Her leading goal in creating music, honesty is something she values and puts into every song by relying on personal experiences, a refreshing sensation when it can seem like other artists are just selling. Her debut EP, which wasn’t out at the time of our interview, is titled a study of the human experience volume one, alluding to those emotions at the forefront of her first two singles as creating a moment for open discussion on life. “It’s definitely a study of my own experience — my personal experiences and everything that I’ve done in my life, but it also is a collaborative project,” GAYLE said about her first body of accumulated music. “I worked with other writers and producers, and they put themselves in the music as well. It’s not particularly just a study of my human experience; it’s a study of the human experiences involved with the project.” Adding fun twists to her work, GAYLE is devoted to treating each piece more experimentally, whether sonically, collaboratively, or topically. Like the title says, it is all a study. Her favorite song from the EP proves her ability to defy being just one kind of artist — not being what many would expect from her. Talking about her song “kiddie pool”, Gayle said: “Somebody asked me a question like ‘That seems like such a different place for you sonically; how did you get to that place of wanting to experiment with yourself?’ It’s funny because I wrote that song before any other songs on the project. I wrote that when I was 15 with my best friend Sarah Davis who was 18. It was about six months to a year before we wrote ‘abcdefu’ – I was madly in love with my boyfriend who we ended up writing it about. I loved him so much, and I wanted to tell him, and that was a scary thing. It’s such a vulnerable thing being like, ‘Hey, I’m in love with you.’ So, that song is about experiencing love for the first time and young love and admitting that to a person.” Showing that there are many sides to her, she proves that her EP is not about taking her one sound and running with it. It’s about showing evolution to her listeners, something that they BTS
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