Love can be a conundrum. Sometimes uncertainties arise in relationships about the next steps to take. After committing so much of our time to a relationship, we’re often hesitant to just up and leave. Therein arises the in-between phase, which Annie Omalley sings about in her song “In Beetween.” We had the pleasure of interviewing Annie Omalley, and here’s what she had to say:
Q: I love your vocals! What’s your favorite vocal warm-up?
OMALLEY: Thank yew, honestly anything I do with my voice coach I love cause she’s amazing and I really value our time and all the things she has taught me. If I had to pick a favorite it’s when she will play a couple notes and I will sing what she played to perfect my pitch and it’s so fun.
Q: How long did it take to write this song?
OMALLEY: I wrote “in beetween” in about 30-40 minutes but I didn’t plan on using it so I didn’t have a second verse, and when I decided I was gonna put it out I wrote the second verse in a couple minutes before tracking vocals. I really love this song and I am so glad I remembered it and ended up adding it to my album.
Q: What do you enjoy most about making music?
OMALLEY: I am unbelievably in love with the moment I think of the idea and start creating. Especially when I’m songwriting, I feel like I enter a secret world, and it’s my favorite place to be, I can feel when that headspace is coming and I always dive right in. I also love when I write a new favorite song and I get it produced and I get to drive home from the studio and listen to it in the car and I just listen on repeat on the way home. It’s a nice moment I get with myself.
Q: What do you do to get your creative juices flowing when you feel stuck while creating a song?
OMALLEY: If I ever get writer’s block which I haven’t had in a while it just means I’m overworked and need to live a little bit. If I spend one day going to a museum and walking around a new town the next day I’ll be back. I also try to remind myself that the blockage will pass and I usually come up with my best song yet after I take these small breaks.
Q: In what way(s), do you think your sound has evolved since you started making music?
OMALLEY: My sound has evolved immensely as I am always getting inspired by different things and surprising myself with what I’m capable of creating. As I evolve as a person, learn more about myself, and channel my inner child my music evolves with me.
Q: Did you always know you would become a musician? At what point did you reach this realization/conclusion?
OMALLEY: By the time I was 4 I had known this is what I was gonna do, I have a video of me and three performing at a piano and taking it very seriously, and a video of me at 4 saying “I’m gonna be a movie star”. I just always knew. It got more serious as I got older but I always refer to my younger self because she know from the moment she was born that there was no other path than this one.
Interviewed by Zoey King
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