(L: Gallant, Tablo, Eric Nam & T. Accord | A&C: Lophiile)
[T] You got me feeling like
Ohh You get me liftin like..
Let’s Go.
[G] these flies on my window are winners in a losing game
dip duck roll and hover they barely see a season change while you and me live like birds on a power line, hands slipping and our fingers fried, god bless those northern lights and our own devices babe– entropy multiplies, clock’s ticking and i’m mortified cause in the back of my mind, in the back of my hemisphere:
[G] baby i want you to cave me in so maybe i won’t have to admit it baby i want you to cave me in so maybe i won’t ask to forget it
[T] LOVE HAS EITHER GOT YOU OVER HEELS OR OVERDOSED IT’S GOT YOU OFF YOUR FEET OR ON YOUR TOES IT’S GOT YOU OUT YOUR SEAT OR IN YOUR PLACE IT’S GOT YOU DIGGIN’ IT OR YOUR GRAVE LOVE HAS GOT YOU MAD ABOUT OR JUST ABOUT MAD GOT YOU IN A CRUSH OR IT’S GOT YOU IN A CRASH WHAT USED TO MAKE YOUR HEART SING A HIT, SING A SMASH WILL MAKE YOU WANNA HIT, WANNA SMASH EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAD INTO PIECES BUT LOVE BECOMES CLEAR WHEN IN PIECES WHAT YOU COULDN’T SEE AND HEAR DURING PEACE IS WHY A HEART BECOMES EARS IN TWO PIECES
[E] Gravity makes wonders, but it also doesn’t seem to wait. Float like clouds on water, waves across an open plane.
[E] Cause you and me live like. Birds on a power line, hands slipping and our fingers fried, god bless those northern lights and our own devices babe, entropy multiplies, clock’s ticking and i’m mortified, cause in the back of my mind, in the back of my hemisphere,
[G] baby i want you, to cave me in, so maybe i won’t have to admit it, baby i want you, to cave me in, so maybe i won’t ask to forget it
[E&G] i want it i do,i want it i do, i want it i do do do do i want it i do do ooh yea, i, ooh yea i do.
Gallant, Tablo & Eric Nam Talk About Their New Single, “Cave Me In”!
At first glance, Gallant, Tablo and Eric Nam seem like an unlikely combination. After the trio announced that they would be releasing a track together back in November, fans had to wait nearly two full months until they released their teaser. Now fully out with a music video for their collaborative single “Cave Me In,” we caught up with the three musicians to discuss why the release took so long and what the song-making process was like. Listen above for their ’90s-inspired R&B track and read on to see what they had to say in our exclusive interview.
HYPEBEAST: What is your connection to Korea?
Gallant: I’ve always been a K-Pop fan. To witness the birth of a self-guided, self-motivated singer-songwriter movement over the past few years in such a commercialized space was inspiring for me. Every time I’m in Korea it feels like home.
HYPEBEAST: Gallant, Tablo, and Eric seem like an unlikely combination. How did your different musical styles help or get in the way of the music?
Tablo: I think it gives three uniquely voiced perspectives on the topic of “love.” I’ve been blessed in that I’ve already been a part of many unlikely combinations. I’ve worked with acts ranging from K-pop idols to Joey Badass, so it’s second nature to me now to make ‘differences’ work for the song and not against it. And differences are always good, despite what some people will have you believe.
Eric Nam: The fact that our backgrounds are so diverse, particularly in music, really added to the exciting nature of our project. We knew that there would be a challenge in putting together a song that is cohesive and allows each artist to showcase his style, but I think that also allowed us to think outside of the general conventions of — at least for me — how music is created.
HYPEBEAST: “Cave Me In” took a while to actually release. What was the song making process like?
G: It was fragmented, but we were all in constant communication as it was coming together. Ultimately, I think the song ended up being worked on from four or five different cities around the world.
T: The process may have taken a while, with many back and forths, but the songwriting journey was all love. Gallant came to my Seoul studio once and had soju, Korean food and the amazing Korean soda Milkis… which explains it all.
E: It took a while because all three of us are incredibly busy and traveling and all over the place with our schedules. So going back and forth between different continents and cities was a little complicated, but our team really helped facilitate great communication. We got our track from Lophile, a producer based in the States, Gallant put a rough sketch of a melody on the track, and then we went back and forth piecing it together and Tablo spent a lot of time arranging the song.
HYPEBEAST: Whose idea was the subject of the song?
T: Gallant did a melody sketch and on the hook he had the phrase “Cave Me In.” I vibed off that and put down my verse right away. Because that’s what love does. It caves you in, sometimes in a beautiful way and sometimes in a beautifully twisted way.
HYPEBEAST: How did you feel when you heard Quincy Jones and Timbaland’s feedback of the song?
E: It was crazy. I played it for both of them in person, and they both really loved it and got really excited about the song. To have such great feedback from amazing and legendary musicians reaffirmed that we had something special. Then Quincy went out of his way to post about it on his socials and we were thankful and blown away by that.
HYPEBEAST: How did your upbringing shape your views and approach to music, if at all?
G: I grew up in a really open-minded suburb with a diverse population. It felt very connected with the world, which definitely influenced my tastes in music over the years.
T: I was a student of literature my entire life, so I value the words of a song most of all. Music is the greatest tool of communication but sometimes so little is being communicated.
E: Growing up in the suburbs of Atlanta, music always seemed out of reach, particularly for an Asian or Asian American. We never had Asians on TV or in music and doing cool things in entertainment. For me, I never thought that I would really have a career in music. I think I’m still pretty new to the art of making music and I’m still in the very early stages of figuring this world and process out. Hopefully I can keep making good music that people dig.
HYPEBEAST: What other artists do you like or catch your attention? Who else would you like to work with?
E: A few people I’d like to work with: Snakehips, Cashmere Cat, DJ Snake, Clean Bandit, to name a few.
T: Donald Glover. And I’d like to be in a Tarantino film. If that happens I’m done.
HYPEBEAST: What is something you haven’t yet been able to accomplish?
T: Being in a Tarantino film.
E: I’m hoping to have an English EP out in the near future and promote in the States and follow up with an international tour. I’ve done a lot of one-offs and singles, but to have one solid piece of work that is all mine, that’s the goal for now.
HYPEBEAST: What are your promotional plans for “Cave Me In”?
T: I truly believe that the song will promote itself.
E: Nothing really planned. We just hope listeners love it and spread it.
HYPEBEAST: Lastly, what would you like to say to HYPEBEAST readers?
G: Thanks for showing so much support. Hope you like what Tablo, Eric, and I put together.
T: Bless you all. I pray that each and every single one of you become healthy and wealthy, and that you get those pair of shoes you’ve always been lusting for. Thank you!
E: Thanks HYPEBEAST always for covering the cool stuff. Hope you guys love “Cave Me In” and keep an ear out for more stuff coming from the three of us in the future.
Hollywood actress Chloe Moretz is set to appear in the Korean mock-marriage reality TV show We Got Married, starring opposite Korean American singer Eric Nam.
We Got Married is an enormously popular show that pairs up celebrities and allows them to experience the many charms and quirks of married life. Since its launch in 2008, We Got Married has expanded and created spinoffs, in which Hallyu stars are paired up with celebrities from other Asian countries. According to the Korea Herald, Moretz is the first Caucasian celebrity to participate in the show.
My friend and I were able to upgrade to VIP, so we are selling two GA tickets to the (sold out!!) Eric Nam show for 2/26/22 at The Fillmore in MD! They’re listed for sale on Ticketmaster (they are currently the only ones up for resale for that show lol), or feel free to msg me for a link!!
The smile on Eric’s face dropped as soon as you opened the door, furrowing his brows as you stood back and invited him into your home. You could feel his eyes on you as you shyly looked down to the floor, biting down on your bottom lip.
“Are you alright?” Eric asked you, stopping right in front of you, placing his hand against your waist. “I love you, but you look as if you haven’t slept for days,” he nervously told you.
Your head shook as you tried your best to sniffle, making as little noise as possible. “It’s just been a busy few days at work,” you explained to him, pushing against his back to encourage him to walk through into your living room.
“I was beginning to wonder why you were avoiding me,” Eric told you as he sunk down into the sofa, still staring across at you. “Work must really be taking it out of you to look like this. Are you sure that work is the only reason why you’ve been ignoring me?”
Your head nodded, clearing your throat as another tickle in it began to annoy you. “Nothing for you to worry about,” you assured Eric, trying your best to force a smile onto your face.
“Why don’t I make you a hot drink to try and make you feel a little bit better?” He offered, standing up almost as quickly as he sat down, “a nice hot chocolate might hit the spot.”
“You don’t have to,” you told him, trying your best to reach out to take his hand from your seat on the sofa, only able to brush your fingertips against his arm. “Why don’t you sit for a while, tell me how things have been going with you?”
“I can do that with a coffee.”
“But what if you forget something by then?”
“What are you on about?” Eric scoffed, stopping in the doorway to keep looking across at you. He expected your voice to be a little under the weather, but even this felt a little too suspicious for him not to worry about.
Your smile began to look nervy as Eric stared back to you. “I’m just saying, you’ve probably got a lot to tell me, I don’t want you to forget about any details,” you spoke, rambling to find anything to bring him back into the room.
“You talk some nonsense when you’re stressed,” Eric teased, going over the way that you like your hot chocolate with you before leaving the living room, leaving you panicked too as you sunk down in your seat.
He knew where everything was in your home as Eric began to boil the kettle, noticing an unopened box of coffee. He peeled open the wrapper, walking across to where your bin was, pushing down on the pedal to open the lid. As he did, his eyes landed on a huge pile of tissues in the top of your bin, tablet boxes messed in with them too.
“I knew it,” he whispered, quickly realising what was really wrong with you. Although work was busy, you were full of cold too, deciding to take care of yourself.
Before returning to the living room with your drinks, Eric opened up your medicine cupboard too. Inside were several packets of throat sweets, cough medicine, and enough pain relief to last you for several weeks too.
“Are you sure that it’s just work that’s bothering you?” Eric asked you as soon as he returned to the room, watching you scramble to place something in your pocket.
“Yeah, of course,” you nervously told him, watching as he placed the mug of hot chocolate just beside you, sitting back where he was too with his coffee. “You know what it’s like when there’s a mountain of work that needs completing.”
A hum came from Eric as he continued to study you, beginning to pick up on so much more. Your nose was dry where you had blown it so much, skin red from how irritable it had become, not to mention the bulge in your pocket where you had you tissues kept.
“So, if I ask you whether you’ve had a cold, you’ll tell me that you haven’t?” Eric pushed, watching on as your expression dropped straight away.
“I was going to mention it,” you frowned, rolling your eyes as you realised that Eric was onto you, figuring out the real reason as to why you had told him not to come round.
The last thing that you wanted for Eric to see was you unwell. You had declined and declined until he didn’t stand for it any longer, inviting himself round, unaware as to what the real reason as to why you had been avoiding him was.
A sigh came from Eric as he moved across the room to sit beside you, resting his hand against the top of your leg to bring you into him.
He wasn’t mad, he was disappointed, mainly that he hadn’t been there to look after you. It hurt him to imagine you being ill by yourself, suffering without anyone there to help you when you needed them, to be able to take some of the pain away for you.
“I’m sorry,” you told him, but Eric’s head quickly shook back across at you.
He got it, your relationship was still only a few months old, you didn’t want him to see you any other way than perfect just yet. But perfect wasn’t what Eric wanted, he just wanted you, whether you were on top of the world or feeling under the weather.
“I wish you would have told me,” Eric whispered down to you, “I could have come and looked after you. I could have made all of your favourite foods, watched all of your favourite programmes with you to try and cheer you up.”
“I thought that I’d be alright within a day or two,” you admitted in reply to him. “I know how busy you are too, I didn’t want to burden you by making you feel as if you had to come and look after me when you’ve got enough on your plate.”
“I could have made time for you,” Eric weakly smiled, “in fact, I would have made time for you. Nobody should be unwell on their own, it must’ve been horrible for you.”
“There were plenty of times when I wanted to give you a call.”
You had lost count of how many times you had reached for your phone, only to stop yourself. Each time you reminded yourself of how busy Eric was, feeling that you’d just be in the way if you asked him to come over.
“I know next time not to feel unwell all by myself, that I can text you and that you won’t be mad at me for asking you over.”
“I’ll never be mad at you for asking me over, even if it is because you feel unwell,” Eric assured you, squeezing you gently too. “Seeing as I’m here now, is there anything that I can do for you? Anything that you want or need that you’ve not been able to get whilst you’ve been stuck here feeling unwell?”
“Right now, I think I just need a cuddle,” you nervously smiled up at him, “I think I’ve been feeling a little bit sorry for myself being ill and alone this past week.”
“I can definitely do that,” he confidently spoke, pulling you even further into him, “I’m here to take care of you now.”
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