. So I think I just want to bring it to the people. So that's why I also see that my EP, for example, fth, is not R&B time beat or something. It's a bit of a trap, right, but if you hear me sing, you know my voice is R&B, so that's why I just want to bring it.

Speaker 1: 18:03

And what can we expect in the future?

Speaker 3: 18:06

Like my album, which I'm currently working on and will be released soon. I don't know when it will be released, but maybe it will be released soon. Then it will be released soon. Don't Leave. It's not a love session. I'm more into it, but you can expect that from me.

Speaker 1: 18:24

I'm super curious about it. Anyway, keep going, because I really like what you do. Since the beginning, I've started to check my Instagram videos, so keep going. For those who haven't checked Love is Not Simple yet. Check it out and take care.