Poh Ling Yeow

And so, yeah, music and films were just somewhere I just loved the escapism.

So for me that's what the songs were kind of all about.

But I also have like a lot of memories when I should have been in bed.

But the way our modular lounge sat was next to the hallway so I could scoot unseen.

And while my dad watched all these movies, I remember watching like American Werewolf of London.

All these like totally inappropriate movies from behind the couch and getting the full gamut from a very young age, you know, of emotions and things I wasn't supposed to really understand.

I was kind of like absorbing them at a really young age.

And the music from this era takes me back to all of that.

I don't know how to explain it.

I'm having a bit of a moment now just thinking about how unsupervised I was as a child.

I wasn't really babysat per se, and I didn't really have that much adult company.

So I used my hands a lot.

I was very into sewing and all these quite dexterous things that little kids weren't really usually doing.

It's always been a place of solace for me to create and to be using my hands because I recognised at a really young age, like even when I was probably really young, like maybe six or seven, I recognised that when I was in that state, which I recognise now as flow state, I found...

myself not feeling myself in a way.

Like I was just, I didn't feel self-conscious.

I had purpose and I belonged to me.

There was just sort of like I was answerable to no one in that space.

It was just all about me creating something pleasing to myself.

Creativity gave you agency.