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(music playing, lyrics: My fragile soul didn't...)
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hi I'm Naomi Neuts, I'm from Oregon and I am responsible for the song Mosaic
I wrote the lyrics to mosaic and I'm also the singer for Mosaic
it was not something that I was expecting to do
I was in the car with my family and all of a sudden these lyrics came to me and I
stopped everything I was doing and found a piece a paper which happened to be
a receipt
and I still have it and and I found a pen
in the car and I asked everybody in the car to be quiet so that I can write down
these lyrics
and later it was very clear to me that it was supposed to be a song
so this wasn't something that I planned however I have been singing ever since I
was a kid
and when I was an elementary school I was in
a choir and in high school I was in various different choirs
and and even in college i'd I did music venues
so it's something I've always done
but it's not something I've ever tried to pursue as a career
Mosaic
is about somebody who is broken and
and no matter what walk of life that you come from there are various things that
are going to hurt your heart and soul and some of us more than others
anything from breakups to
a divorce to leaving
a best friend, a death, there are various things that cause us to
just feel broken and but the beauty of it is
we have an opportunity to be the author of our
have our own story and to have our lives be the way we want it to be
if we're willing to pick up the pieces and put it back together you can be
something really beautiful
and the picture that came to me was mosaics
its various fragments of other things
sometimes pots that have been broken
and put into
something else or
sometimes you'll see random pieces of silverware people use a very different
mediums for mosaics but when you stand back and look at it its all of these
beautiful colors
vibrant and it's something that's repurposed
when we have tragedies that happen and our lives
its horrible that they happened but it makes us stronger
and it gives us an opportunity to be more empathetic to other people are
going through difficult times
we can use those skills of how we felt
and how we chose
to deal with that situation and share that information with somebody else that
will then help them
so the song is specifically about
you know you don't have to become a victim
to a tragedy you can choose to do something different with it
and we're all responsible for our own journey
well I learned that I'm a really good singer and
various situations throughout my
upbringing and even when I was in college I kept getting the
impression that I wasn't good enough and
and I think the thing that all of this has taught me
was I am good enough and
I can have a career in this and I can do what I really really love to do
and it can make other people happy and the production process was not
smooth,it was difficult and
anytime that you work with a team of people it
is a challenge but its all on how much compassion
that you have for the other person, how much you want to listen
to everybody who's involved with that production
I don't know how to at play an instrument and I don't know
engineering so those because those are not my expertise
I have to rely on people who are in my team we do have this expertise
And when
you approach everything with an open heart and an open mind and that
you know they want to make their money to and there
there to help you and you approach it from there doing the best that they can
because they have that's a mission that you do
than everything falls into place
but you know it it's a process just like everything else
well I'm very energy sensitive and I could feel the energy building
I between myself and the people that I was working with and all the
behind-the-scenes
and business *** I love this and
I started jumping up and down because I had so much
energy flowing through myself that
it it was just amazing how
all Investec our talents and put it together and made something so
incredible
I'm when I heard myself saying for the first time
I cried I felt like I sounded like an angel I thought it was the most
beautiful thing I've ever heard
and it's too hope brings tears to my eyes
to think that I created something so
amazing I didn't think that I had it in me
but apparently I did
day it was care excitement
and tears of joy excitement I
Tim Dolbear did an amazing job
I his job was to make sure that no matter what device
music let's listen to you on that was consistent and he just made everything
for topped of you know just when you have something
you know to a point where you don't think it could get any more perfect in
your soap added that he just made it that much more perfect and I my heart
started racing
and I started realizing that I love this was going to become a reality
well it was very disappointing at first
I literally a and dropped to my knees
and was feeling really really hurt at first no sales were coming and people
would go and listen to the song over and over and over again
out but they wouldn't purchase it ans that was really hurtful
and it made me I'm really second-guess myself home maybe
I love this emotion strong emotion I was hearing a song that came to me and how I
felt after I heard it in tears
you now maybe I'm just you know tooting my own horn maybe
maybe there isn't any I'm
but then when I started releasing it to the mass public
always said that changed I started getting reviews
I started getting sales and I got a lot
very positive feedback and
and that lifted my spirits and made me feel
like this was all worth it but you know there's a such thing as a term called
starving artist
and a few really believe and somebody and something that they're doing
you have to put your money where your mouth is because all of us have to be
able to
support our family and
I and you know in the process of trying to decide how much investment
I wanted to do it this is this going to be part time is this going to be full
time
and depending on how many sales I make is is really going to be that make it or
break it
so do you really like this really not and
that's a decision for you have to make so for copyright reasons I can't really
say the name of the song or any of the lyrics but I can take the concepts
behind the song:
I'm when we hear there are sound waves are some people
refer to it as a vibration it goes in hits
the hairs inside right here and that it had stayed here drama and
that information and is translated it goes to my brain and we interpret mass
ends
but what happens when somebody says something in our room
but there's no one there to hear it what happens to that sound wave does it
continue to bounce off the walls
and know what happens once it hits our had I don't know about you
several times I've had situations where I've walked into a room
and their is I'm a clear feeling
that I'm not welcome or clear feeling that I'm
very well and so the song is about
what happened this to that vibration
why is it that way feel it I'm
even though we don't hear it by the human here and someone could be
you know across the country across the world and yet we still
feel I'm that which had Saturday that was
and there's been no scientific reason as to why that is
so the song is about
well I have a really big passion for humanitarian work
I always had and I narrow that down to the Hamilton
menus one isn't working with military and veterans families
and the other is working with and
currently I have an emphasis here and
but there's a lot of fear I rounds
breaking opened the truth it means that we have to
I'm come to terms as a nation that we're not making the best
choices I'm and that there are better solutions
and I'm not sure that our country is ready for that yet so
my hope is that with my music I'll be able
to hurry I'm to take money if from
myself and repurpose it put it back into the Institute
and continue to help and veterans and their families
giving them that therapeutic
than you that they need that they're not really getting
I'm through the already existing systems an eyeful intentions have opening up a
trust
I and so that it will be something that's
continuously available for those that I hire
and I will be doing research
ongoing so that the academic community will be able to
look at what we're doing and see what's actually working and
and we will be continuing to put money into
research that's already banned done
and trying to be represented as something new that we're trying to
figure out
well
I'm a generation X-ers so and
I am one of those people that believe that
there are a bunch of systems that arts at the way that they should be
and need some tweaking morphing maybe just some extinction altogether
and I want my fans to feel free to contact me
and please don't ask me any anything inappropriate because I want answered
but I want you to be able to talk to me and typically
artist aren't available there I have found that
there's nothing more irritating then when I try and contact somebody
and who has some really high status
and they can't find the time to answer my question and
and they're important questions so out just give you an example but I won't
call anybody out on this video
I'm I had Sam add questions
about chemicals relating to
veterans and I know that they have incredibly high exposure to
various different chemicals and because I have this person's
and can actions and research and and because this person is a doctor
I contacted them because I
I wanted to interview them and I wanted to talk to them further
about how veterans can detox and
bring attention that maybe we can do something different said it they don't
have to
get all these chemicals put into their bodies and they
wouldn't response me so I don't want to do that and I know that it's going to be
very challenging
I'm them or known I become the more busier am going to become but i wanna
make time for my family of
I want you to be able to ask me questions I'm a pretty
down to earth individual and I really care about people
and I'm especially when there's a question that's
really really important I want to be able to answer I'm also thinking
about I creating my own label because I don't want
anyone controlling this process but me I
I think there's some really important messages
that and I have responsibility for
I know that there are going to be young kids that are going to be looking at me
as a role model
the more popular that I become and and
I don't want to be doing a bunch airbrushing and I don't want to be
try to present myself to something that I'm not I don't think that there's any
justice
for anyone I'm I think that it's really important that you know who I truly am
I will continue to stay and the genre
that I'm and however depending on where you look me up
I'm call different things some people say that I'm folk I'm not really sure
that I'm comfortable
with calling myself ok I some people say that I'm instrumental some people are
calling me new-age
and each land has add to friends
feel to it for me I'm
I will probably always had some sorta
message and my music that's really
d I spent a lotta time in academia
and doing research and so I can't help but wanted
discuss those really deep issues and I think about things and different ways
and and so I want to bring those out for everybody
here and in a way that's not frightening music is a way to do that
well I hope you continue to enjoy my music
and support me on this journey so I can continue sick anymore at
and and if you have any questions feel free to
meet me message and I will do everything that I can
and to respond back to you and
I i'm looking forward to leading out the next
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