Logan Spaleta – Thanks for Asking! – by Liam Sweeny.
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Interview Responses
RRX: Music genres are difficult for some artists. Some strictly adhere; others not so much. What is your perspective on the genre you play, or the genres you hover around?
LS: Lately, I’ve been settling on the title “cinematic pop”. I find that the music I write tends to live in the spheres of my current influences and what I’m listening to. But a commonality across the board is that I want my music to make my listeners feel something. I want them to listen to a happy song and dance around their room, or listen to a passionate song and feel moved by it. The intention of the songs I write, I feel, is to elicit the feelings you get in an epic movie scene, where two lovers reconnect or break apart, where good defeats evil, where love finds a way. Cinematic pop isn’t exactly a defined genre, but I find it’s an understandable phrase that best represents my music.
RRX: Our style comes from the extension of our influences. It’s like an evolution. We’re influenced, and it inspires us to influence. What can you say about your influences, and what you feel you’ve done with their influence as a musician or band? Have you extended their work?
LS: Yeah, this is really key, I feel, to know how to listen to an artist and understand their writing. I definitely draw upon the many different music tastes I’ve gone through. I had about a yearlong phase of listening to boybands (5SOS, One Direction) which cultivated some of my more party-like songs that are more vibe-based, and then I moved into listening to The 1975 a lot, so I began focusing more on complete songs with intricate storytelling and intentional approach. For a lot of my life, I’ve been a part of musical theater from both sides of the table, and that’s contributed to my storytelling ability. There’s definitely a lot that goes into my style and how I go about my process.
RRX: Would you rather have one of your songs blow up and make you a one-hit wonder and household name, or would you rather have all your songs be solidly received, but no chart-climbers? (You have to pick one or the other here.)
LS: Most certainly the latter. My biggest desire as a songwriter is to build trust and a relationship with my listeners, where they can come to my music, step into my life a little bit, and also relate it to their own. And that trust is built with consistency. Being able to share that experience with people is much more important to me than fame or being a household name. I’d rather have a crowd of 500 that know every word to every song over a crowd of 35,000 that knows one song and only minimally knows the others.
RRX: We let it out differently when we play music. The happy, sad, good and back; it can all be put out musically. Overall, do you feel better when you sing about the bettertimes, or the worser times? Is there a difference you can describe?
LS: I don’t necessarily believe that there’s a difference between feeling better about the good times or bad times, but rather, there’s a difference when it comes to how intense the feelings are about the times. Because, for me, music is therapy. If I am going through something bad, it feels incredible being able to write and play a song about it because it allows you to get those feelings out, to put them somewhere other than inside your head, and to channel it into something you love. The same goes for positive experiences. It’s the intense moments that have that power and release.
RRX: Every artist’s first song is a milestone. But so is the latest song. Describe the first song/album you recorded, and also the latest song/album you recorded; what are the differences?
LS: I recorded 6 songs all the way back in 2018, 3 originals and 3 covers, never released. Just a super simple setup with just piano and vocals. I think, because I was 12 years old when I did that, it had a different impact on me than it would today. Back then it was just a “this is cool! I’m in a studio! singing!”, but now, as I’ve grown and been through a much wider breadth of experiences, the act of recording something close to my heart becomes more meaningful. With the album that I’m working on right now, these are all very personal songs that I wrote in moments of passion, of sadness, of joy. They’re more of a window into my soul, rather than earlier on where songs felt more surface-level.
RRX: Let’s talk about your next project, your next few. Just not the ones you’re working on now. The ones you have your eyes on for the future. What’s coming to us?
LS: I’m looking to expand my catalog into an undeniable, unique, personal sound. This album begins to do that through my storytelling and honesty, but I think the second album that I have will certainly add much depth to what I do in the first one. I think building something real comes from honesty and telling true life experiences people can relate to. My upcoming album does that, and the second album adds different shades of emotion to deepen the emotional range.