Now & Next: Fred Everything

Now & Next is a quick-fire interview series built around two simple but telling questions. We ask artists to reflect on where they’re at in their career and creative journey, and where they’re headed next. For each answer, they pick two tracks: one that sums up where they’re at right now, and another that hints at where they’re going. The artists also drop a few lines about each track, giving us a peek into their creative mindset.

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Now & Next is a quick-fire interview series built around two simple but telling questions. We ask artists to reflect on where they’re at in their career and creative journey, and where they’re headed next. For each answer, they pick two tracks: one that sums up where they’re at right now, and another that hints at where they’re going. The artists also drop a few lines about each track, giving us a peek into their creative mindset.

Fred Everything Q&A

Where Am I?

It’s the end of the year, I just turned 50 this year. Next year will be 30 year since I released my first record and 20 years of my label Lazy Days Recordings so I’m definitely in an introspective mode. One thing I learned through thick and thin is to always be grateful. It’s not always easy but when you do, your perspective in life changes. When you take things for granted, like they’re owed to you, you’re never satisfied. When you welcome things with gratitude, everything is a gift. I’ve been privileged to sustain myself my whole adult life through music, and I have to be thankful for that, to everyone who’s even listen to one of my songs.

Where Am I Going?

I’ve been on a quest to dig deep inside for a while to get that unique and honest message I want to communicate through music. With the advance of technology and AI, it’s easy to lose track of our own true voice in pursuit of career goals and other cheap thrills. With a record quantity of music being released every day now, the only way to get heard is by being truly yourself. There’s only one of you, and an infinite numbers of clones. “We’re human after all”*. Let’s celebrate that, we’re alive (for now) let’s be vulnerable. Let’s love.

Track (Now):
I Want To Thank You
Alicia Myers

"The message is in the title of course. The song is about being grateful for someone in your life, I apply it to being grateful at large. A beautiful song, beginning to end."

Track (Next):
Human After All
Crazy P

"First single from Crazy P’s new album, just a few weeks after the tragic passing of their singer Danielle Moore. You can fell the vulnerability in this song, which is what the human experience is all about to me. Instead of seeing it as a weakness, I think it’s courageous to wear that vulnerability on our sleeve. Her last message to the world was : If you have the ability to love, love. She is dearly missed but will live on through her legacy."

Where Am I?

It’s the end of the year, I just turned 50 this year. Next year will be 30 year since I released my first record and 20 years of my label Lazy Days Recordings so I’m definitely in an introspective mode. One thing I learned through thick and thin is to always be grateful. It’s not always easy but when you do, your perspective in life changes. When you take things for granted, like they’re owed to you, you’re never satisfied. When you welcome things with gratitude, everything is a gift. I’ve been privileged to sustain myself my whole adult life through music, and I have to be thankful for that, to everyone who’s even listen to one of my songs.

Track (Now):
I Want To Thank You
Alicia Myers

"The message is in the title of course. The song is about being grateful for someone in your life, I apply it to being grateful at large. A beautiful song, beginning to end."

Where Am I Going?

I’ve been on a quest to dig deep inside for a while to get that unique and honest message I want to communicate through music. With the advance of technology and AI, it’s easy to lose track of our own true voice in pursuit of career goals and other cheap thrills. With a record quantity of music being released every day now, the only way to get heard is by being truly yourself. There’s only one of you, and an infinite numbers of clones. “We’re human after all”*. Let’s celebrate that, we’re alive (for now) let’s be vulnerable. Let’s love.

Track (Next):
Human After All
Crazy P

"First single from Crazy P’s new album, just a few weeks after the tragic passing of their singer Danielle Moore. You can fell the vulnerability in this song, which is what the human experience is all about to me. Instead of seeing it as a weakness, I think it’s courageous to wear that vulnerability on our sleeve. Her last message to the world was : If you have the ability to love, love. She is dearly missed but will live on through her legacy."