Eric Nam Quotes:
A lot of my peers, be seniors or juniors, they’ll text me or they’ll call me and they’ll say, ‘Thank you for doing the music that you do because it pushes the genre forward in different ways.’ It’s a very rewarding thing to hear.
Eric Nam
Asian-Americans are fighting for space and fighting for visibility and for acceptance.
Eric Nam
Even if you look at ‘American Idol,’ or ‘X-Factor,’ or ‘The Voice’ or anything, it was always difficult to see an Asian or an Asian-American make it to a certain point.
Eric Nam
Even within K-pop, there should be more representation. It’s not just groups, and it’s not just incredibly produced, highly choreographed pieces. There are vocalists, there’s R&B, there’s hip-hop, there are other types of people and voices. There’s space for all of that to be shared and to be appreciated.
Eric Nam
From a strictly business perspective, it’s like, ‘Even if you leave Eric alone, he’ll do stuff. He puts his own album together, he gets his own gigs, he does everything on TV. Let him be, he’s fine.’
Eric Nam
I don’t know why I feel the need to try and do everything. But I kind of have this mentality that you live once, and I have a lot of things that I want to do and there’s a lot of things that I want to try. So I have to at least give it a shot before I don’t try at all or like, give up on things.
Eric Nam
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I feel like I’ve always been drawn to a very diverse range of music and I’ve always enjoyed experimenting, so I’m not quite sure where exactly my music will go.
Eric Nam
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I feel like people have stereotypes and notions about Latin America that aren’t necessarily accurate or aren’t particularly positive. For me, Latin America is a place that I personally really love and enjoy visiting and going to, and I wanted to be able to show it in a light that was very different to an Asian, Korean viewer.
Eric Nam
I had always wanted to pursue music. It was always a dream, but it was always a dream in the sense of, when you’re young, ‘I want to be president’ or ‘I want to be an astronaut and fly to Mars.’ That’s what it was to me.
Eric Nam
I learned Spanish as my second language from middle school through high school. I grew up volunteering at homeless shelters and tutoring kids of Latin immigrants in Atlanta, who didn’t speak any English. That prepared me for when I traveled.
Eric Nam
I love BTS, they’re my friends.
Eric Nam
I think Korea is so focused on just the charts, and what’s going to chart and what’s not, and I’m sure it’s like that way in the States as well, to a certain degree. But I enjoy working in the States a little bit more. Because it’s more about making music that is the right sound and the right fit to me, not so much just chasing the charts.
Eric Nam
I think one thing I wish would be a little different, and it’ll take time, is yes BLACKPINK, BTS, these teams are taking over the world and they’re everywhere, but I think at a certain point we need to really push for other artists as well, and really help bring them up further, for this to be a sustainable industry, a sustainable genre.
Eric Nam
I think representation is something that’s absolutely needed. I felt like with K-pop being so hot, we could leverage that to potentially do something bigger with music in the States that people could latch onto.
Eric Nam
I think there are probably ghosts in the world. I have not seen one but I feel like I felt the presence of one. In Korea there’s been a superstition that ghosts love music, so they’re always in a studio or a dance-training place.
Eric Nam
I think up until the ‘Honestly’ album it was very much label-company lead, of ‘this is a sound that we need, this is what you need to do. You need to do ballads, you need to do a million different types of love songs,’ and I hate ballads and I hate love songs.
Eric Nam
I thought it would be so cool to be a musician, but I always thought it was impossible, because I would never be accepted in mainstream media. The fact that I’m able to tour North America and around the world is an incredible blessing, and I am thankful every time I do it.
Eric Nam
I try to be honest with myself.
Eric Nam
I was born and raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, which as you can imagine, was not the most diverse place to grow up in as a Korean American.
Eric Nam
I was criticized a lot when I was singing in Korean. The producers and people from my agency would point out my accent and tones, and would tell me I sound too American to fit the local market.
Eric Nam
I was part of the Atlanta Boy Choir probably like fourth and fifth grade. I personally didn’t enjoy the type of music that we were doing. I was more into like whatever was on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.
Eric Nam
I would be criticized, like, ‘You don’t talk Korean enough. You sound very American. You sound very white in your music.’ And I’m like, ‘Whoa.’
Eric Nam
I’m active on social media because that’s such a big reason why K-pop and Korean music performs the way it does.
Eric Nam
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