Natalia M. King joins Hunter Kelly for an interview on Proud Radio to discuss living in Europe, her experience with sexuality and fluidity, and experimenting with genres throughout her career. Listen to the interview with Natalia M. King in-full anytime on-demand here.
Natalia on “Woman Mind of My Own”
Hunter Kelly: I love this song because it just seems like a description of yourself of like, “Yes, I’m going to do what I want.”
Natalia: Completely. Exactly, and exactly, a woman mind, that’s my own way, it’s my own spirit, it’s the way I want to see the world, whether you like it or not. Those who love me, follow, and those who don’t, well, move on.
Natalia on playing with the idea of fluidity in “Aka Chosen”
Hunter Kelly: I would guess that is your story of being younger, dating men, and then evolving into your queerness.
Natalia: It’s exact, it’s a true story. Let’s do it that way. As the words say, “Started with a he, then it was a she.” But that we understand that life is too short to just put yourself in just any one category. I love the term. I don’t know if it’s used in the States, but here in Europe, they use the term fluid. I like thinking that sexuality is fluid until we define it for ourselves. And that song plays with that idea, which is my story.
Natalia on mixing genres in her album
I think what I love about this album is that I kind of took all the sounds and all the genres of my past and tried to combine it with a Blues foundation and going into Americana and going into Soul, taking everything that I was before this musically and just trying to put it in. It’s nice that you hear it. It’s even nice that you give reference to ‘Soulblazz,’ because a lot of that ‘Soulblazz’ feel is also in “Woman Mind of My Own.”
