Speaker Honey is on Mars Time: Elevated Frequencies Episode #6

Olivia: Thank you so much for joining me. How are you?

Kiki: I'm doing really good. Just getting prepped for going to Vegas tomorrow. Yeah, just really excited. I grew up in Vegas, so EDC has always been a really big moment for me, and I'm just really excited to get back there this week.

Olivia: That's awesome. And the last time I saw you was actually EDC Orlando. So is this, this is your first like insomniac event since EDC Orlando? Have you had some in between?

Kiki: No, I've been to some Factory 93 events. Like I just did the, I saw Umek, Factory 93 had Umek and Space 92 at Exchange last weekend. So that was, that was pretty fun. But it's my like first InstaMaker festival, I think since CPC. Yeah. Yeah.

Olivia: That's awesome. That's so exciting. So you grew up in Vegas. I don't know why I didn't know that. Well, I remember you told me you went to school in Hawaii. Right?

Kiki: Yeah, so I graduated college in Hawaii. I went to University of Hawaii, Hilo, but I lived in Vegas from like seven to 19, so

Olivia: got it so you've

Kiki: yeah.

Olivia: always kind of been in like those warm environments.

Kiki: Yeah, it's been Vegas to Hawaii to San Diego. Yeah.

Olivia: That's awesome.

Kiki: Are you by the way, can you hear the construction outside my apartment right now?

Olivia: No.

Kiki: Okay, cool. The noise cancellation on these headphones are good. But by the way, they're building like a whole condo complex right outside my window.

Olivia: Oh my God, is this where

Kiki: Yeah.

Olivia: you make music in that room?

Kiki: Yeah, yeah, so this is my home studio. I just got my own custom studio monitors. This is my desk and it's a one bedroom apartment in Hollywood, yeah.

Olivia: That's awesome, but I feel your pain so much with construction next door. It's. It's the worst.

Kiki: Honestly, I don't really like make music during the day. So that's a good thing.

Olivia: Yeah.

Kiki: Yeah

Olivia: Yeah. I actually, I want to talk about that because I've seen you say before that you're a night owl, but just to wrap a bow on this really quick, I just moved into this, like my new house, but I was forced to move because next door they were building a condo too. And like my whole fricking office would shake and I couldn't get anything done.

Kiki: It's literally so bad right now. I mean, I actually wish I could turn on the mic so you guys can hear it because it sounds like tractors are going in reverse forever. It's like

Olivia: Yeah, yeah.

Kiki: beep. So yeah,

Olivia: You're speaking

Kiki: and then the...

Olivia: to like, you have no idea, nothing. And it's like, you can't hear yourself think, but.

Kiki: No, it's so like, honestly, like I try to like tune it out, but I can't. So I have to like, I'm so thankful that my bedrooms on the opposite side of the apartment. So

Olivia: Yeah, because like

Kiki: yeah.

Olivia: when you wake up first thing in the morning, that's not what you want to hear, especially if you're like up late nights in the studio making music.

Kiki: Yeah, like honestly, I sleep through most things. I'm a really good sleeper. So

Olivia: We're lucky.

Kiki: like I could, yeah, so I can like, I definitely can like sleep on airplanes or like just like in general with noise, but this has been like the first time I'm like, oh my God, I don't know if I can handle this,

Olivia: Yeah,

Kiki: but.

Olivia: it's so real. I mean, that's the pitfalls of like, when you're living in, you know, California, like, you know, I live in Chicago, I mean, you're just like, you have to deal with it, you know, there's ups and downs.

Kiki: Yeah, it was funny when I first got this apartment. I was like, oh look like like there's an open lot. It's Hollywood nature Now I know that's not Hollywood nature. It's a it's gonna be built and so

Olivia: Yeah, you can

Kiki: anyways

Olivia: almost guarantee, right? That like there's not going to be any nature in this.

Kiki: They actually offered us a free month of rent to sign another 12 month lease and I feel like they did that because of

Olivia: Mm-hmm.

Kiki: the construction. But anyways.

Olivia: You see through their game. Anyway, OK, on to higher vibrational things, not construction. So you, I've read about you that you're like a night owl, that you like making your music in the nighttime. From one creative to another, I always like to hear about people's processes, because I've kind of gone back and forth. I used to be a night owl. Now I'm like an early riser. So why is your music making in your creativity sessions? Why is it? Why is that happening at night for you?

Kiki: So like I've always just been more activated in general at night time. I don't really know like if there's like a discreet reason for it, but it's like always I remember in high school I would like stay up until like 4 a.m. 5 a.m. writing my journals, writing songs or just like like doing something watching Family Guy or something like you know like TV or whatever. And like when I was in college I did the same thing. And then When I graduated college, I still kept the same thing. So at this point, I'm like, I think I've just always been this way. Like, I feel like at nighttime, it's like a peace of mind where like, there's no expectations of you. Like people aren't asking anything of you. I know I'm not gonna get any like emails or like anything like intense that I need to like, like deal with like right away, you know? So also I think that at a certain point at nighttime, I feel like more in tune with my kind of like dream state. Like I like being a little bit tired, I tend to find my best melodies or cool song ideas at 6am, 7am or something like that. I'm definitely on a weird sleep schedule. One of my friends called it Mars time.

Olivia: That's a good name for a song.

Kiki: Morse time, yeah.

Olivia: Yeah. I love that. So, okay, so what the scientific term I've heard for it is called fate estate. It's like when your brain is in like this weird like hanging in the fold, like between sleep and awake.

Kiki: Yeah.

Olivia: And that's super cool. Like they say that that's when like you can manifest the most and do the craziest things because you're like in this almost like trance. And I know that, um, If you've ever seen those like sound deprivation tanks, like where you

Kiki: Totally,

Olivia: go float, where

Kiki: yeah.

Olivia: you go float, like a lot of people tend to like get creative there. So it's kind of like the same thing, like nobody's bothering you, nobody's awake.

Kiki: Yeah, it's a, I think it's like a really like just like personal like moment. I know Salvador Dali like would like be like on the brink of sleep and then start painting or something like that. There's a bunch of artists that have like used like different like sleep periods to like, sorry that's so loud,

Olivia: Nice.

Kiki: to have their like creativity. I'm also like very sensitive to sounds and when I hear stuff like that I'm like, it like really does distract me. But anyways, for me, I think that like... Um, like not everybody can like live and like, like kind of like this, like alternative, um, reality where there's like, the only real reason I need to like wake up or go to bed is because I have a show, you know, like, or I have a plane flight. Um, I do run like a party on Tuesday nights, but that's about it. So like, like I have like very little obligations, um, for 24 hours. So I get to like, really like dive into my own kind of rhythm. Um. And I think that like, it's not necessarily for everybody. I definitely can't communicate with some people because of it. Sometimes people like question, they're like, why are you, like one of my friends is always like, go to bed and then like wake up because I'm like sleeping until five or six or something. And then they're like, like wake up. And I'm like, well, you're telling me to go to bed. And then you're also telling me to wake up. And I'm like, at the end of the day, I get to sleep a lot. So it's just kind of like this like creative, like I feel like I'm getting like a natural rhythm with my own like. whatever, like whatever I need to do, you know, so

Olivia: Yeah,

Kiki: yeah.

Olivia: I think that's one of the most beautiful things about being an artist or an entrepreneur is you kind of get to design your own life. Like you get to decide this is how I'm gonna run my shit, how I'm gonna run my production, like my sleep.

Kiki: Yeah, also like taking the authority to like just like understanding that like the way like I like worked really really hard to be able to run my own sleep and it really did come down to like I do music for a lot of different reasons but I also specifically was looking for a career that allowed me to not have to wake up to alarm every day.

Olivia: Yeah, or a construction noise. Yeah.

Kiki: or construction, but yeah, now I have like a beeping yes.

Olivia: Yeah. No, that's so real. So okay, I want to take a couple steps back because when I first interviewed you at UDC, we talked about your origin story for your name

Kiki: Yeah.

Olivia: because I love your name. It's like so perfect for you. So tell the listeners of this show where Speaker Honey came from.

Kiki: Yay! Okay, so I was going to school on the Big Island of Hawaii in Hilo, and I was studying anthropology and philosophy. It was like the first time I was actually like really interested in school because culture and thought, I finally got to study things that were like interesting to me and like thought provoking or whatever. And in Hawaiian culture, names are not just given. It's like something that's like... like natural to that thing, you know? So it's like, it's not just like you just like choose a name. It's like something that like makes sense for that moment. And I was like about to graduate in six months and I was really thinking about what I was gonna do. Like people were asking me, are you gonna do an internship? Are you gonna go get like a master's degree? Are you gonna go become a teacher, whatever? And I realized I was like, like music. and art are like the main things out of all the things I've been studying, like music and art is like a true way to like really impact like people without telling them what to do. And so I realized I was like, I'm going to pursue my music like full time. Like, and I started telling people, I was like, yeah, I'm actually gonna like, when I graduate, I'm gonna pursue my music. And I knew I needed a name. And one day I was smoking a blunt with my homies that were, there was like a house full of like eight college students. and we were smoking outside next to the campus. And one of the students, one of my friends, came up with this huge jar of honey. And he was like, please take some of this honey. We had to evacuate a beehive on campus. And I was like, oh, cool, honey. There's honeycombs, crystalline, beautiful honey. And I was eating the honey. He was like, this is some of the best honey I've ever tasted. And he's like, yeah, we had to evacuate a beehive inside a speaker cabinet inside the main center campus. And I was like... Oh, it's like the vibrations, it's the frequency, it's speaker honey. And I was like, wait, it's speaker honey. And I was like, this is perfect. And like I went on, um, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, um, got speaker honey.com. Um, the website, everything. Yeah. And it was just like not existent. And so I am secretly now and it just makes a lot of sense just cause like growing up, my dad made, um, speaker cabinets and stuff, like, um, now I'm building speakers as well, like, so it's just kind of like all flows together.

Olivia: It's

Kiki: Yeah.

Olivia: so cool. And it was so smart of you to grab the website right away. Like, especially like what college kid thinks of that. That was so, so smart.

Kiki: Yeah, it's like it's I think like growing up like on the West Coast and stuff like I was used to like Like reddit and like myspace

Olivia: Mm-hmm.

Kiki: and stuff like that and I had deeply thought about my project So like I am I really formulated my project when I was like 25 26. So a lot of people like come into their music Careers like early like some people start later when I started mine I really like had like deeply thought about it at that point. You don't mean like it wasn't like like I just rushed into it at 18 or something like that.

Olivia: Yeah.

Kiki: So yeah.

Olivia: Yeah. And okay. So, so talk to me about techno because like, did you, did you start, did you wake up one day and say, I'm going to be this amazing techno artist? How, how did you manifest that from, you know, coming from school in Hawaii?

Kiki: Yeah, it was interesting because I had actually, I knew about techno, but my main influences were more electro, trip hoppy stuff, indie rock, rock and roll, progressive rock, whatever, prog rock, and when I decided, after I got the name, so I think a name becomes a vehicle, once I got the name, then it became like, okay, yeah, I'm actually doing this. So I went back to Vegas. where my mom lived. And at that time, I met some friends that were DJing and they had DJ decks at the house, in the living room, just constantly going back to back. And I was just hula hooping and just in the background. And then one day I was like, wait, why am I not, I wanna try this, I should try to DJ. And the tracks that attracted to me were techno tracks. So my first ever DJ moments were DJing techno and I just was obsessed at that point. And that's actually what changed my style too, because I hadn't really known the DJ structure or techno structure or any... It really shifted my whole production process at that point, because I had never really made techno, but I had techno elements, but it was really just because I love DJing techno. Yeah.

Olivia: That's awesome. And I like what you said about the name kind of bringing the project to life. I think there's a lot of power in a name, like you're saying. This podcast, for example, naming it made it real, elevated frequencies. That's kind

Kiki: Yeah!

Olivia: of, I was like, now I'm living up to the name, right? It kind of gives you something

Kiki: Yes.

Olivia: to aspire to.

Kiki: Yeah, well, like, I mean, like, I think that words are sacred, words are important. It's really like. Other cultures take a lot of significance in certain words and certain sayings. And I feel like in our modern day, I'm on the West Coast in America, whatever, people tend to just say things without really realizing the weight to it, you know? So I think that it's really important to recognize... I always tell people if you're going to start something, to write it down or think about the name or think about what... what it is because once that word comes, then all of a sudden you have like a structure to develop it and you have like a house for it and it can grow. It's kind of like getting a pot or whatever. Can you hear that in my microphone? It's like so

Olivia: Yeah,

Kiki: loud. No.

Olivia: it's fine. It's fine. Well, we'll have my editor is a magician. He can edit some of it out.

Kiki: Okay,

Olivia: Um,

Kiki: sounds good. It's just like really loud. Maybe I'll

Olivia: I

Kiki: shut

Olivia: know.

Kiki: the window. Should I shut the window?

Olivia: Yeah, maybe that'll help. All

Kiki: Yeah, okay. That's okay.

Olivia: right. We're, we're taking it. We're taking a quick five here.

Kiki: Five seconds, or actually like probably three.

Olivia: Cool.

Kiki: Alright, I feel like that's better.

Olivia: Cool. Okay. Writing things down. Huge to me. I have this or any notebook on my desk at all times. I write everything down. It's like

Kiki: I love that,

Olivia: the first thing I do

Kiki: yay.

Olivia: in the morning. Are you somebody who's like, do you like to do lists? What's your thing?

Kiki: So I'm like a massive journaler. I have like journals since I was like 12, 13. Like I have like a massive stack of journals. I journal every day. Like I write like my ideas, I write song lyrics. I don't really write what happens. I don't really write down things like about my personal life. I think it started when I was like 13. I remember like writing about like something that happened and then like looking back at it and being like kind of embarrassed and being like, this seems like dumb. So that I just started writing about conceptual thoughts and stuff. And I think that's what led into the philosophy and things like that. And yeah, I think that writing is a really special practice, just because you're always having a communication with other people. And there's another expectation with reality in general. But when you're writing with yourself, you can just have that moment. And there's very few times during the day that I get that, besides just

Olivia: Mm-hmm.

Kiki: writing. So, yeah.

Olivia: Yeah, and especially now, I mean, and no shit, like if you want to write stuff down on your phone, that's fine, but I think it's something that's very special about putting pen to paper because

Kiki: Oh,

Olivia: it's

Kiki: totally.

Olivia: like

Kiki: Yeah.

Olivia: a lost art. Like, we don't do that really anymore.

Kiki: Yeah, it's funny because I write in like a hybrid cursive, like so I kind of write like in cursive, but then sometimes it's not and it's funny because like I've actually had like recently someone say like, oh I can't read, like what is that? And I was like, whoa, like you know cursive's kind of dying, you know?

Olivia: Mm-hmm.

Kiki: And like, but for me like I just think like physically writing something down, it's just like someone once told me that it's like the chi energy, like from like your brain It's like you're like actually releasing something versus when you're on your phone, you're not really actually interacting. Like

Olivia: Mm-hmm.

Kiki: you're doing half the battle, you know what I mean? And I feel like typing

Olivia: Yeah.

Kiki: on the phone too is just like, sometimes I've been using the voice memo thing now, which is kind of sick, but in general I think that it doesn't compare. And also it can get deleted, I don't know.

Olivia: Yeah.

Kiki: It's just not the

Olivia: And

Kiki: same.

Olivia: you're distracted. You could be distracted.

Kiki: And it's-

Olivia: You know, notifications coming in. It's not the same.

Kiki: It's not the same, yeah, and also it just feels like, I don't know, I feel like I'll write down song lyrics on my phone or things that I want to develop further for my music, but when it comes to just free flow thought, I don't think I have a flow in my notes, you know?

Olivia: Yeah, you're just brain

Kiki: Yeah.

Olivia: dumping.

Kiki: Yeah. I don't know, I feel like what I like to write about, I have one journal that's just positive serendipity moments. That's really cool. So it's just like all the good things that happen. So whenever I'm feeling down, I just look through the things that happen and instantly feel better.

Olivia: I'm stealing that idea.

Kiki: Yeah,

Olivia: That's

Kiki: it's a

Olivia: such

Kiki: really good...

Olivia: a good idea. That's so

Kiki: yeah.

Olivia: cool. I love that. I love that because that helps you practice gratitude too. You know?

Kiki: Exactly. Yeah. And like, it also helps you remember like, like, there's like so many like special things that happen that like line up. And I think the more that you like tune into that, the more I guess you find like abundance in like your own like spiritual growth or like career growth or like what you need to do because a lot of people like don't really know what they're doing. I still kind of don't know what I'm doing. I almost know what I'm doing. Yeah.

Olivia: Yeah, but like you said, writing down all those things kind of helps you connect the dots and it makes you realize that it

Kiki: Thank

Olivia: provides

Kiki: you.

Olivia: the through line between your amazing story and the gratitude thing is so important for, like you said, achieving even more abundance. You have to be grateful for what you already have. Sometimes when life is tough, you can forget about those things very easily.

Kiki: Mm-hmm.

Olivia: I'm big on celebrating little things every day and making every day special, whether it's like a latte that's like way too expensive or like, you know,

Kiki: I'm so with you.

Olivia: because it's about it's about that's what life's about. You know, like, like I do stupid stuff, like I hold my dog up to watch the sunset with me. And I don't know if she has any fucking clue what's going on. But I'm like, this is special to me, you know, and that's what those are life's important moments.

Kiki: I'm sure your dog knows. I also have a dog, her name's Mochi, but she's not here right now, but I love Mochi so much. And I can tell, like, she really appreciates when, like, first of all, she basically goes everywhere with me besides to her, but, like, I know that she recognizes, like, when I'm trying to show her something or, like, experience something with her. And, like, I think, like, animals are definitely, like, I don't know, it's my first dog, so.

Olivia: It's mine too. It's mine too. Yeah.

Kiki: Oh, crazy,

Olivia: Yeah.

Kiki: yay.

Olivia: Yeah. It's a really special bond. And, you know, I think in your case, when it comes to music too, you can speak about this better than I can, but there's got to be those special moments when you are DJing for a crowd and you look out and maybe you see something. Do you feel that way? Are you ever like when you're up on stage or you like pinch me, like, I can't believe this is real?

Kiki: Yeah, it's crazy because I heavily get the chills. Like sometimes, basically I don't prepare. I prepare my sets, my set lists. But when I'm actually on the decks and in front of the crowd, I'm really paying attention to what's the environment around me. And I'm taking risks. And there's been times where... certain song combinations I've never done before, like just like work out and there's like one moment where like everything's like in key and then you just like see like not just one person but like multiple people like having that moment and I know like on the opposite end what that feels like and it just like gives me this like huge like like I don't know it's like like chill sensation you know yeah I'm very attentive to that um that's actually like it gives it gives me so much energy because like like I could literally DJ for like 12 hours. Yeah.

Olivia: That's how

Kiki: Oh

Olivia: you

Kiki: yeah,

Olivia: know

Kiki: I think I

Olivia: you're in the right profession.

Kiki: definitely chose the right profession. Yeah. I think I definitely chose the right profession. Yeah.

Olivia: That's so cool. Yeah, I mean, being on the other side, like, you know, as a fan, as a listener, hearing, and I've been to your set before in Chicago and just as a music fan in general, those moments that you're talking about are things that we talk about with our loved ones or online the next day.

Kiki: awww

Olivia: We're like, oh my God, that moment when, you know, Speaker Honey did this or like played this song or, you know, looking at your Shazam the next morning and being like, oh my God, I got it, you know. Those are the things that make this music and this community so special.

Kiki: Yeah.

Olivia: It's just so much more intimate too. Like no shade to any other type of music, but like there's this intimacy that I think makes it that much better.

Kiki: Well that's what I love about techno, electro, this progressive, hypnotic sound because it's not really telling you to feel a certain way. I love all different genres of music but I feel like specifically I look for those tracks that just make you feel excited and stoked without predisposition of like... too much emotion. I really don't like to do like, I don't know how to say it, moody vocals

Olivia: Mm-hmm.

Kiki: or stuff like

Olivia: Mm-hmm.

Kiki: that. And that music's great and there's a place and a time for that, but I like peak time, like let's fucking go, party, let's feel great, this is the moment of our lives, this is why we're here kind of moment.

Olivia: Yeah, and it provides that release that so many of us like desperately need after, you know, a lot of people are going to their nine to fives and masking, and then they get to go to these shows and be themselves, and we need that release.

Kiki: Totally, like a safe space and also just like a free zone. I've had a lot of really heart-touching stories of people. One time, there was this nurse that came up to me after my set and she was like, thank you so, so much. I had the worst day in the ER, stuff like that. Or people that said, I just went through a lot of... like family stuff and being here with you right now or I lost somebody like there's like some it gets heavy even though we're like all partying and having a good time like we're actually like definitely like healing together and like I think that like recognizing that there's that aspect as well to like what like we're providing like as artists so like I think about that stuff that's also why I don't like to get too moody because I like to like be like let's go like

Olivia: Yeah,

Kiki: we're live

Olivia: yeah, no, and I know the nurse that you spoke about and so many of us appreciate that, having somebody be able to just turn our bad week upside down into something positive.

Kiki: Yeah!

Olivia: It's why we attend these things, you know? Like people don't go like... I'm sorry, but you don't go to like top 40 clubs where they're playing like, you know, what they play on the radio because you just love that music so much. There's a different vibe for those types of places versus the shows that you're playing, where it's like, we are here for a very specific reason. And everybody might come from, you know, there's nurses, there's people who might, you know, they're truck drivers, whatever their profession is, but they're all there

Kiki: Yeah.

Olivia: for the collective reason to like release and just find a little bit of joy.

Kiki: Yes, I like what I love too is like when like somebody that has not like so I have some friends that like like or like people that have met that are like oh I don't like techno and I'm like you have to you have to go to an art like like the right event because I think that like there's a space in place for like certain genres of music right and someone might have been playing like like 145 like hard groove techno at like a beach party or something or in like someone's living room at like 4pm and they're like, I hate this.

Olivia: Yeah.

Kiki: But then when you actually experience like the real moment and what the artist is giving, it's not just the genre. I've had like a lot of like turnaround moments where they're like, I actually kind of like techno. Like,

Olivia: Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Kiki: yeah, so it's good. And I'm not just like, I'm not just playing techno, like, I describe it as like techno electro trance, just because that's the best way I can describe it. I feel like like the genre like doesn't really make sense, but like this, like the, the avenue I'm kind of like going with my new productions is like has a little bit elements of like dove, you know, like I like, like, like I said, like trip hoppy stuff. So

Olivia: Mm-hmm.

Kiki: I'm trying to like go a little bit like playful and like not like super just like, like massive breakdown and then just like, like

Olivia: Yeah.

Kiki: beats all the time. But I did just get a Digitone beat machine. It's like a polyphonic synthesizer. So I am going to start trying to make my life set so maybe I'll maybe I might do hard group.

Olivia: That's cool. That's so freaking cool. You're obviously so creative and you pull from so many different inspirations and it doesn't just come across in your music, it comes across in your style too.

Kiki: Mmm.

Olivia: I mean, I love the way, every single picture of you on Instagram, you're wearing something completely different, which

Kiki: me.

Olivia: is an amazing accomplishment. And

Kiki: Cool. How

Olivia: how

Kiki: do

Olivia: do

Kiki: you

Olivia: you

Kiki: hold

Olivia: pull that off?

Kiki: that up? You know, honestly, like, I feel like, like I definitely love fashion. I've always loved fashion, but I like to feel like creative with my outfits. And most of my stuff is like small fashion brands or like my friends stuff, you know, like this is my friend's hat. I got this shirt for free. It says Oktoberfest 2020. Like

Olivia: I had to stay six times

Kiki: this.

Olivia: apart. That

Kiki: Yeah, I know. Yeah. Yeah. It's six times apart.

Olivia: was awesome.

Kiki: This necklace was gifted to me at a festival. I actually know it was at when I was in Denver. Yeah. So like a lot of my stuff, it's funny, like organically kind of just like develops and then I like put it together. But yeah, I don't know. I've always just like really enjoyed like dressing up just because like, I feel like when I like wear like an interesting outfit, it gives like a certain like energy to the room and people like interact. like differently because like I'm like looking cute or whatever and then like I've never really been a model but then I've just like learned to be a model and I've been having a really good time with it so yeah

Olivia: That's awesome. And you know, I saw like, I go on TikTok way too much, but on TikTok I saw this video the other day where it's like, don't underestimate the power of dressing up in a way that makes you feel good, like all the time, because when you feel your best, like you're able to produce better results for whatever it is you're doing. And you know,

Kiki: Yeah, yeah.

Olivia: I think it's so true. Like I'll notice a difference between when I like, am going out wearing something I really love, it's a- cool fit that I put a lot of thought into versus just like, and to be honest, most of the time, like I'm in sweatpants right now. Like I wear sweatpants

Kiki: Well yeah,

Olivia: a lot.

Kiki: I'm

Olivia: Yeah.

Kiki: like half-dry. I'm like literally wearing the weirdest outfit.

Olivia: Yeah. Yeah.

Kiki: But yeah.

Olivia: But it's all about being comfy in the home. But I do notice that I'm like more on my A game when I feel really put together in something that represents me.

Kiki: Totally, and I think that as an artist as well, I've really sat deep into what speaker any, speaker any is like a sound, but it's also a style, and it's a vibe, it's just a frequency. So I think that at this point, I'm just basically living and breathing my artist project. In general, I don't really have, I guess I have some days where I wear random things, but I've kind of gotten rid of all the things in my closet that are like... like not my vibe, like I just like made an intention to do that. I mean by my vibe I mean like either something my friends made or like something green or something black. So yeah.

Olivia: That's awesome. And it's got to feel really good to be in alignment, like all across the board with your music project, the way you're presenting yourself to the world, fashion-wise, aesthetically. Like, having that level of authenticity is really something special that not everybody can say they

Kiki: Thank

Olivia: have.

Kiki: you. Yeah, well I think that someone once told me, not everybody's like a lighthouse, but if you do have the light, it's important to shine it. I think that following, some people ask, what direction should I go? And I think just following your authentic, what you really like, not really focusing on what other people are doing, but just tuning in with what's your personal taste and having like strengthen that and being like trusting in yourself is like a really important like lesson and not everybody like needs to do that. I know everybody's like different flavors and there's like different types of people all throughout the world that make the world go round whatever but like I think that like if you feel like you want to like do like pursue like more art or like be more expressive just like trusting yourself and not looking at other people is like the most important thing because like If you start looking at everything else, you're just going to get distracted and not know where's up or down or whatever. So, yeah.

Olivia: That's I like that a lot. Be a lighthouse. That's really cool. If you're a lighthouse,

Kiki: Yeah!

Olivia: be a lighthouse. I love that. Well, I've taken up a lot of your time, but before we wrap up, tell people where they can find you online, music projects coming up, let them know.

Kiki: Yeah, okay, so everything's at Speaker Honey. It's spelled S-P-E-A-K-E-R-H-O-N-E-Y, not hunny. And then you can find all my music on Spotify, Apple Music. I have some music videos you should check out on YouTube. I'm going to be DJing, headlining at Area 15 this Thursday in Vegas for EDC Week. And then I'm playing at Seismic Dance event in Austin on Saturday. And then you might find me at EDC on Sunday. So...

Olivia: Ooh, exciting. Well, thank you so much for your time. It was so great to talk to you, as always.

Kiki: Yeah, yeah, thank you so, so much. All right, sweet.

Olivia: Okay.