Soul'd Out

STATUS Magazine June 2011

Note: This is a short feature I wrote and was published in STATUS Magazine's June 2011 issue. I just felt like this deserves a rightful place in my blog. I once told myself, as a means of pep talk, that someday, my name will be out there where everyone can see. I achieved that somehow, and this is just the beginning, I tells ya.
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"Audiophiliac" isn't even enough to describe TIMOTHY BLOOM. It has come to a point when he'd steal his parents' keys to the car just so he can surf through radio stations.

In his totally NSFW music video for "Til the End of Time," an ironically prayer-like single, Timothy Bloom is locked in full embrace with Amber Rose, deadringer V. Bozeman, standing/singing/making out butt-naked for four fill minutes on a spinning turntable. It naturally got 300,000+ HD views in a matter of weeks, and they had to release a tamer cut, but it's just as thrilling to watch. The reason, one that's not skind deep, is that it's "just [about] being reborn," Bloom shares.

As seen in STATUS Magazine's June 2011 issue
with Shannyn Sossamon and  P.Rod on double covers

In writing the song, he admits to getting depressed, wanting "to take all the negative energy and make it positive." This attitude, together with music, found a way to permanently fuse itself with his life early on because his dad was a pastor. Being surrounded by all sounds and rhythms may have been overwhelming for him, but he taught himself music; it was divine intervention as he felt his way though piano keys and created beats with drumsticks.

It's not a bad thing to be measured up to the likes of Ne-Yo and Usher; his own infusion "of all influences from [his] parents' music to country, to folk, to R&B" sets him apart. With the success of his recent EP, The Budding Rose, and with his first album, In Full Bloom, set to release this year, what's next for this music lover? Bloom answers, "I'm just working on living."

myspace.com/timothybloom
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I was a nervous wreck when I was informed that I'd be interviewing an international music artist as my first article--via phone. One fact about me is that I don't speak English very well. I easily get tongue-tied during poetry recitals, reading lines for a play, reports... So the idea of talking to a person wherein speaking English is like second skin to him, I panicked. Not to mention that the interview was scheduled 5 in-the-friggin'-morning Filipino time, that wasn't really good news to me who's not a morning person at all. Ask my mom.

Click through to read more of my conversation with this up-and-coming music artist at STATUS Magazine's website under their Features section, but please don't hesitate and read through the blog too.

UPDATE: Here's Timothy Bloom's music video for "Til the End of Time," just so you get the feel of it: 

http://bit.ly/fSo7NV