With his brand new single ready to launch and a clear twist towards the romantic celebration of love, pop songwriter and artist Luchi kindly took time out of his travels to talk with us in depth about the latest release Like This. Here’s how it went.
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Luchi – great to catch up, how’s your summer so far?
It’s been really good so far. Lots of travel, lots of writing and lots of fun so I can’t complain. I’m currently speaking to you from Bali so life is good at the moment.
Huge congrats for the release of Like This – a strong production, great verse melodies and a dreamy build up. Tell me about the creative process, who was involved, and what does the song represent for you?
Thanks. Well this song to me represents that feeling of falling in love. When you first meet someone and you just have all the dopamine rushing through your body, it’s a feeling like no other. I always liken it to you feel like you are walking around in a movie scene.
My creative process for “Like This” was that I wrote the song in my home studio and done a demo for it, then I sent it to my producer Chris Stagg who then helped me bring the song to life and how you hear it now. It was just an acoustic demo on guitar to start with as I imagined the song to be one of those songs that you would be sitting on a beach, with a guitar singing to your love but as the song grew, it took on its own life and how you hear it today.
You wrote the song at the acoustic guitar initially – is there a potential for some unplugged clips or performances in the near future?
Yeah, I do love stripping songs back to just a piano or guitar as I think that you can really appreciate the songwriting when you pull all the production out and its just about the chords, lyric and melody. Watch this space.
How did you come to connect with Chris Stagg, and how do you navigate creative disagreements when crafting such a full and impassioned track?
I started working with Chris back in 2018 so we have been working alongside each other for a long time. To be honest, we rarely disagree on production and that is one of the reasons I love working with Chris, he gets me and my artistic vision and most of the time he knows where I want to go before I’ve even told him.
With this song, for instance, we started it out with a pop latin vibe as that was what I could hear in my head when I was writing the song and then it just wasn’t feeling right so we just scrapped it and started a new vibe. We are both similar like that, if something doesn’t work, we are very good at changing it up and trying something different. I am very hands on with the production side of things so we are a team in it, we both bring ideas to the table and we have a “lets try it” motto, if it works, it works, if not we try something different.
It’s a pleasure to hear the optimism and joy of falling in love represented with such a colourful production and performance. How different is your headspace when writing something so positive, as opposed to the songs that deal with deceit and heartbreak?
I write about everything that happens in my life so there is always a mix of the good, positive songs and the heartbreak ones but I think its because this is the first time that people are hearing something from me that is very romantic, it is different.
I love love and I am very romantic underneath the powerful breakup anthems, I give my all in love and feel everything so when I am in, I am all in. Every song that I have released has come from a personal experience and then to revisit the bad feelings can be hard in a song but with this one, it brings on all the good feelings.
Having reached the number 2 spot with your single ‘Web Of Lies’, do you feel a certain pressure now releasing new music, or does it fill you with more confidence and passion to keep going?
To be honest, I don’t feel pressure as I don’t like to put that onto myself. I am proud of my achievements but for me it comes down to just releasing music that I am proud of and connects with people. That’s what I do it for, giving back to others what music has done for me. It is nice that people are supporting me and that does mean a lot.
With each new single release, do you find that you learn a little more about the process of building a career, or about the music industry in general?
I think what I’ve learned over the past few years is that an overnight success isn’t reality for most. You have to plug away for a long time and grow it, if you look at someone like Chappel Roan, she is blowing up just now but she’s been working at it for 10 years and I think that the general public just see a new artist and assume they have just come out of nowhere but theres a lot that goes on behind the scenes and growing your career.
Do you have any plans to release an album or to hit the road on tour any time soon?
Well not an album yet but there will be a body of work coming this year so look out for that soon.
What will you be busy with throughout the coming weeks?
Well I’m over in Bali for a few weeks but I will be doing promo for the song, that’s the great thing about the world now, armed with a laptop and a phone, you can do it from anywhere in the world. Then it will be planning the next release.
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