{"id":456348,"date":"2022-06-01T21:41:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/quelle-chris-doesnt-want-you-to-feel-bad-for-him\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T21:41:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:41:37","slug":"quelle-chris-doesnt-want-you-to-feel-bad-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/quelle-chris-doesnt-want-you-to-feel-bad-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"#Quelle Chris doesn\u2019t want you to feel bad for him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af39dfc1aacc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: 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class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Detroits_Renaissance_man_breaks_down_his_writing_process_his_move_to_Baltimore_and_his_new_album_Deathfame\"><\/span>Detroit\u2019s Renaissance man breaks down his writing process, his move to Baltimore, and his new album <i>Deathfame<\/i>.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233301\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Quelle_Chris_Portraits_2022_Pic_1_Photo_Credit_Saskia_Kahn_upx4v4\/quelle-chris.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Quelle_Chris_Portraits_2022_Pic_1_Photo_Credit_Saskia_Kahn_upx4v4\/quelle-chris.jpg 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840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Quelle_Chris_Portraits_2022_Pic_1_Photo_Credit_Saskia_Kahn_upx4v4\/quelle-chris.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Quelle_Chris_Portraits_2022_Pic_1_Photo_Credit_Saskia_Kahn_upx4v4\/quelle-chris.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Quelle_Chris_Portraits_2022_Pic_1_Photo_Credit_Saskia_Kahn_upx4v4\/quelle-chris.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Quelle_Chris_Portraits_2022_Pic_1_Photo_Credit_Saskia_Kahn_upx4v4\/quelle-chris.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Quelle Chris doesn\u2019t want you to feel bad for him\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Quelle Chris.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Saskia Kahn.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233286\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Early in our conversation about his new album <i>Deathfame<\/i>, Quelle Chris reveals that a good deal of the album was made in about a week or two. Upon further inquiry about that period from earlier this year, guessing that he would maybe share the secret to funnelling a sudden rush of creative energy, the conversation shifts toward the existential. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            \u201cOh, I was dying,\u201d the Detroit r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er says with a hearty laugh. \u201cBut I needed to get that out of me and get it done, and personally restart my line of communication between me and those that choose to care when I create. It had been two years. And there\u2019s the psychological aspect: You\u2019re starting to see certain people move again, everything is moving. And I haven\u2019t started moving yet. And so the industry, per se, is moving on without me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            The urgency to create he describes, more focused on survival than spawned from freewheeling self-motivation, courses through <i>Deathfame<\/i>. From the forged-in-the-fire resilience of \u201cAlive Ain\u2019t Always Living\u201d to the title track\u2019s burning sense of resentment, Chris is scrapping for every last dollar he needs to make it through. There isn\u2019t much \u201cprove yourself\u201d energy floating around, but on \u201cFeed the Heads\u201d and \u201cThe Agency of the Future,\u201d he\u2019s rapping like he just went all in at the table and needs to cash out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            \u201cI\u2019m breaking my neck to go on tour, trying not to have to send out a Little Simz message, you dig?\u201d he tells me, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LittleSimz\/status\/1516459187819233288\">referring to a post<\/a> where Simz spoke about postponing her U.S. tour due to the financial strains of touring as an independent artist.<\/p>\n<p>            True to its title, <i>Deathfame<\/i> is largely skeptical of those who pursue fame and the industry that stokes that pursuit, finding Chris pondering what sustained success looks like and poking fun at glib industry award shows. When he deadpans \u201cIf heaven\u2019s got a ghetto, hell\u2019s got a resort,\u201d it\u2019s a deflated acceptance of life\u2019s cruel balancing act: There is no joy without pain or success without failure. Throughout, Chris raps with a calmness that makes it clear these aren\u2019t new thoughts \u2014 these are songs that have been secretly writing themselves across his career. As a result, <i>Deathfame<\/i> comes off more measured than a searing resignation letter, existing somewhere between the fiery political satire of <i>Guns<\/i>, and <i>Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often<\/i>\u2019s self-reflective mind garden, questioning if any of this is all worth it even as he accepts his flowers.<\/p>\n<p>            Against all odds, though, <i>Deathfame<\/i> remains optimistic, whimsical, and humorous, even as Chris dissects the ills of the industry and explores the nuances of greyed-out feelings like irritation. \u201cHow Could You Love Something Like Me?,\u201d a late album highlight, could be an outtake from a pragmatic one-man show \u2014 Quelle Chris meets Samuel Beckett meets Stephen Sondheim. It sounds like he\u2019s slowly descending to the ocean floor, his voice gurgling and echoes growing louder as the song extends into the void. With two brief verses, he captures the album\u2019s uneasy feelings about the varied definitions of success and how the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>\u2019s rat race for fleeting recognition eventually consumes all its players. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233287\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quelle Chris - The Sky Is Blue Because The Sunset Is Red (feat. MoRuf &amp; Pink Siifu) | Official Video\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qPGJafOUrXc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('233287');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233288\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>The FADER: You moved out to Baltimore during the pandemic, right?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>Quelle Chris<\/b>: Yeah, we moved pretty much at peak. It was a ride because nobody knew what was about to happen. Especially with the initial rebranding of hatred, because at the time, we was out there marching and burning shit down,  as I believe it&#8217;s very necessary when for the right message and right reasons. Some shit had to get burnt down. I&#8217;m not mad at that shit. But when you&#8217;re two Black folks trying to move in the midst of that, I guess if anything, [it] refocused tension, because that stuff never leaves&#8230; It&#8217;s not like anything has really changed. There&#8217;s still moments where it&#8217;s a little better than it was. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>I don&#8217;t even feel like there&#8217;s been change, but you can just feel that everyone is just in a completely different spot now. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Amplification of all things. That&#8217;s happened over the last couple years. If you were depressed, and you had been neglecting it, it was right there. If there was any sort of falter in the stability of your career, that shit got amplified. If your kids kind of annoyed you, them motherfuckers really annoyed you for the last few years. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>A lot of the beats on here sound really smokey, like it&#8217;s all on fire, or you\u2019re trapped in the middle of the Mojave Desert. But the rapping on it is still super zen. Where was your headspace at?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Maybe I switched it on, and then just didn&#8217;t really think that it was on anymore. But I know going into it, I told myself to go into it like when I would be making joints in my mom&#8217;s basement in Detroit. This isn&#8217;t a negative assessment of where I was at going into <i>Innocent Country 2<\/i>, because that&#8217;s my favorite album. But on <i>Innocent Country 2<\/i>, once I knew the direction, I went in with this intention of a lot of composition, and things of that nature. That&#8217;s not to say this one doesn&#8217;t have the same intentions, but one of the key intentions was to not worry so much and to let the songs and story form themselves, let the textures form themselves. It was more of a tape transition. Like with \u201cFeed The Heads,\u201d that was how I did the \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EGh277rGQZQ?t=37\">meanwhile&#8230;<\/a>\u201d I was like, \u201c<i>Just do it<\/i>.\u201d Just enjoy the process of making songs like you normally would, instead of thinking about how it&#8217;s going to translate to a listener. Let the listener come to you.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233289\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quelle Chris - So Tired You Can&#039;t Stop Dreaming (feat. Navy Blue)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-OG-klOXkcM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('233289');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233290\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Right. We all have our own creative process. And the way we go about things may look different, but we might have a similar result. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>            That&#8217;s always been one of my favorite things as far as working with other people especially. When you have the joy of working in the same room together, just watching how everyone reaches these end points of what ultimately becomes a finished product. A lot of time, it don&#8217;t even fit the end result as far as the outside looking in. I\u2019ll be like, \u201cYour shit is so wild and nutty. And you are very stern about this.\u201d Or like with me, especially early on in my career, people would be like, \u201cYo, it sounds like he&#8217;s freestyling. He does it so lackadaisically.\u201d I&#8217;m probably one of the most meticulous writers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            I listen to certain people, there&#8217;ll be a cold verse, no arguments there, but there&#8217;ll be these things where as someone that&#8217;s been writing for so long, and so hyper focused on the craft of MCing, I&#8217;ll be like, \u201cThat line right there was just the next thought, the easiest reachable thought after that.\u201d And I have a block in my brain where those lines will come to my head, but I just can&#8217;t do them. Then I can&#8217;t move on until I find that right line. The way that I record is where I think a lot more of my looseness comes from. I allow more mistakes, and more nuance in the delivery.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>I talk to a lot of younger rappers, and they&#8217;re mainly punch-in guys, and say like, \u201cI got to make sure I&#8217;m saying this line exactly the way I want it to be said,\u201d versus, \u201cI want to make sure I&#8217;m writing this the best way that I can.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n<p>            A lot of hip-hop fans have, in one way, over- and mis-dissected the process of writing, and the things that they hear. I hear a lot of misinterpretations of similarities between rappers, and patterns. But then at the same time, it&#8217;s beautiful and exciting, because for a long time, we knew the difference. But through the \u201880s and the \u201890s, if they had somebody rapping on a movie, or a TV show, you would be like, \u201cOh, these people have no understanding of this shit.\u201d Their understanding of it is, \u201cIt&#8217;s just rhyming words.\u201d It&#8217;s beautiful to see people understand these things, but there needs to be more longform conversations about the almost endless variations of approaches and styles. Then you can get into the music theory and the technical veins of everything.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            But that\u2019s just on the \u2014 I&#8217;m definitely using the wrong word  \u2014 ethereal level of what we do as MC&#8217;s. That&#8217;s not even to get into the power of words, and the casting of spells, and it gets larger from there. It&#8217;s good to see people going this direction where you see people hyper-dissecting patterns. And you have, over the last however many years, the emergence of \u201cwho uses the most unique words\u201d and all that type of stuff. But it&#8217;s still too data-based and analytical. There&#8217;s not a focus on the soul of these verse creations, and that&#8217;s really where the most technical and intricate things come in. Not this simplification of what we do in order to industrialize things. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233293\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Could They Love Something Like Me?\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3wiTRRXcHsc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('233293');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233292\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>How did you come up with the title for this album?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            At its core, it&#8217;s that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> idea [of] giving someone their flowers while they&#8217;re still here. But I guess maybe a little more specified in a way where we were talking earlier how everything is amplified, especially with <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>. If somebody dies, then for three days, all you hear is all this adulation. So I&#8217;m just like, on the very surface, it&#8217;s like, I want that death fame. Let me get that fame you get when you die. And then as it breaks down throughout the album and is addressed in different ways, it becomes more nuanced and vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>            If you&#8217;re a successful doctor, it&#8217;s because you can cut a motherfucker&#8217;s heart out and put another heart in. It is 100 percent based off your skill, right? In entertainment, or specifically for concerts and music, it&#8217;s not 100 percent based off your skill. If anything, at times, it&#8217;s hardly even at all based off your skill. It&#8217;s based off of how close to fame you are. And how much you&#8217;re willing to give yourself, brace yourself, be okay with growing older, be okay with all these different things, to appreciate yourself, to think you&#8217;re the coldest, to know you&#8217;re the coldest, to be the coldest, to constantly grow, all of these different things that have to do with this idea of success within this industry. And not to mention money, right?<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            This industry is built around forcing all of its cash cows \u2014 its literal cattle that they own and sell, which are the artists \u2014 to a kind of death race. This rat race for something that is technically always fleeting, which is the adoration of others.  I can&#8217;t be a successful artist unless there&#8217;s some sort of adoration. I can be a successful a lot of things without adoration, if I&#8217;m just the best at it. But this comes with this extra layer of, \u201chow far am I willing to push myself to death, or even to the point of actually dying in order for you guys to deem me successful?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Right, especially with how Black artists get treated in rap and other genres. It&#8217;s like they\u2019re more valuable to labels after they&#8217;ve passed away. Which is heartbreaking. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>            It&#8217;s a marketing point. At this point, it is such an industry that even when there is that kind of friendly label owner, artists be like, \u201che been looking out, she&#8217;s looking out, or they&#8217;ve been looking out, and they care about their artists\u2026\u201d You&#8217;re still a product. You&#8217;re a product of constantly fluctuating value. Every second of the day, your value changes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233291\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quelle Chris - Alive Ain&#039;t Always Living (Official Audio)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oT1q7_XvWPQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('233291');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233294\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Why did you go with \u201cAlive Ain\u2019t Always Living\u201d for your lead single? <\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            To reach a point of acceptance of where you&#8217;re at, or even on the extremes. I don&#8217;t even get off into these extremes, but the extremes of some of the emotions addressed in the album&#8230;  \u201cWhy do you accept me when I&#8217;m just a regular fucking person? I be fucking up too. Why do you think I&#8217;m great?\u201d And I think to get to that point, you reach some level of what that first song is, which is, \u201cI&#8217;m grateful for everyone that&#8217;s gotten me to this point. I&#8217;m grateful for everything that has happened up to this point, and this is where I am, good and bad.\u201d So I feel like that song is like going to therapy. <\/p>\n<p>            I feel like it was important to open an album that addresses all these things by going: \u201cYeah, I hate that this is this way, I love that this is this way. But let me make it clear before I even get off into anything that can be applied to your own life, or interpreted to whatever way as music tends to be.\u201d People have songs they listen to. The same song they listen to when they&#8217;re sad, somebody listens to when they&#8217;re happy. Interpretation is a part of art. Let me make it clear that I&#8217;m okay with this. I don&#8217;t want you to listen to this album and feel like, \u201cFuck everybody. I ride for Quelle.\u201d I want you to do that, but I don&#8217;t want you to specifically listen to it and have a championing, or to feel sad about anything.<\/p>\n<p>            I feel like it was important to address that immediately. Because I get that some people, with <i>Being You Is Great<\/i>, they&#8217;re like, \u201cThat&#8217;s such a sad album.\u201d And I&#8217;m like, \u201cThere&#8217;s nothing sad about that album.\u201d I don&#8217;t want people to feel bad for me listening to this album or to be like, \u201cYo, Quelle is mad underrated.\u201d I just want people to genuinely enjoy it as it is.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-233295\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3gNLleI1petZq52QmMkcNW?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Brandon Callender<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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