Nuria Fucking Your Style
A powerful embodiment of brooding neon bubbles and simmering indie pop, the brand new track Fucking Your Style from Tasmanian singer-songwriter Nuria (out today) bustles with gleaming empowerment and Nuria's profound vocals. A dazzling follow up to Nuria's recent track Graffiti, Fucking Your Style is ultimately a full-blown anthem to liberation that we all need in spades in 2022.
With moody synths, simmering beats and swooning, layered soundscapes, Fucking Your Style collides the effortless stylings of Nuria with producer Sam Phay and Peter Holz mixing and mastering, with the end result presenting as entirely polished, poised and creamier than a New York cheesecake. Embracing inspiration from some of Nuria's girl power icons, Lorde, Lily Allen and fellow-Aussie G-Flip, Fucking Your Style is an emphatic, passionate and boundless barrel of indie pop and electronic undertones, while also flying the flag for self-awareness and truly being okay with who you are, as Nuria explains, "This is a song about owning my complexities. I've spent years beating myself up for feeling 'a little bit fucked up' and living apologetically with that baggage. 'Fucking Your Style' is a song I wrote when I had that feeling in a big way and I was done with it. I finally thought 'fuck this, this is the way I am and you can take it or leave it but I'm going to stop apologising for it now - I'm not going to be anyone's liability.' It was a totally liberating and empowering song to write and I still feel that way when I play it".
While only releasing into the world today, Fucking Your Style is a track Nuria's been sitting on for a while, with the latest single following a string of stunning musical collections from the Tassie-based pianist and singer-songwriter. Releasing her debut full length album Alive in 2020, and a follow up in Silver in 2021, Nuria's free-spirited and finely-honed sonic wiles have seen her gain airplay on ABC and community radio across Australia, while also snagging attention from local and international audiences along the way. Uplifting, exciting and always surging with authentic momentum, Nuria has also had singles from her debut album feature in the Top 10 of the 2020 Australian Songwriters, as well as songs also previously selected in the International Unsigned Only competition semi-finals.
A mother to three children, four sheep, three ducks and three chickens, when Nuria isn't weaving musical magic, she can be found in the garden, writing novels, or working part time as a GP. And while her idyllic surrounds growing up in Tasmania's Huon Valley undoubtedly feed into her entirely immersive creations, Nuria is first and foremost a realist, a straight-shooter, and, most resoundingly, a lover of music, as she concludes, "I'm just a slightly fucked up normal person (isn't that the very definition of normal?). I'm no teenage pop princess and there's nothing particularly cool about me but I'll tell it straight and I'm going to keep making music because it's the language of my heart".
Fucking Your Style is out today, Wednesday September 14.
Interview with Nuria - "Fucking Your Style"
Can you tell us about your new single Fucking Your Style?
It's a blazing piece of pop about being proud of who you are and all the complex little bits that entails.
What inspired your single?
Self doubt I guess fuelled the fire behind the song. And a moment where self doubt was replaced by self respect and empowerment led me to write a song about being a 'little fucked up' from a different perspective - of acceptance. I decided to own that shit and realised it felt damn good and maybe all those bits of me that I thought I needed to be rid of were actually just the things that make me who I am. I feel this might be something relatable.
Is there a particular message you hope listeners take from your music?
I am no expert on life so I don't presume to send any messages. I just muddle my way through it! But I'm not afraid to expose myself and my emotions (well I am afraid of it but hell, I do it anyway - whoops!). I hope that when people listen to my music they might feel a part of themselves echoed in it, and that the shared experience might be somehow nourishing. When I talk to a friend about an issue, the most healing thing is when that person says 'Ah shit, I totally know what you mean!!' rather than trying to find the solution or tell me the answer or whatever. And I guess that's my hope with music, that people might hear the song and have that 'ah yes' feeling.
How has a person or place influenced your music?
People, places, sounds, feelings all influence my music! My next song will probably feature ducks.
Which is your favourite song to perform live and why?
'Red Velvet' - it's a song about the performer in all of us. Not only for the musician on the stage, but for the human in the world and the aspect of performance in our everyday life - to others, and to ourselves. It explores the masks we wear, without criticism or judgment for those masks, but simply acknowledging that we are the performer, we are also our own most important audience member and the show we want to put on can be whatever the hell we want. When I play the song it grounds me, reminds me to have fun and make sure I am living my life in a way that is satisfying, and interesting to me.
If you could have anyone, in the world, attend a show, who would it be?
My mum. She died really tragically when I was 25 but before that she was my biggest fan. She used to sit at the front of the audience for all my shows and she would actually turn around and hiss at people to 'ssshhh' if they talked through my performance (which was a little embarrassing at the time I must admit!) I used to roll my eyes at her indulgently when she'd tell me how much she loved my music, but in truth I basked under the magnitude of her unconditional love.
What motivates you most when writing music?
Emotions. When I feel something strongly the most satisfying experience is to extend that into music
Which music/artists are you currently listening to?
Well Taylor Swift, my baby and I have this thing going - every morning I dance around and clean up the breakfast-chaos-explosion while my baby goes to sleep in the backpack and Taylor Swift bangs out her hits. We're all Swifties in my household. Anyone who doesn't like Taylor Swift is a loser.
If you could collaborate with another artist, who would it be?
Well. Taylor Swift obviously.
Was there a moment you contemplated throwing in the towel?
Yes. This morning. Yesterday. Last night. The day before. Essentially all the time. The world is getting exceedingly weird and I am constantly tempted to throw my phone in the toilet and do away with the idea of sharing music because I'm sick of social media and the internet and all the crap that comes with it. I would be left with my family, the garden and animals and a piano. Which actually sounds fantastic. Might do it tomorrow actually. Thanks for the reminder.
What is the biggest challenge you have faced along the way to your musical success?
The above. Love music. Hate promotion. Hate phones and screens and no one actually living their lives anymore but just watching other people do so in the palm of their hands. It literally makes me want to cry. But na. Don't want to get all down on you. I'm a joyful person, just need to keep evaluating where the most joy comes from, you know?
What's a typical day like?
Ideally three cups of tea as a starting point, followed by shortbread biscuits and coffee with cream (sugar and caffeine on an empty stomach is similar to bubbly on an empty stomach - winner winner chicken dinner). The Taylor Swift ritual as before discussed. Change several nappies, do much washing (do you really want to hear all this?? This is me. Not Britney Spears). Skip. Work (scripts for tonsillitis and the likes). Feed animals. Go for walk in the bush and curse the unravelling of the wholesome world. Eat dinner. Cuddle people. Read my latest Irish rom-com. Giggle with my husband share anecdotes about the nice things in our small little life.
What advice do you have for aspiring songwriters or artists?
Make the music you want to make and try to be happy with that regardless of where it lands. We have no control over who will listen to it, share it, like it, tweet it, tik-tok it. And that side of it is not necessarily fair or reflective of the quality of the music. But if you can say to yourself you are making the music you want to be making then job fucking done!
What's next, for you?
I want to focus on keeping things real. Start performing live more and sharing my music with people in a way that is concrete and tangible. I've been lazy on that front for the last few years, hoping that I could just make the music and then send it out into the ether and people would hear it. But the ether is big and oversaturated and I'm feeling lost in it. So I'm going to focus more on live and local, nourishing meaningful connections and sharing music in the way that humanity as always shared it. What is small is beautiful.
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