Virg x LRC Interview: Virg is a real person.
[Excerpt from interview]
Mer:
In the process of making Lady Frankie, I felt that by writing my experiences, I was able to process and move on. Do you connect to that? Sometimes I feel like when I'm making art, it’s like an alchemizing process. Has something to do with grief.
Virg:
I think that every piece of music that I've made has taught me a lot about myself and the people around me.
Music has always been like a very therapeutic process for me. And there's been so many times that I've written songs that have turned into something else over the years. Like I will have vomited out something I don't really understand. And then years later, I realized, "Oh, that's what that was about." Or even in some ways in a manifestation way, like I'll write about something and then it will happen.
But yeah, I do agree that it is very much intertwined with grief and managing all the things that are going on.
Mer:
I think I pinpointed grief because it's one of the transformative emotions. I think that's what I was getting at. Do you feel like with every album, you get to either become a new person or later rest a new person?
Virg:
Yeah, definitely. I think because for me, albums take so long that I'm not the same person I was when I started it, like two years ago or three years ago. But yeah, definitely. I don't think a part of me dies.
I do feel like a part of me is like born through it.
Mer:
Like the Phoenix. We rise through the ashes.
Virg:
Exactly.