‘If You’ has a nice Soulful, Neo Soul backdrop. It’s a wonderful catchy vibey chilled out tune with strong vocals. ‘Hold Ya’ is more up-tempo with a happy, poppy/rock vibe. So who is GeeGee. “People tend to call me, GeeGee because it’s like a cheeky sassy, don’t care, funky lady. So I thought, I’ll take that and that’s what I’ve gone with.” GeeGee then expanded on ‘If you’. In the song it says ‘If you don’t want me, if you don’t see me.’ This track is about being in love with someone and almost accepting the fact that they don’t love you as much as you do them. This track came about because I was listening to a Marvin Gaye song and those words just came to me, with that type of Marvin Gaye backdrop “If you don’t need me, then please forget me.” I wrote the song on Boxing Day 2020. Because of the Marvin Gaye backdrop, that’s where that Soul vibe came from. Sometimes if I hear something, a melody may come straight away or it won’t. That was the melody I heard and it was how I was feeling at the time. I wasn’t able to write that song straight away because it was like writing little bits of sentences. However, with the second song ‘Hold Ya’ this is a different kind of poppy vibe and I wrote that one with a lovely young guy called Tom Murray who I met at an open mic session at Mau Mau Bar on Portobello Road, London about five years ago. He’s a young Irish chap, who was different and something said to me to engage with him and his music and we booked a rehearsal studio and wrote that song. It’s because of Tom and because of his openness that attracted me to work with him. He’s young, in his mid-thirties, and I’m where I am! However, we seemed to work well together and we wrote that song together, which is why it has a different vibe. I also like to play the guitar or try to play the guitar and that’s why ‘Hold Ya’ has quite a lot of guitar influence and a poppy feel to it. That’s the other side of me. Obviously GeeGee is a woman of many talents. A woman who exudes and embraces it all. A woman whose effervescence for life is clear and abundant. GeeGee has been in the music industry for a long time.
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