Creator to Creators S4 Ep 26 Ayr Majesty

By Kurt Beyers“She’s a Samurai,” a recently released single off AYR Majesty’s album Xenna, highlightsan incredible body of work the Los Angeles artist has put out so far this year.It also shows off his trait of creating music that is “new and different.” This “Samurai” is anew version of the song that is on the album that was released earlier this year.“It’s a song about the other side of having a relationship with someone — the double-edged sword of being emotionally attached to someone and how you can feel veryaffected by that person,” he said.He got the idea from Romeo and Juliet, especially the scene from Act 5 where Romeodrinks poison when he finds his true love dead because her family will never let her bewith Romeo. But AYR’s mind turned to the Japanese samurai tradition of seppuku, aritual suicide to avoid dishonor or the shame of defeat.Dark stuff, but AYR wanted to play with the concept. In his song, the Juliet character isthe poison, and the Romeo’s suicide is figurative and emotional rather than literal:The bloody queen, she’s cutting me I’m outa feelingDishonor me, and leave me beaten bruised no reasonShe’s cutting me like a samurai,Knife I die, seppuku like a samurai“I always assumed, like everyone else, that Romeo was dumb for killing himself. But asI got older, I kind of understood him a little bit in terms of why he felt so defeated or lostwithout investment in the world. That’s what the song is about. It’s that feeling that yourworld is gone, and you’re losing your motivation for life. But I was also thinking that itseems like it’s just called growing up.”He took another angle, too.“I chose a dark wave song, which is a kind of dark, grungy rockish that I’d never heardbefore. Honestly when I first heard it, I had no idea how it was going to turn out, but itended up my favorite song.”Part of his musical vision is “switching it up, going to the studio not really knowing howyou’re going to do something, but you have an idea, and you’re really challenging thenorm.”That was his idea with “She’s a Samurai,” and though it turned out to be his favorite, hedoes worry because it is dark wave.On the other hand, “I think it is very catchy, and it sums up my album because it is verynew and different, and that’s really what my album is. I feel like this grungy dark songbrought out the better side of my musical abilities.”He says the album has what he describes as more commercially normal songs, but hisaim remains “new and different.” Part of that is experimenting with sounds throughengineering.One example is a cover of Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon” in a heavy, hardcharging beat and up-tempo rock-pop-hip hopish melodies and vibe and featuringelectronic instrumentation.AYR, a San Antonio, Texas, native, has been making music since 2016, when he was at Texas A&M University “rapping in my dorm and annoying my roommate.”“Back then I was listening to a lot of Tupac and some of that old school rap, a lot of that’90s yell-type rapping in my room.” That involved a lot of late nights and going to classwiped out, but “I was just so passionate about music.”So passionate that the kid who went to A&M to play football, and got a walk-on positionon the team, found that as his passion for music increased his passion for footballsuffered a corresponding decline.Now, after years of “hiding” his music, burying it on his computer, keeping it to himself “because I’ve always been a perfectionist.”“I have grown over the years, and this year I decided to take it seriously and go to a studio.” Once started, like in the dorm, he can’t stop. “I keep thinking, ‘Okay, even if that song’s good, maybe my next one’s gonna be the best one.’ So, it’s hard for me to stop.”His aim remains to make new, different music and sounds. The greats, he says, all found a new way of making music. “I’ve always wanted to do that,” he said. “I’ve always been intrigued by new ideas, and I feel like I have a lot of potential, that I can do certain things that might be unique, andthat I can bring something that people haven’t heard, something new.”Stay connected to AYR Majesty on all platforms for new music, videos, and social posts.“She’s a Samurai”:https://open.spotify.com/track/6VKSWYSUxRETfgrOc8sT63?si=602924c18c1448f3Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/es-co/artists/B0C448KCHC/ayr-majestySpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2UbAneUDU1qxSNko0QQ4l5YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcj4jl0vXLyq1kPZC4SfdXQBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/creator-to-creators-with-meosha-bean--4460322/support.