ON OUR RADAR: CHLOE GUDGIN
With a new single on the horizon, Chloe Gudgin is On Our Radar today!
Introduce yourself!
Hi! I’m Chloe Gudgin and I’m a 21 year old independent musician from the North East of England. I brought out my first single last year ‘Christmases & Game Nights’ which ended up getting played on Gorgeous FM and I am currently studying Journalism at the University of Sunderland.
How would you describe your music to a potential listener?
I would say my style of music is a mixture between Dodie, Maisie Peters and Billie Elish. I know such difference musicians but my music is for sure between all of them.
Since being an artist, do you feel it has grown in the direction you hoped for, or has there been any setbacks?
I would say with myself being just a musician and not being in a band, it can be quite lonely and isolating as the majority of the time it is just you doing it all and sometimes you do have to motivate yourself to get everything done especially in a pandemic. It can be hard but when it is done it is so rewarding.
Which tracks are you most proud of to date and why?
My single ‘Christmases & Game Nights’. That song is really personal to me and I wrote it after the event happened which made the song and the lyrics just stand out to me and I feel like they are really relatable to others with how the one lyric in the chorus is “I have to learn to like myself alone” and the past year with us all being alone, we all had to do that.
Where do you feel your music fits in in an ever changing and demanding music scene?
I find that if I’m honest I don’t really fit in and I’m accepting that. I’m accepting that I will never fit in and that’s fine. I thought I had to for ages and I tried to mask it all and be like the other female musicians but it’s just not me, so I don’t fit in at all.
Do you have any tips for keeping your mental health in check throughout this period of time?
Mental Health is so tricky. For me my mental health goes up and down like a yoyo, but the little steps each day which help my mental health is writing a to-do list as for me the to-do list shows me how much action I am taking in my careers/university/personal life etc it all shows me what I am doing and I have found that to help me a lot. I would say comparison can be the biggest time waster in the music industry as for me I tend to compare myself with musicians who are further than me career wise and it just doesn’t make sense. We are both enjoying the journey and that’s that. Everything happens at the right time as cheesy as that is.
What issues are important to you? How do you use your music and platform to communicate these?
I would say the issues that are really important to me is being a female in the music industry and mental health. I started recognising how those who identify as female are treated so unequally than males, with how the majority of males get signed straight away without a single even being out yet females don’t get signed by a record label. It’s all mad.
What are your top 3 albums at the moment?
I can’t really think of three albums off my head. I would say the three songs at the moment which I am loving is:
Perfect by Anne Marie
Love me or Leave me by Little Mix
What a Time by Julia Michaels and Niall Horan
What’s one song you wish you could have written?
‘Take Care of Yourself’ by Maise Peters. The whole meaning of that song is all about wellbeing and looking after yourself and the lyrics in that song instantly just scream out. That is a song I wish I could have written.
If you could tour with anyone, who would it be?
Oooo Taylor Swift, Maisie Peters or Dodie!
What should your fans be expecting from you in the near future?
Well, I may or may not have a festival booked to perform at and maybe a second single coming soon? I mean, but who knows?
Stream Chloe Gudgin’s latest music below.