We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Victoria Purdy. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Victoria below.
Victoria, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?
I grew up completely obsessed with Taylor Swift, which I feel most women in my genre are at one point. I would sit on the living room floor in front of my family’s CD player and analyze her lyrics and melodies off of every album religiously. I even knew who some of the people she regularly collaborated on songs with were. I was 8 years old when her first album came out and from then on I constantly wrote songs and annoyed everyone around my house repeating the melodies so I wouldn’t forget them, because this was before I had a phone with voice notes or a recorder. I fell in love with music at such an early age and I had a little delusion, as kids do, but I always knew I wanted to pursue music professionally and that dream never wavered. As I started working normal jobs it solidified even more that I was meant for a creative path. I get so bored at 9-5 jobs and hate being stuck in one place, whereas music is always something new. Always something exciting or even frustrating but always beautiful.
Victoria, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
Hi my name is Victoria! I grew up in a small town in New York, writing songs about heartbreak I had never experienced yet. Coming of age in the church and navigating my parents divorce made me really comfortable with messiness and I found a love of expressing that. I’ve written songs about nearly every event in my life – playing with concepts of young love, feelings of not being good enough and dealing with loss. When lockdown hit in 2020, the messiness I grew accustomed to only amplified and I decided to write about every messy thing I could find. I make music to help people feel less alone in their feelings, in the same way mine and others songs have made me feel less alone when I needed them.
What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?
The most rewarding aspect for me is connecting with people. I love making people feel things, good or bad, and I love storytelling. When I listen to music I’m so lyrically focused and always trying to understand the story behind the song, because to me that’s the most interesting part of it. So much of the music I listen to relates to my life and makes me feel connected to the artist and I hope my music makes people feel the way I feel when I listen to my favorite songs.
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
I’ve recently had to unlearn the idea that everything I do has to be perfect. I’ve had a bad habit of over perfecting a song and being frustrated when I couldn’t get the vocals or the overall vibe of the song to sound the way they did in my head. That’s definitely caused me to give up on some songs and ideas which is ridiculous. I think this came from comparing myself to other artists, both big and small, and also being on social media so much where we all constantly compare ourselves to others. I’ve started to unlearn this mindset and instead realize that perfect is boring and I’ve learned to be okay with and actually welcome imperfections in my music. When I started recording my own music in my childhood bedroom, I made so many mistakes and left them in the recordings because I didn’t know how to fix them. I actually think it made my first EP: Chasing Forever, really real and beautiful.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://victoriapurdy.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victorialpurdy/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victoriapurdymedia
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriapurdy/
- Other: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2XL6JEMs9hcHyf9Xx4xXSb?si=o831kJnCR-aW61PcIiyL0Q SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/victorialpurdy