We recently connected with Blythe Vermilion and have shared our conversation below.

Blythe , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Has your work ever been misunderstood or mischaracterized?

I absolutely I believe that my work has been misinterpreted. I’ve had people ask me if I was a devil worshiper and tell me that some of my visuals are very dark. It makes it a difficult task when asked to explain why my visuals in my music come off the way they do. My life wasn’t easy growing up, and my life hasn’t been easy as an adult. Due to having lack of structure and coming from a toxic family I had to relearn how to function normally, Both emotionally and socially as an adult. My family put me through hell. I have definitely achieved healing by taking myself away from the toxicity. I’ve had to cut ties with many people including people my family. With that being said; The songs that I have written have all been through true experience, true pain and true beauty. I’m a firm believer that musical art is nit just felt and heard through the ears, but it is seen through the visual concepts that we create through our music videos. It’s just me telling my story as vividly as I can for the eyes of the person watching. The best way I can describe it is, I try to depict the pain and the experience that I was feeling when writing this song in a visual way. Basically if I had to write a song without writing the song itself and just write it through visuals, I would have to make it look as closely as I could to how I was feeling. To some people this comes off dark. And they misunderstand me because they think that I am supporting darkness and negativity when most of my songs actually speak of overcoming these things. Just like any standard horror movie, the build up is all of the horror. But then the protagonist usually overcomes whatever was attacking them. It used to bother me that people wouldn’t understand what I was trying to convey. But now I’m OK with it and I realize that it will resonate with who is meant to. It’s supposed to be this way. And honestly no artist just skated through their career without someone criticizing them .

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I am a San Diego native, singer songwriter. I direct and co direct my own music videos. I’m basically just channeling my life experience into creating something for the collective. I believe I. raising the vibration of the world, and I am doing my best to do my part to heal myself through healing others . What sets me apart from others ?? I’m not so sure I want to be set apart . I’d like to have them relate to me . I think the best way to do that is to be my authentic self no matter what gets thrown at me on the path of my music career . What am I most proud of ? I think Proud wouldn’t be the word I’d use but what I’m most surprised by , is my resilience and my ability to overcome. The more you work on yourself the more obstacles and people try to bring you down .There have been many times that I felt like just giving up . I thought to my self “this is gonna be too hard “. But somehow I found the strength . It took me a long time to even have the courage to patbmyself on the back and feel deserving of any of this . So I’m pleasantly surprised . And maybe a bit proud .

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

One of the biggest lessons I had to learn is, not everyone is your friend. Just because you have a big heart doesn’t mean others are the same . You have to protect your peace, and your art . Ive learned to just stay quiet about my upcoming projects and music releases until they are actually done and released . There are people who will pray against you . Success of someone else scares people . They don’t realize there’s room for everyone’s success . So now I just stay pretty quiet about my plans . Because there’s been a few times that I’ve told a handful of people what I was doing and it’s been sabotaged purposely . It sounds ridiculous but it’s true . And here’s one more extension of what I’m saying . Almost everyone has their own agenda . So you have to keep that in mind when doing business . Nothing is free . And we live in a doggy dog world . I’ve been stolen from. Taken advantage of, used , mistreated, and misunderstood. I know what I’m saying sounds a bit cynical, but I’m here to speak truth. Protect yourself .

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

I think the most rewarding part is receiving an e mail or direct message from a listener. And they tell me that I have helped them get through something heavy in their life . It makes me think “ wow, my own pain and experience was not in vein”. I’m glad that I was brave enough to tell my story in a creative way . It’s rewarding to know you could have lashed out at the world in anger but instead you used your pain as fuel to create and help someone else .

Contact Info:

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