California based musician Odelet has a plethora of influences, ranging from R&B and hip-hop, to pop and Neo soul. She has released a new single titled “Cinderella,” which is part of a recently released EP, Odelet’s Hufflepuff, and her album, Pisces Pie, w
California based musician Odelet has a plethora of influences, ranging from R&B and hip-hop, to pop and Neo soul. She has released a new single titled “Cinderella,” which is part of a recently released EP, Odelet’s Hufflepuff, and her album, Pisces Pie, which is available on all platforms May 11.
Odelet’s Pisces Pie is like a love letter to herself, and features the unique new single that takes the listener on an ethereal journey.
“‘Cinderella’ is a love song through and through,” Odelet said. “I think what’s fun about it is how the title conjures up the associations we have with that tale. Interestingly, the title came last. I wrote the whole song and didn’t have this association of Cinderella to it. It’s funny how a process can be like you are sometimes not starting from the beginning, and then somehow connect it all.”
Odelet enjoys playing around with dual meanings of themes, which is something she enjoys when writing because it can make things more expansive. The song is about falling in love with herself, but also a fun playful way of telling a story love and life in general. She said it is “practical and literal,” but also “elusive, ethereal and conceptual.”
“The whole album, really, is a love letter to myself,” she said. “I also love that to me, loving self is not excluding loving the people you come into contact with. It is also about relationships outside of yourself. It kind of all radiates within yourself. I think the album is an overall reflection of that kind of perspective that I have in my life.”
The single, “Cinderella,” feels like a narrative of how she felt in her life before about falling in love, but also have an underlying spiritual meaning with connecting with herself. It is a special song to her, and she is excited to share it with the world.
“Each night I am going to fall back in love with myself again, and I’m going to keep doing it because it makes me open to loving in the best way I can outwardly,” she explained. “There is a little bit of a deep meaning like that for the song to me.”
The single was released on April 11 and has already gained plenty of traction, with Odelet saying she is excited to see it at 60,000 streams and counting.
The album, Pisces Pie, was an outpouring and unfolding that began last winter. She explained that she had another album on deck that was ready to be released, but this concept was seeded years ago and she knew it was ready to come out. She explained that at one point she was calling it lofi hip-hop, but admits that it is tough to define this into a genre.
“I just knew I wanted to do something that was more in the realm of making beats and more inspired by hip-hop,” she said. “I’ve always loved hip-hop music and wanted to do it more in that vain, but not exactly that. Pisces Pie all came out over a winter, and all the writing was honing and detailing things over three to six months.”
Odelet loves to play her own rhythms, saying piano has been a rediscovered love that is highlighted on the album. She is responsible for all of the instrumentals on Pisces Pie, and said that creating all the rhythms from the ground up was some of the most fun she has had making music.
Odelet was born in Detroit but moved to Long Beach, California. She ended up moving north towards Davis and then landed in Petaluma. As a child she was into all things art, and music was engrained into her life. Her father was a music fanatic who sang in choirs and quartets, and played bass. Her step father was also heavy into music, but in an entirely different realm of old school country. This gave her a broad influence to work with.
She started singing around fifth grade, and then in high school and college started learning instruments by ear for the most part. Odelet attended Portland State University, and said she always had such creative and talented people around her, making it so there was never a lack of inspiration.
She started to go to open mics where she would do her own take on covers. Shortly after, she met more people who were consistently focused on music, and writing music. Odelet has always been a creative writer, and knew this was a way she could be abstract, describe a place and transport someone there.
“Words are so fun to me,” she said. “I have alway been a writer foundationally, so the words are cool to find the combination of where they can go. And when I find it, it’s a sense of satisfaction where I’m like, “that’s it.” There are so many that you can interchange with and play around with.”
Odelet said it is fun to get to a “non-thinking place” where she can get to new levels of writing and exploring what she can do.
“I love feeling really limitless in those ways and how I get to be in the music,” she said. “Odelet sometimes feels like I am Odelet. Sometimes it feels like an alter-ego, but also really who I am. It almost feels like my personality as not Odelet is an alter-ego even more than Odelet is. It’s sort of funny like that.”
Be sure to keep up with the music of Odelet, and check out Pisces Pie featuring “Cinderella,” available on all platforms.
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