
Talking Dogs
The first time Bunny spoke, it was like a light bulb turned on in her furry head. The two-year-old, black-and-white sheepadoodle didn’t speak in the
DROOL: During the COVID-19 lockdown you recorded your debut album, which comes out this fall. Tell us a little bit about your writing and recording process.
Cynthia: There’s a song on the album that’s seven years old, and there’s a song on the album that is three or four years old, but a lot of it I wrote during quarantine over Zoom. I recorded everything, re-vocaled everything in my house or in the house I was filming at in Atlanta. Every song is a link to who I am, the people I’ve met, the people I love, and what I’ve been through. It all starts with a melody. Someone plays something until they find a melody that sticks to me, and when it sticks, I’ll just ask them to keep playing it over and over again. That melody usually gives me the lyrics for the top line, or the lyrics for the verse… verse or chorus, I can’t tell you which comes first, it depends on the day. Sometimes a song tells me that I need a bridge, sometimes it tells me that I don’t need a bridge; it always depends on the day. There’s a song that I wrote in an hour and 15 minutes, and no song took more than three hours to write. I don’t know why… maybe it’s because I’m impatient. It’s also because when I get an idea, it comes almost fully formed, and I don’t want to leave the space until I’m finished. I know what I’m writing about. I know the story I’m trying to tell. I just have to find the words to tell it.
DROOL: From Harriet Tubman to Aretha Franklin, how does it feel to portray such important, powerful, influential women of color, and are there any women of color you hope to play in the near future?
Cynthia: I feel like my particular mission in this life is to keep telling stories of the Black women who have either never graced this earth and are fictional, or who have graced this earth with the work that they did and changed it because they were here. Aretha had nearly a 70-year career, and I got to tell a little bit of that. She really was one of the heroes of mine who taught me how to tell a story through music. Learning about her, learning about the way she used music to tell her story was a real journey, and one I’ll never really forget.
Keep up-to-date on Cynthia, Caleb and Gigi: @cynthiaerivo
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