BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:237@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T232500 DTSTAMP:20220215T215703Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/dodie-build-a-problem-tour/ SUMMARY:Dodie "Build a Problem Tour" DESCRIPTION:GA ADVANCED - $24 DAY OF SHOW - $26\nDODIE \n“Building a pro blem” is a line from a song on dodie’s second studio album. She found herself with a bit of a problem because she’d already named her previous EP Human\, and the songs she found herself writing for the album really a dded up to the same idea\; the flawed\, emotionally erratic\, wondrously c omplex conundrum that is being alive - and Human was taken. But\nthis line \, from a song named ‘Hate Myself’\, seemed to add up to a similar con cept\; the moments and actions in life that build within us all problems t hat we don’t even realize we have until we look back and go\, “Ohhhh\, that’s where that came from.”\n\ndodie\, whose past is still infiltra ting her present and her future\, explores all of this and more on her mus ically ambitious and dreamily intimate record named - what else? - Build A Problem. At just 25\, dodie has already done a lot of living. Some of tha t has played out on camera as she made a name for herself as\na singer and writer online\, amassing millions of fans with her disarmingly honest vid eos and affecting\, intimate singing style. She headlined and sold out Lon don’s Roundhouse before her first album was even out\, played the Hollyw ood Palladium and Terminal 5 on the other side of the pond and scored two top-ten EPs. dodie doesn’t tend to rest on her laurels.\n“I think for some people if you kind of boiled down an idea of me\, it might be ‘just a girl with a ukelele’ which I’m really bugged by\,” she says of he r online beginnings. An understandable irritant when you delve into her wo rk\; on Build A Problem she has matured into an exceptional musician\, usi ng eldritch modes (for example\, Lydian mode - a seven-note scale that ori ginated in ancient Greece and underpins many Gregorian chants)\, writing c omplex string arrangements and imbuing each song with a sense of charming intimacy.\n\nShe wrote most of the songs on the album over the past two ye ars. “I think I was going through a crisis actually\,” she says now. “I was very unsure of who I was and I was trying to figure it out in mus ic. So I think it’s quite unstable of an album - but it’s definitely h onest.” Being too honest is something dodie has struggled with on social media\, realising that she needed to create more boundaries between her p ublic and private selves (“I think it’s to do with the fact I really d idn’t have any boundaries growing up”) but songwriting always comes fr om a place of truth. “This is going to sound insanely pretentious\,”\n she laughs\, “But with art I do believe there are no boundaries. I feel like I'm being very\, very vulnerable. But hopefully\, the music will prot ect me...”\nFriends asked her\, for instance\, if she was sure about inc luding the song ‘Four Tequilas Down’\, a misdirectingly sweet song abo ut an illicit\, ill-advised liaison\, “a mistake”\, held between two i nstrumental tracks that were too painful even to put a name on\; they are titled ? and . “I wrote question mark as an idea a while ago\; I wanted to sing in a mode called Lydian\, it sounds quite old\, almost like a warn ing to me. I added more harmonies and the string tremeloes which are kind of like a rumble underneath. I wanted that song to be like\, inception of an idea. An unhealthy idea.” The unhealthy idea is expounded on in Four Tequilas Down then reckoned with in . [full stop]\, which she describes as “a very sad sort of realisation and acceptance.”\n\nThe painful work on herself that went into the record is echoed in the often sparse\, frequ ently painful arrangements. She found herself scoring the string parts on her laptop “on planes\, in random places”\, trying to get the midi pla yback to communicate the emotions she was feeling. When she finally heard the 13-piece string orchestra playing them in the studio she was overwhelm ed by tears. “I was supposed to count them in and I just... couldn’t\, ” she says. It’s work she is intensely proud of but very nervous to sh are. “I listened to the whole album and I’m like\, maybe this isn’t a great thing to share. But it’s a beautiful reflection of the dark thin gs I feel.”\n\ndodie has been very open about her mental health\; she ha s suffered from depersonalisation disorder for eight years\, many of which she spent desperately searching for a name for what was wrong with her. “It feels like living in a daydream\,” she says. “But it’s all the time.” Though there is no real treatment for the disorder\, she has fou nd support through her charity\, Unreal\, and simply knowing what it is an d that other people understand has helped. Managing her depression\, which is triggered by the disorder\, has also become more of a priority\; regul ar therapy and writing are all part of that. “Mental health is something we all carry with us\,” she reflects. Though she tries to be positive a nd accepting of it\, the songs on Build A Problem have allowed her to work through the negative feelings that come with it too. “It's so much heal thier to be like\, I accept it. Whereas I think in songs I’m sort of lik e opening another door in my mind and being like\, this is really bad and I hate it and I hate living with it.”\n\nIn 2017\, dodie came out as bis exual. She did it\, of course\, in song titled to dispel any ambiguity: “I’m Bisexual”. Though she was nervous of the reception a mere glanc e at the comments relating to the video reveal that such a public coming o ut helped others to do the same. “I think when I was coming out I wanted to talk about it all the time because I wasn’t allowed to\,” she says looking back. “I was expecting people to look at me like\, what?” But the song felt freeing. “It felt like I could talk about this taboo thin g and not have any solid consequences. And it felt great! I was getting al l this love and praise and it felt so good.” Like much of her reflection in the last two years\, dodie is now figuring out what about her personal life can be kept a little closer to herself. But now it’s not because o f shame or fear\; it’s her choice. “I think sexuality can be whatever you want it to be. And for me\, I think I want it to be a little more priv ate\; I’m sort of feeling the aftermath of coming out and dealing with s ome internalized feelings. So yeah\, perhaps if someone asked me and I fan cy sharing about it [I will]\, but mostly\, I think now I'm gonna be a lit tle bit more to myself.”\n\nShe’s also working through a lot of family issues. She talks around her upbringing\, the root of her issues with bou ndaries and it’s clear that there are still very emotional elements that it’s hard for her to discuss. She alludes to the building of problems s tarting when she was very young and frank when says that mistakes were mad e. Her relationship with her parents is something she and they are still w orking on\; sometimes apart\, but often with her mum\, together. “I’ve spoken to my mum about it a lot\,” she says. “We’ve been working th rough it together\, helping each other to process. She has gone\nthrough h er own journey of accepting and understanding who she was and who she now is. Mistakes were definitely made\, and boundaries were crushed. A lot sti ll are.” Therapy\, she says\, has helped (but it’s also “really fuck ing hard”)\; songwriting helps too. “A lot of them are about my parent s and [me] being written wrong\, and trying to navigate life with that.” \n\nThough the themes are very heavy and the music is at times painful\, B uild A Problem is not a difficult album to listen to. The way that dodie c rafts songs means she is meticulous about what she puts into a piece\; she ’s not a throw it all at the wall and see what sticks kind of songwriter . There is a vein of hope running through the record\, a way of dealing wi th the hard emotions at play. “It sounds so lame\,” she says of what s he wants the album to achieve\, “But what I really hope for is understan ding. I would love people\, whoever they are to listen to this album and b e like\, I get it. I relate to this.” dodie may be a work in progress\; problems have been built\, mistakes have been made. But with an album like Build A Problem under her belt\, she’s proven that she can turn pain in to art and do it with a smile. 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