Aside from having had Cherry Glazerr songs featured in film soundtracks, Creevy’s acted on Transparent and modeled for the likes of Saint Laurent—but her idea of success is simply getting to make music and go on tour. Something she’s doing a lot of these days.
During a brief stop in New York, the singer sat down with office to talk Stuffed & Ready and growing up.
How did you realize you were into making music?
When I was 14 I started going and seeing a lot of bands around LA. I was really into No Age and Battles and angular rock bands. I also watched a lot of videos of bands playing on YouTube. A lot of my earliest experiences with rock music came from the internet. I started making Cherry Glazerr songs when I was 15 and I started recording my own music with help from my friend Paige who is in this band called Tashaki Miyaki. Then Joel Jerome who is an LA producer/songwriter, he helped me record my first batch of recordings when I was 15. I always played guitar and was writing a lot of songs. So, it came really naturally.
I’m interested to hear your perspective about the internet, because in your case it was something that helped you get into your passion with music. But what do you think of it as a landscape?
It’s a reflection of the world. There’s a lot of great things on the internet and a lot of corruption as well. I had been musical ever since I was like, four years old, so it was something that facilitated what I was already doing. It wasn’t a place where I discovered who I was at all. I’m of the school that thinks that the world is not a bad place and for the most part, our inclination is to love one another and that we want peace and harmony—that the world isn’t bad, that it’s awesome and beautiful. And I think when you get stuck in an internet K-hole, that idea can be tarnished. And that’s sad to me because that’s not reality. I feel like a lot of the crap on the internet is a projection of our fears just accumulated into one and we’re forced to look at it. And that sucks. But there’s so much cool stuff on the internet too—I’ve met a lot of cool people from the internet.
I think we have such a complicated relationship with it and I think the fact that everyone talks about how social media makes them feel bad is in and of itself an act of radical pushback. Because if we’re all talking about how shitty it makes us feel, then there’s a consensus that maybe we should do something about this thing that makes us feel horrible about ourselves all the time. I don’t think we’ve figured out how to navigate that yet, but I think we’re at a good starting point.
It is something we all collectively complain about, but then a lot of us are still really addicted to it. And I think the way it meshes with creative careers—a lot of people feel like they have to have an Instagram because it’s how you promote yourself.
I can definitely relate to that. I use Instagram a lot. And if my Instagram account got deleted I would probably go into a state of panic. I’d feel like a part of my identity had been stripped away. And that’s what’s so corrupt about it. I’m not a brand, I’m just a person. But I think Facebook and Instagram want us to believe that we are a brand, and I think that’s really harmful. But I think most of us have an awareness of that and know that that’s shitty, and that’s, to me, a good starting point. It's complicated.
