Atlanta based musician Faye Webster, who is also a passionate photographer, has just released her third studio album ‘Atlanta Millionaires Club’ . The songs on it deal with the feeling of loneliness in the middle of an existing community. “I spend most of my time alone and that’s where these songs come from.” explains Faye to us. Her music spreads a melancholic charm and there is something truly unique about her sound and her music videos tell their own intriguing stories. We talk to her about the inspiration her dad gave her for the album´s title and her main reason to make music.
Tell us about your musical beginnings, did music already play a big role in your life as a child or did you discover your passion for it later on?
I just grew up around people who played music in my family so I was always exposed to it.
The main reason for you to make music is…?
To make other people feel what I feel.
Your new album is called „Atlanta Millionaires Club“ –the name inspired by your dad´s group of friends, right? How come?
My dad and all his friends used to call themselves that, even to this day when I meet one of my dad’s friends they will still say they are one of the Millionaires and that instantly means to me that they are a good friend. I don’t know I’ve always found that very special.
With your third studio album you wanted to get to the bottom of this feeling of loneliness in the middle of an existing community. I believe that is something you experience personally, right? And what does that feeling do to you?
I spend most of my time alone and that’s where these songs come from.
What other topics do you sing about on your new album?
I sing a lot about my dog. It’s almost unnoticeable but it’s there.
“The main reason for me to make music is to make other people feel what I feel.”
It´s important to you to develop and refine your own sound, without being too influenced by current trends. How can one picture your song-writing process?
I always write songs in one take, I never do revisions or think about it too hard I like to keep my songs raw and imperfect.
Do you anyhow have a few role models in music, people you admire and that inspire you?
David Sedaris, Kehinde Wiley, Ronald Acuna Jr.
If you would have a huge amount of money and all the freedom, what would you do with your time?
I would move to Italy and buy my parents a boat and bring wine that I made from my vineyard to the boat and post up.
What was your favourite fairy tale as a child and why?
Do angels in outfield count? That shit had me *moved*.
“If I had a huge amount of money and all the freedom, I would move to Italy and buy my parents a boat and bring wine that I made from my vineyard to the boat and post up.”
Do you have a life plan or you take life as it comes?
Definitely take it as it comes.
The last book or movie that really moved you?
Kafka on the shore, I probably read 100 books last year and once I read that I couldn’t read for a long time.
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