{"id":646202,"date":"2024-12-07T13:20:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T10:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-just-greg-mendez-and-his-music\/"},"modified":"2024-12-07T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T10:20:16","slug":"its-just-greg-mendez-and-his-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-just-greg-mendez-and-his-music\/","title":{"rendered":"#It\u2019s just Greg Mendez and his music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 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-6a36e66061d4a\" 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: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-just-greg-mendez-and-his-music\/#As_he_reissues_his_self-titled_album_the_Philadelphia_singer-songwriter_explains_how_a_workplace_accident_inadvertently_led_to_his_breakout_moment\" >As he reissues his self-titled album, the Philadelphia singer-songwriter explains how a workplace accident inadvertently led to his breakout moment.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"As_he_reissues_his_self-titled_album_the_Philadelphia_singer-songwriter_explains_how_a_workplace_accident_inadvertently_led_to_his_breakout_moment\"><\/span>As he reissues his self-titled album, the Philadelphia singer-songwriter explains how a workplace accident inadvertently led to his breakout moment.<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-265923\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\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\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-12_pcfyab\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-12_pcfyab\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-12_pcfyab\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-12_pcfyab\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-12_pcfyab\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-12_pcfyab\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-12_pcfyab\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-12_pcfyab\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-12_pcfyab\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-12_pcfyab\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-12_pcfyab\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"It\u2019s just Greg Mendez and his music\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Juliette Boulay<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265919\" 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>\n            For many DIY artists, one of the biggest challenges is finding a balance between paying the bills and being creative. The thing that funds recording and live performances is the very same thing that keeps you too busy to write or too tired to practice. For Greg Mendez, his side job as a laborer in his hometown Philadelphia proved to be an unlikely godsend. \u201cI smashed my head into a piece of metal,\u201d he says of the accidental injury he sustained while demolishing a house. Workers compensation allowed him to spend time at home writing and recording his self-titled album, a collection of nakedly honest and gently strummed indie rock confessionals first released in 2023 and re-issued this month via his new label Dead Oceans (Mitski, Phoebe Bridgers).\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265929\" 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<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-265920\" 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>\n            That time at home was key to the creation of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/gregmendez.bandcamp.com\/album\/greg-mendez-reissue\"><i>Greg Mendez<\/i><\/a>, though he is keen to stress that he was legitimately fucked up at the same time. \u201cI kept going back to work and getting re-injured,\u201d he says from his Philly apartment. \u201cThat\u2019s the thing with manual labor. They&#8217;re not just paying you for your time, you&#8217;re getting paid for the damage to your physical health.\u201d Mendez is still at a level in the music world where he requires a second job, though these days he\u2019s switched to the far less precarious position of assistant at a local photography studio.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <i>Greg Mendez<\/i> was an introduction to Mendez\u2019s world for many, though he has been quietly sharing music with the world since 2006 and has amassed a small mountain of material online. He was initially reluctant to promote himself owing to the stigma of the singer-songwriter label among his peers.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cBack then people thought a singer-songwriter was Jack Johnson or John Mayer,\u201d Mendez laughs. He\u2019d grown up playing in punk bands and was reluctant to tell people he also wrote solo material. \u201cI just felt like I didn&#8217;t really like I had a place,\u201d he says looking back. \u201cI never thought I was going to be successful because it just wasn&#8217;t being heralded at all.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265924\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\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\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-08_zsc19z\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-08_zsc19z\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-08_zsc19z\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-08_zsc19z\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-08_zsc19z\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-08_zsc19z\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-08_zsc19z\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-08_zsc19z\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-08_zsc19z\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-08_zsc19z\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-08_zsc19z\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"It\u2019s just Greg Mendez and his music\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Juliette Boulay<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265926\" 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>\n            Mendez watched from the sidelines as the image of the singer-songwriter changed over the decades, and peers like Alex G enjoyed breakout success while he continued to work part-time jobs and put out music to little recognition. Drug and alcohol addiction soon began to wreck havoc on his life, leading to stints of homelessness and a \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/features\/greg-mendez-self-titled-interview\">horrific, violent, and extremely traumatic<\/a>\u201d period.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Mendez got sober around 2017 but it wasn\u2019t until 2023, and the release of his self-titled album, that his storytelling ability and array of unshakeable melodies finally propelled his name out of Bandcamp\u2019s endless archive.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265927\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left embed\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greg Mendez - &quot;Maria&quot; (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-0ClksySAmw?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>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265930\" 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<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-265921\" 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>\n            \u201cYou wanna hear this story about the time we got arrested at a crack den?\u201d goes the most disquieting line on \u201cMaria.\u201d It\u2019s a song that twinkles with a beauty that belies the decay at its core. Mendez\u2019s way with a hook brightens the corners of a tale that involves jumping out of a bathroom window to evade the cops. Mendez isn\u2019t the first to create a romantic metaphor around his relationship with drugs (\u201cCome back to me, I&#8217;ll make you h<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>y\u201d) but throughout the album, he shows a unique ability to capture the pleasure and pain of addiction. \u201cI still hope your name don\u2019t appear in some obituary,\u201d he sings on the gorgeous and desolate \u201cHoping You\u2019re Doing Okay,\u201d one of many songs on the album that call to mind the similarly candid Elliott Smith. \u201cI know it\u2019s so unclear,\u201d he continues over a gently strummed guitar, \u201cwhen you\u2019ve begged so long on bruised knees.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Mendez says he didn\u2019t set out to write so openly about his past, but that \u201cfollowing the vibe\u201d while writing led him there. \u201cIt feels good to take these things that were really traumatic and intense at the time and find out the worst parts about yourself and other people and turn that into something that is meaningful to me and to other people,\u201d he admits.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Being up-front in his songwriting didn\u2019t come naturally to Mendez. He says anything released before 2017\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/gregmendez.bandcamp.com\/album\/-\"><i>\u00af\u200b\\\u200b_\u200b(\u200b\u30c4\u200b)\u200b_\u200b\/\u200b\u00af<\/i><\/a> (or \u201cShrug\u201d as fans call it) doesn\u2019t count as part of the canon.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI was embarrassed and I was trying to hide by obfuscating things or being psychedelic about things\u201d he says, cringing at the thought of the \u201cnonsense lyrics\u201d he\u2019d write.  \u201cShrug was the first thing I put out that really felt like an album that I could stand by.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            I point out that Mendez\u2019s songwriting gained clarity when he got sober and he agrees. \u201cI was really coming out of many shells at that time,\u201d he says. \u201cI was hiding in the way that I was living my life and also in the songwriting, too. I also started feeling things a lot more, too. Getting high can feel like throwing a blanket over your emotions. Once you take the blanket off it really feels really intense for a while.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265925\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\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\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-06_l3tnvr\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-06_l3tnvr\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-06_l3tnvr\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-06_l3tnvr\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-06_l3tnvr\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-06_l3tnvr\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-06_l3tnvr\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-06_l3tnvr\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-06_l3tnvr\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-06_l3tnvr\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/greg-mendez-film-portraits-juliette-boulay-09202024-06_l3tnvr\/greg-mendez-dead-oceans-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"It\u2019s just Greg Mendez and his music\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Juliette Boulay<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265922\" 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>\n            Mendez hoped to follow the self-titled album with another project and extensive tour. However, a persistent wrist injury stopped him in his tracks, forcing the cancelation of a summer\u2019s worth of live dates; Mendez was unable to play guitar for three months while he recovered. He flashes a scar and describes an equally gnarly surgery involving shortening bones to save a cartilage disc. \u201cAt least it&#8217;s not constantly being ground up against now\u201d he says.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Unable to use his right hand, Mendez began writing songs left-handed on a keyboard. What began as a pragmatic exercise soon developed into a project of its own. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/gregmendez.bandcamp.com\/album\/first-time-alone\"><i>First Time\/Alone<\/i><\/a>, released in October, is made up of two songs written on keys and two more when Mendez was finally able to strum his guitar again. Like the self-titled album, Mendez leaves himself exposed in a way that borders on feeling invasive and marries that discomfort to simple but undeniably beautiful tunes. \u201cPain Meds,\u201d (one of the guitar-led songs) was written while a family member was close to death in the hospital. Mendez can\u2019t help but see similarities between them and himself in a former life. \u201cAnytime I&#8217;m presented with opiates being used in a medical situation, it\u2019s interesting to me.\u201d He adds that he did the drugs for \u201cdifferent reasons\u201d before correcting himself. \u201cIt\u2019s a painkiller either way, but I was using it for something else.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            I ask Mendez if he thinks gaining a following will change the unvarnished way in which he writes. He hints at having had a few uncomfortable encounters with fans over the last year and admits that, even at his relatively minuscule level of fame, being perceived by others takes its toll. \u201cMy intentions and goals as an artist are the same but everything surrounding it is different now,\u201d he says. \u201cThere are all these different versions of you that people have and you don\u2019t know them at all.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Building from a place of such vulnerability may prove tricky, but right now Mendez is reveling in the humble luxuries his new label deal affords him. Used to producing and recording his songs at home, he says he is keen to work with a string arranger to take his next project to a different level. Step by step he is moving forwards, taking snapshots from a difficult past in search of the peace and stability he continues to chase.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">David Renshaw<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\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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