Brisbane rising star Georgia Mae has just released her latest single, Time With You, kicking yet another goal this year. Not only has she nailed this one on the head, but she also works as a composer for film and television has written music for shows such as Keeping Up With the Kardashians and the Real Housewives series, and nabbed herself two nominations for the Queensland Music Awards and found herself sitting on of 700,000 plays on Spotify for just this song along. Not. Bloody. Bad.
Set to continue to take this year by storm, we get the feeling we haven’t seen anything yet from this lady. To get to know her a bit better before she well and truly explodes, we asked her about the three albums that changed her life. Prefacing her choices by telling us, “It’s worth mentioning the shift I believe many of us have gone through from listening to albums to listening to artists. I’ve inherited hundreds of CDs from my parents, and used to buy albums every weekend until about 5 years ago. Online streaming and being spoilt for choice has twisted the nature of listening. So interestingly, my choice of influential albums is perhaps restricted to my teetering prehistoric CD collection.” Check out her answers below and keep your eyes peeled – Georgia Mae is just getting started!
Radiohead, In Rainbows
I wrote up a big report on this album at uni, with particular focus on Weird Fishes, so I could gush about it all day. Very quickly though, I think I worked out an equation that explains why it’s so damn addictive and satisfying: rhythmic sophistication + honest emotional execution + Thom’s intrigue + Jonny’s sex appeal – genre limitations = pot of gold.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Stadium Arcadium
The coolest thing about this album for me is the pretty drastic stylistic osmosis that happens (without causing any sense of upset for the listener). The band shows off its dynamic talent by feeding rock, funk, pop, folk and probably other things into one of those NutriBullet things, then dishes up some spicy flavour. I think Anthony’s energetic vocal rhythm has been a big influence on the way I write lyrics. And probably my greatest wish is to abduct Flea and make him record on my tracks.
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Gosh, literally everything about this is influential. Its progressive songwriting, studio performance and production were revolutionary, and I could talk about that forever, but maybe the other really important influence it’s had on me is the lyrical/psychological journey it goes through. It’s almost like a storybook – a ‘beginning to end’ type of listen that meaningfully threads chapters together. Watching Beyonce‘s Lemonade reminded me of Dark Side in its fluidity as a wholistic work of art, not so much just a collection of songs.
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