BUEL
Talented Pop Artist We caught up with talented artist named, BUEL. Tell us a little bit about yourself? I’m Buel, I write songs and make music videos. I live in LA. How did you come up with the name BUEL ? I wanted to find a name that wouldn’t chain me to be a certain type of person with it’s own meaning or associations. B, U, E, L were some of the letters I had to use because of my birth name, I wanted it to phonetically sound close to me. With this mission in my head, I was just surfing on Google, I don’t remember how I got there, but I found myself reading Liv Tyler’s Wikipedia. I saw her mom’s name right there. Bebe Buell. I started to read about her, looked at her pictures, listened to her music and just felt a weird affinity. The last name Buell, could be my name with one L. So that’s the story.
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Which artist inspired you the most growing up? Kurt Cobain did. His lyrics, interviews, level of non judgmental acceptance, neutralness, respectfulness, and his open mindedness is what inspired me.
How did you get into Pop Music? I don’t know, I didn’t realize I got into it until people heard my music and said it’s Pop. Who would be your dream artist to collaborate with? The last alive member of Bee Gees, Barry Gibb. Their music always made me feel safe and comfortable and calm. It makes me feel like everything is alright, which I need to hear pretty often. So it would be great to have that spirit at least in one of my records. What’s something you learned early on in your career that made you a better artist? That I can never be controlled by others’ vision. I was in a lot of bands before I decided to go solo and I had a lot of uncomfortable experiences. Being a musical artist is like a body for my soul and if I let other people’s decisions represent me then It’s worse than not having a body. What does Pop music mean to you? I think it means that music is easy to listen to by people. When you get used to hearing certain
