Jerome Williams Perspective on I'm so fly

I'm an Australian/American musician and I write songs to make you dance!

This song started with me buying my first pair of Jordans

They were the first pair of shoes that ever fit my size 15 feet! 

But then i just wanted to make something that would make someone smile as much as I did  wearing those sneakers for the first time

My mum was a working musician

Music was always a part of my life. 
But the song that woke me up to being a musician was "ocean" - John Butler
That was the day i decided that playing music was what i wanted to do for the rest of life. 

After a lengthty run of being an anti social reclusive guitar playing nerd 

I decided to step out into the world at 22

so i had a shower, refused to cut my hair and started playing in local cafes 

hip hop was at the core of my idea for the song's vocal

but the first thing that came to me was the bass line

because of that I like to think its this wierd funk rap love child 

Initially ive always been an acoustic guitarist
Thats where ny hearts at. 
But after playing so many gigs alongside an increidble band 
trying my hand at DJing and having a general love for artists like Prince and Bruno Mars 
I wanted to write music that made you wanna have fun. 
So i varried myself more and let go of my sole attachement to one style and embraced them all 

Fun, carefree, enjoyment, happiness
love, heartbreak
Pettiness and anger 

But i always try to never take things to seriously. 

Bruno Mars 

Its not just his music or his performance, its not even the charimsa. 
The mans work ethic and multiinstrumentalist capability
His production mastery 
His song writing and passion

I'd love to be around that, that'd be a true musical learning experience

First I'd have to narrow down who my favourite artist is! 

Kendrick Lamar, J Cole, Eminem 
Arch Enemy, Periphery, Evanesence 
John butler, Andy mckee, Hiromi Uehara 
Prince, Bruno mars, The Kid Laori, Doja Cat
Ariana Grande and Christina Agurliera 

I could keep going, I don't know how to narrow down a favourite 
But I can defunately talk music with anyone 

I'm you're talking to someone 
Their words have meanings 
Meanings you understand 
When you understand those menings they can make you feel 
Now take away that need to understand 
imagine every one of those words has a feeling instead of a meaning 
You can feel the deepest pains of longing and lonliness 
You can feel the the peaks of joy, friviality and wonder 
You could feel empowered
Destroyed 
Lustful 
Focused 
Loved 
Understood 

Just from the words this person speaks 
Now imagine their not words 
Their just sounds 

Sounds and feelings

Prince without question 

In my mind Prince is not only one of the most prolific musicians to walk the face of the planet
He's a flawless mastery of musics creation given form. 
He performs with precision 
He writes and creates with an unwavering passion and work ethic. 
He was never defined by genre 
Emotion was what defined him
The beuaitful ones can rip your heart out 
Kiss can make you dance 
I would die 4 U is something share with your lover 
Raberry Berret will make you sing

And how do you define purple Rain? 

but most improtanly to me he is in my mind one of the greatest guitarists the worlds ever know 

I aven't released it yet ;)

Prince

Evanesence 


Kendrick Lamar

When I picked up guitar as a child
I was 13 or 14 
And around that time I told my mum I wanted to play at Madison Square Garden 

That has always been my dream 

I want my music to do one of three things

To either make you dance
To make you feel like you can do anything 
To make you feel.... sometimes I get in my feelings and write something super Emo 
Its rare but it happens 

Genre bending creative 

This is hard because I try to do as many things as possible E.g

As a rapper: Eminem 
I feel like thta would be the ultimate challenge and creative push 

As a guitarist 
Victor Wooten
A large amount of my philosphy towards the instrument came from how he approaches his. 

As a songwriter 
Anderson Paak. Everything the man does exudes groove and swag. I feel like that would be fun to work with. 

Live 
I've always struggled with being in a studio 
Its not until recently that ive found a rythm to work with. 

But live
I'm free 
Sharing music like that, the fear of the moment and how quickly it has to pass
You dont have time to think 
You just jump and hope the crowd catches you. 
Sometimes you fall
Sometimes you tear the roof down 

On stage is the greatest place on earth 

Practice is fundemental 
Never stop learning 
Study music in whatever way you see fit
If you're okay with doing scale's, chords and knowing how those two things interact.... cool.
If you just want to learn songs, cool. 

But always learn and never stay in one place
Find new and alien things that excite you and break your mind trying to understand them so you can reassmble yourself into something new 

Bluesfest 2023 was the greatest day of my life 

I'd never been so nervous, playing my music at one australias biggest, most prestigous and most beloved festival (and my personal favourite, it was a dream come true) 

When i stepped out on stage, the tent was nearly empty, but I didn't mind 
My friends and family had come to support me... and I was there. How lucky was that!?!?! 

I closed my eyes and I played my first song
At the end I opened them, hundreds of people were in front of me 
The roar from the crowed was incredible. 
For a song id written! 
I was shaking, I'd never felt anything like that. 
Then my band come to join me
The more we played the more people came 
The louder the crowed got 
Thousands of people maybe, I don't know. 
But what a feeling, I'll never fotget being given that oppotunity. 

To do this as a full time job for the rest of my life. 

I gig, allot. 
I'm lucky to be able to do that, but to be able to play your own music as a career.

That means your supported by doing what you love. 
But what id really love is to be remembered for my songs. 
To know that they helped people in some way 
That people felt my music in whatever degree the songs were written in. 

Thats the thing 
I don't have a genre
I'll take rap as a colour and paint with it over a distorted acoustic guitar canvas with a pop chorus 

I'll take a twelve string guitar and use it like a Tabla 

I'll take a Koto and put it over a 70s style funk beat

I'll probably drop a metal track or two along the way just because I love the style 

I think with a pop mindset 
But I study music like a Jazz university student 
But I want to be a rockstar 
There came a point where i stopped caring... I know I'm meant to pick a lane but I refuse to. 
put me in a room with any artist and i'll find a way to relate and play along side them 
In that, i think I can find someting new and different to offer music

Artists make sense of the things word's can not. 

Sometime's it only takes two notes to make a person feel everything they needed in that moment

Other times all it takes is a drum beat to amp you up for that gym session. 

The artist takes the incomprehensible and fashions it into something we can know 

Thats why every artist is so important. What we want to feel is as varried as the artists that create what we need . 

There are song's that come along rarely 

songs that no matter who you are, what you are, hold old you are or where youve been. You get on the dancefloor. 
September, Mr Brightside, Uptown Funk

That is what a songs success looks like for me

Definately studio time and working on original music. 
That fear of how you'll be perceieved and what you're even doing there got in my way for a long time. 

One of my first gigs..... 
I bombed so hard 
I had a clear vision in my head of what i wanted to do

the ultimate performance

I had my songs set

I was practiced

I knew exactly what to say 


And I screwed the whole thing up so bad I never got asked to play at the venue again. 

I've worked in hospitality..... 

but my favourite non musical job was working in a Dvd store alongside one of my best friends
It was a perfect set up for a cult classic commedy 

Music is how i relate to the world, I always try to find the aspects of any given medium that syncronise with my understanding of music in order to relate to what I'm doing. But almost in this circular motion, undertsanding non musical things in a musical manor helped me understand music better. 

Painting made me look at sound as "colour" 
Gym made me view practice with a greater sense of focus and purpose
Cooking made me appreciate the simplicity of ingredients and not overloading the recipe

Gaming made my fingers faster? 

Being an artist is the most social and isolating experience 

I think espeically as a musician, though I cant speak for all mediums.
I'm surrounded by people every weekend but rarely do I get the chance to know them.
During the week I practice, write, prepare and thats generally on my own. 

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it. I love it. I'm at peace with my own company mostly. 

But it can be hard, espeiclally when theres people you want to spend time with and they want to spend time with you but you have a time restrictions do to 
work. 

The key is to learn how to balance that dedication to your craft while existing outside of it. 
Dedication is where an artist find their success 
Life is where an artist finds thier inspirtion 

You'll have to forgive me, i forgot where I heard this quote.... and I'm proabably going to butcher it haha. 

"Kung Fu is not the practice of matial arts, its the practice and pursuit of mastery. The Baker practices kung Fu, The Painter Practices Kung Fu'. 

This relates to my idea of an artistic outlook. See the artistry in everything and you will see the beauty in everything. 
The practice and dedication it took grow your first tamato in your garden is as beautiful and the passion the founder of a company had when they first developed the phone your reading this on now. 

Don't see things for what they are
Seem them for what they were and will become

Ocean - John Butler 
The journey this song took me on led me here. 

Performance Art 

Painting 

Poetry 

Prince, John Butler, Andersson. Paak 

that not matter what your art is with you

its a piece of you 

Something no one can take off of you

you can create on any level
Personally or globally 
But your art remains intristically tied to you 

theres a comfort in that, 

This is fun, this is the most fun i've ever had. 
I know that seems so simple and childish but music brings me enjoyment.
Enjoyment enough to keep going forever 

So I'll take that as a sign. 

I want to be worldwide, to tour my music. To collaborate  with the worlds best and know that I made it to be among them.
To but my mum a house through the career she believe I could pursue. 
To be remembered as a outstanding performer and musician

To have my songs be a piece of peoples memories, perhaps 
something special in their life happened to one my songs. 

I'd love that.