The Beats Bullhorn

Episode 4: JUST A BIG SOFTIE (FKA BECK PETE)

September 08, 2021 Erica Andreozzi
The Beats Bullhorn
Episode 4: JUST A BIG SOFTIE (FKA BECK PETE)
Show Notes

Join host Erica Andreozzi (@beatsthatsetmypulse) & co-host Greg Settino (@gregsettino) for a chat with Rebecca Peters -@justabigsoftie (FKA Beck Pete) – to discuss life during the pandemic and the silver linings discovered throughout. We’ll learn about how we first met (thanks to Michelle Young of ROVE) and how Beck first integrated herself into the LA music scene after moving from Sacramento over 5 yrs ago. We’ll touch on her love for vulnerability and honesty (which pairs quite well with her IG name) and her perspective that it’s more than OK to speak about tragedies that have broken you. She explains how the loss of her father has influenced her music and inspired songs like, ‘‘Me, Denial, and Space’ (which she wrote in his bathtub after his funeral). We’ll discuss how the support from other LA musicians who’ve also lost loved ones has helped her navigate intense grief (aka “big feels”) and how she often breaks down in tears knowing that strangers will likely be mean to these people, not knowing what they have been through. We’ll also touch on Beck’s preference for letting go of rehearsed movement and vomiting out on stage whatever primal, raw emotion she feels. Beck will elaborate on the choreography direction for her next music video and the significance of Lake Tahoe as a muse for helping her finish her next album. I can’t WAIT for this album and for the release of its first single, ‘Big Mouth’ (which I luckily got to hear Beck play at The Hotel Café in July). Beck is one of my favorite female artists and the LA music scene is incredibly lucky to have her.   Other topics in the podcast include: spine-tingling vomit, flicking people off that the grocery store, slivering around in a silver suit, claw hands, modern dance, music video choreography, Tahoe sunsets, learning to love yourself, “I’m having a bum day, so here’s my  bum." :P