True Patriot Love - ＂A Journey Told Through Songs＂ - with Toronto Artist Falc1

00:00:00.000 hey everyone welcome back to tpl don't forget you can follow us on every major platform streaming

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00:00:17.040 and i think we often forget how poppin the canadian music scene is so i have brought to you

00:00:24.320 a lovely canadian local artist falc one welcome to the show thank you so much for having me it

00:00:29.920 is so great to have you here okay let's do a little bit of an intro because i mean i was telling you

00:00:34.800 this before you are you i don't think you realize how famous you are and how many people actually

00:00:38.560 listen to your music but tell us a little bit about yourself yeah like you said my name is

00:00:42.400 falc one i'm an artist right here in toronto um and i've been making music for my whole life but

00:00:49.040 started recording in like 2017 2018 uh with it like a duo we were called the 108 and then kind

00:00:56.160 of did my own thing starting 2020 and i've been releasing music ever since so interesting that

00:01:01.360 you say 2020 that was when the coveted pandemic hit so what was it like trying to sustain a music

00:01:07.120 career through that yeah it was um it was a bit different because it was you know growing up you

00:01:12.240 hear about like people getting discovered through shows and you know they're going out and through

00:01:17.040 covet it was just like strictly social media and just promoting yourself on social media and that's

00:01:22.800 when i was like okay tiktok is this giant it's this big thing that everyone's obsessed with

00:01:29.120 i need to get on there i need to start promoting myself on tiktok so that's kind of what i did

00:01:33.600 and then it wasn't until i started going on tiktok live which um was probably around 2021 where i

00:01:40.960 actually started developing like a following and people who just across the world were enjoying my

00:01:46.320 my music so uh yeah i would say it was definitely like a switch of real life to you gotta just go

00:01:53.040 full-on social media at that point yeah and i mean but social media can be a scary place too

00:01:58.000 right there's there's a lot that comes with it so how was it like comparing 2021 to now

00:02:04.740 navigating tiktok yeah it's it's funny because like different algorithms change and you have to

00:02:10.360 try to like you know at 2021 2020 it was like thirst trappy content it was this like yeah the

00:02:17.900 dance is very basic uh stuff where now it's a little bit more of like personal it's a little

00:02:23.380 bit it's a little bit more creative if that makes sense like there's there's more of like a creative

00:02:28.540 side to i think tiktok now but the difference i think of the algorithm is that so many people

00:02:34.900 pick up on it right so your views could be sky high one day and they could drop the next day so

00:02:39.600 it's it's a bit of a balance uh and just kind of you really have to the the downside is you really

00:02:45.960 have to be on your phone you really have to be like analyzing these things and and seeing where

00:02:50.640 trends are going and how and for somebody who's you know makes music and he's not like a not trying

00:02:57.160 to be like an input you almost have to be like an influencer type of person uh nowadays so it's it's

00:03:03.300 it has its moments right where you you go kind of up and down with that but um yeah i've seen the

00:03:09.160 shift of of creativity for sure so we'll get into more of the social media stuff in a minute because

00:03:15.000 it's a lot it's a lot to unpack especially as an independent artist but tell me about your genre

00:03:19.840 your style and you kind of evolved a little bit I feel over the last few years yeah it's um it's

00:03:26.080 I always say like I'm I like to be genre-less because for me it's like whatever inspires me

00:03:31.240 that's that's kind of where I'm going I don't want to be kind of put in a box or like trapped

00:03:35.980 in a box creatively um but like a lot of people know me from rapping and freestyling but you know

00:03:43.300 I love to sing singing is probably like my number one passion so uh I'll do you know soft ballads

00:03:49.120 I'll do you know again rap songs dance music upbeat songs so whatever's kind of in that

00:03:56.700 the inspiration for that day that's kind of where I'll make my music and recently um just with

00:04:04.860 things in my life you know I suffered like some loss in my family some mental health issues and

00:04:09.840 so I think my music where I always I want to be inspired by like true events because I feel like

00:04:15.640 that's where you get your most expressive content um so I think just with how my life kind of went

00:04:22.260 it gradually shifted my perspective from like oh I'm gonna do love songs because you know I'm

00:04:27.940 feeling like all lovey-dovey and this and to now it's um kind of hitting some darker and maybe like

00:04:32.800 some some harder points right um so i feel like my my music's grown just with life like how our

00:04:41.040 life grows and our life adapts i think my music's kind of uh reflected that i think life is

00:04:46.300 definitely like a main factor in the inspiration for music and especially in your 20s you know it

00:04:51.980 is such it's it's a decade of evolving you're not the same that you were at 21 22 23 like it all

00:04:58.180 changes so much and i'm sure you've gone through a lot of that change in your life and you're kind

00:05:02.660 of looking back on now you're probably reflecting on it a lot yeah like i'm thinking about like my

00:05:07.480 early 20s where like i'm writing music about partying and you know just going out and having

00:05:11.460 a good time with your friends and trying to live in the moment and then now it's kind of like

00:05:15.360 this whole different perspective of you're almost thinking about your future and you know

00:05:21.880 the struggles of trying to make a name for yourself in your 20s um that's kind of where

00:05:30.020 my mind is gone and where my lyrics have kind of changed so drastically where it's like

00:05:36.100 yeah my early 20s was you know it was about having fun it was it was you know that's just

00:05:40.180 what you do when you're when you're that age and then I think now um like like we've been talking

00:05:47.100 about just your perspective changes on life and you also face different things in your life like

00:05:54.140 I remember I've been so I've been in a relationship since I was 16 so I was writing breakup songs in

00:05:59.500 early 20s but i was like i know this is something that is like impacts people but it's not directly

00:06:06.460 impacting me so i would look at like friends who have gone through breakups and look at them and

00:06:10.700 get inspiration there and it was almost like i was pulling for inspiration at that point where now

00:06:15.420 it's like life is this crazy thing it's like you don't have to pull from anybody else you got it

00:06:20.940 right from within right so i i think it's safe to say the last year has been wild for everyone in

00:06:26.140 some way shape or form and okay we'll we'll come back to that as well because i think the mental

00:06:30.700 health thing ties in with that a lot but tell me about being an independent canadian artist and

00:06:35.420 what it's like to try and make a name for yourself like you mentioned yeah it's it's definitely fun

00:06:40.380 because you know you're doing what you love it's your passion it's something that um i've always

00:06:46.220 wanted to do but it's it's very difficult because nobody tells you like you got to do everything

00:06:51.820 right uh like for somebody like myself who's totally independent i'm my videographer i'm

00:06:57.980 my social media manager i'm my you know uh marketer i'm i'm doing all these different

00:07:03.820 like hats where it's not something that i specialize in right i specialize in like

00:07:07.900 writing music and performing and all that fun stuff but it's if you want to make your name

00:07:13.180 in that regard you have to kind of master these other skills or you know get enough money where

00:07:18.140 you could hire people to do all those things but for me right now it's it's you know i have to wear

00:07:23.020 those hats so it's just kind of like a day in and day out of like okay you know studying cameras

00:07:28.700 studying how to edit you know uh like the amount of cap cut tutorials that i've watched of how to

00:07:34.380 edit like videos to try to make them pop and color grading and all this stuff that's lighting lighting

00:07:39.980 yes i've got i've got the portable light in my purse if you ever need it i'll tell you that

00:07:43.340 you're a real one no but it's true like i've had to buy like portable lighting and all this stuff

00:07:48.540 that you know four years ago i i didn't know one thing about and i didn't think i would ever need

00:07:53.740 to know anything about so i think that's the the tough part but i will say that it's very important

00:08:00.140 to like put things into perspective and like count your wins because when you're an independent

00:08:06.380 artist you're gonna get so many notes like i have very thick skin like somebody could be like just

00:08:10.780 look at me like hey i hate your music yeah you suck right and like it doesn't phase me because 0.86

00:08:16.860 i've developed such like thick skin over the years and i it's taken a while but i've gone 0.96

00:08:24.860 to like accept my small wins where it's like okay i'm not where i kind of want to be let's say

00:08:30.780 quote unquote yet but think about yourself five years ago if you had you know people listening

00:08:35.900 to your music in europe and different continents and you have to if you don't do that and you don't

00:08:40.620 say like wow no i'm actually doing something great you'll go crazy you'll go crazy because

00:08:45.900 if you're just waiting on like that big yes to come and you're just like you're almost

00:08:53.340 you're kind of just waiting for approval almost like constantly so you you really have to like

00:08:59.100 take a step back and just be proud of yourself and be proud of the journey that you've taken

00:09:04.940 that's amazing advice because and i think that also comes back to the social media thing because

00:09:08.860 sometimes the numbers you see can be disheartening the amount of viewers or like sometimes a video

00:09:13.420 that you didn't think would pop off pops off and sometimes you maybe don't get as many like views

00:09:19.980 on your lives or people joining your lives but speaking of which your lives have reached people

00:09:25.580 all over the world like you're international now yeah so how does that feel oh it's amazing it's

00:09:31.180 it's it's really the coolest thing like when you get people who like are coming in like hey watching

00:09:35.660 you from london tonight watching you from sydney australia and like just all these different places

00:09:40.620 in the world it's like wow this is what i used to like dream of this is this is everything that

00:09:46.300 those steps those those editing tutorials like this is this is why i did that just to get my

00:09:51.580 music heard by all these people and uh yeah it's it's something that you can't really explain and

00:09:58.300 i think just the next step would be like to actually not have a screen in front and it's

00:10:03.900 like a face-to-face interaction like at a show or something like that that's kind of where my next

00:10:08.380 step and yeah i want to go but uh yeah it's like it's the coolest thing like you can't you can't

00:10:14.540 really put it into words how how awesome it is to to hear and people like know like hey i just

00:10:20.220 listened to this song that you just dropped and it's like and i'm like oh where are you from and

00:10:23.500 it'll be like oh i'm from uh uh nairobi kenya and you're like wow like that's amazing yeah it's just

00:10:29.660 wild and i have to ask backtrack a little bit how how do you think you developed that thicker skin

00:10:35.340 because it's hard as much as we want to say like i have a thick skin nothing bothers me

00:10:39.580 you know there are things that bother us yeah i think

00:10:45.580 i think if you don't develop it you fail so i feel like you almost have no choice as an

00:10:50.300 independent artist like or just an artist in general or anybody doing something creative or

00:10:54.300 you know in a space and in life that uh if you don't have tough skin i feel like you'll fail

00:10:59.020 because it's so it's got to be like zero zero zero point zero zero percent of somebody giving

00:11:04.780 you a yes on your first attempt you're going to deal with no's you're going to deal with people

00:11:08.500 who just simply aren't a fan of what you do and that's fine because there are so many people who

00:11:13.260 will be a fan of what you do and you kind of have to realize that that with every no it's closer to

00:11:18.200 a yes as cliche as that sounds it really it really is it i was on my live stream for six months

00:11:26.500 straight and i didn't get nobody joining the lives didn't get anybody but i just kept going and like

00:11:32.020 people being like why are you doing this uh for four people like yeah you're really gonna make it

00:11:36.500 with four people and you're like you know like the trolls in the comments yeah literally like 0.92

00:11:41.300 like what a loser he's rapping to four people like get a job yeah you're sitting at home behind your 0.88

00:11:47.540 phone just saying staring at your screen anyway so like you you you get all those and it was probably 0.98

00:11:55.140 like the seventh month where it was like oh now i have 30 people now i have 100 people and then

00:12:00.660 like from 100 it went to like a thousand and then 2 000 and then i had like one of the top live

00:12:06.340 streams in canada and then see this is the the the fun part about being in the music industry is

00:12:12.340 it's not just going to go to 3 000 4 000 then it goes back to 100 and you know you have your ups

00:12:17.620 and downs but it just shows like if you stay with something and you have to be proud of yourself so

00:12:24.100 every time I drop a song, every time I go on TikTok live and I present myself, like even in

00:12:28.980 this podcast, I want to look back at it and be proud of myself and be proud of what I'm creating.

00:12:34.600 And I think as long as you're doing that, you develop thick skin because you develop a lot

00:12:40.140 of confidence in what you're able to do. So when people tell you, no, it's like, okay, it wasn't

00:12:44.400 for them. It'll be for somebody else. Cause I know it's good. I'm proud of what I'm kind of

00:12:47.920 creating um so that's really how it developed and well i love that i love that for you i think that's

00:12:55.080 and that's amazing advice and and like i said social media can be really disheartening looking

00:12:59.700 at those numbers and have you ever considered like bringing a team on to help you with that stuff i

00:13:05.060 mean you've got your dad now your dad who's watching and he's your camera person sometimes

00:13:10.500 he's your social media person sometimes but do you think a team might help you or do you like

00:13:14.980 enjoy doing it on your own i would absolutely love a team i just finding the the right people

00:13:20.420 right now and finding something that works like financially and you know those other costs when

00:13:26.820 you are paying for like you know all the stuff yourself right like even like marketing wise

00:13:32.020 that's on your own budget because again you're you're you're by yourself so i mean if something

00:13:37.220 were to work i'm so open to that so if anybody is looking there's a little ad yeah just plug

00:13:44.420 yourself man go ahead go ahead uh but yeah no i think it would it would help tremendously because

00:13:49.940 you know when you're wearing all those different hats it's tough to kind of like laser focus on

00:13:54.340 one thing you kind of have to do a bunch of things at once and i think just as like humans where if

00:13:58.980 we laser in on one thing it's usually better than trying to do a million things like you can still

00:14:04.420 do it well but you know what i'm saying like if you really put your time and effort into one thing

00:14:08.420 and excelling at one thing i think it's just gonna be better so yeah i would love to be i i definitely

00:14:14.100 am proud of you know learning those tools i think that it's helped me grow for sure but i think now

00:14:19.940 i'm at the stage where it's kind of like i do want to spit that off yeah i just want to make music

00:14:23.940 now that's the thing that's the thing that comes with being an artist there are so many components

00:14:29.060 that come with it it's not just about sitting down and writing a song anymore there's so much

00:14:32.980 more that goes into it you have to market yourself and you mentioned financials you know that's always

00:14:38.260 something that's quite difficult for independent artists you know you might look like glitz and

00:14:42.820 glam and all of that but it doesn't always it's not always that way yeah no it's it's it's tough

00:14:47.700 because you know uh i can't remember what the breakdown is but like for every spotify stream

00:14:51.620 it's like a quarter of a penny right like it's it's very very low so you really have to do numbers

00:14:57.620 on your streams to be able to support yourself financially and that's why uh the tiktok lives 0.97

00:15:03.860 have been great for me because that's where i've kind of um done well for myself and been able to

00:15:09.220 pursue music full-time is because of uh tick tock so i do a lot to tick tock and the social media

00:15:15.220 element beside it because i think now and this is a good point but if you're an artist you have to

00:15:20.260 look at different avenues uh in order to generate income like even you know if you're good at

00:15:25.700 songwriting try to see if you can uh pitch out your your your writing so you can get some money

00:15:31.620 or just anything that kind of keeps the the dream it keeps you afloat uh so i i think that if i would

00:15:38.340 would give any advice to like any artists out there is just like look at different avenues and

00:15:42.860 whether it's social media or just promoting yourself in different ways where it's not just

00:15:47.880 streams where you're trying to make an income because it is so difficult you really do have to

00:15:52.460 get great numbers to provide for yourself and i also think it's very different in canada versus

00:15:58.640 like the u.s because there's no tiktok creator fund for example here in canada so how do you

00:16:03.740 navigate that how do you monetize that in a way yeah it's it's tough like it's uh

00:16:10.860 i always say like in these in the states they just even with content because they get so much

00:16:16.540 more outreach than than we do here so uh it's just easier to go from like point a to point b

00:16:23.180 when you're in the states because it's just such a bigger volume like when i was uh i was in l.a

00:16:28.620 for a couple months and i was streaming down there on live and like my numbers were just so inflated

00:16:33.100 and i was like i was like wow like i can't believe this right but it's they just have a bigger

00:16:38.920 outreach and for us who don't have the creator fund i would recommend like obviously if you grow

00:16:45.640 your contents where you could get brand deals and stuff that's that's incredible but if you're not

00:16:50.140 there yet i would suggest going live because you can make uh money in canada going going live um

00:16:57.920 um it's not easy you do have to stay really consistent and you can't expect to you know be

00:17:03.180 making a ton as soon as you you start off but it is it is an avenue that people can take and if you

00:17:08.900 do make creative content and things that you know stick with people and really move people then

00:17:14.860 I think you can do well in Canada on that but it would be nice if you got both yeah and what about

00:17:20.800 getting your music out onto streaming platforms and stuff how does that work so for me um you use

00:17:26.080 like distributors so there's there's a couple that i know like i use uh it's called united masters

00:17:30.100 and um a couple of my friends use uh distro kit like my producer chino uses uh distro kit

00:17:35.920 um and yeah you basically just uh submit your song the cover art um who wrote the song make

00:17:44.360 sure like everything's your own original work and they'll put it on to spotify apple music youtube

00:17:48.940 they do all that stuff for you so it's pretty simple um but yeah you need one of those to uh

00:17:55.640 to get your music out there but i will say if you're using those make sure you pay a little

00:18:03.380 bit more and you become like a premium artist on their platform and you keep all your rights

00:18:07.660 because you do not want to give any especially when you're in your beginning stages you don't

00:18:13.140 want to give away any of your rights so what what happens if that happens who takes those rights

00:18:17.740 they so basically like they'll do like a split so if you're not like a premium artist i don't

00:18:21.840 the exact splits but they will take um any earnings from that song so let's say the song were to go

00:18:28.800 viral they get some of that whether um where you could just pay a little bit more and it's 100

00:18:35.760 yours so it it makes sense just cough up a little bit at the beginning and if you like believe in

00:18:40.800 your music and you believe it has that um virality potential then you know you don't have to give

00:18:46.800 anybody nothing it's your music you know you you want you want everything okay yeah so that's good

00:18:51.840 to know that's really good advice okay so now okay let's dive into the mental health side of things

00:18:56.960 so you for those who aren't familiar with your music i've been listening to you for quite some

00:19:01.200 time but you went from you know upbeat dance stuff and now you're making a little more i don't want

00:19:07.120 to say dark but it's another side of you that i feel like your listeners haven't heard before yeah

00:19:13.440 i i just really wanted to and i debated this for a long time like writing about mental health it

00:19:18.640 was something that was foreign to me because i'd never experienced it like everything in my life

00:19:24.160 was you know just trying to be as positive as i can you know always smile on my face type of guy

00:19:28.960 but um 2025 it was just that roller coaster of social media where it's like okay this view this

00:19:35.520 didn't get the views that i wanted and this song's not here to get in the streams that i wanted but

00:19:38.880 oh no this one did and it was like up and down up and down it's like you just start to get like so

00:19:44.880 in your head and i was getting so in my head and i wasn't acting like myself and um it just like

00:19:52.160 flooded into my work where i was like this is what's going on in my life i need to write about

00:19:56.080 this and i had written the two songs that i had released um and i was like i don't know if i'm

00:20:01.680 gonna release it right it was in my head again right it's like i don't know if i want the world

00:20:05.440 to kind of see that side of me but then i was like what kind of like artist am i if i'm not showing

00:20:11.520 what i'm dealing with in my true self and it also goes back to the point of i had previewed the song

00:20:17.440 on my live um it was like super late and it kind of like died down so sometimes if it like dies down

00:20:23.040 i'll show unreleased music because it's a small bunch and it's like kind of intimate so i show

00:20:27.600 this song and this person's like wow like i've been dealing with a lot of struggles and this

00:20:32.560 like was amazing i really needed this and hearing that it's like how do i not release this now

00:20:38.960 right hearing that it could help somebody else because when you're writing and it's like this

00:20:42.480 is for me this is for me to just get it off my chest but then you realize how many people actually

00:20:47.280 deal with mental health struggle with it uh so i was like if i could just help one person

00:20:52.160 in this regard i need to drop this so i decided to drop those two songs and

00:20:56.000 And like some of the, like, I get emotional just thinking about it because some of the

00:21:01.960 responses I got back were just so beautiful.

00:21:03.840 Like I was in a really dark place.

00:21:05.880 I needed this.

00:21:06.680 And like, as an artist, I think you want your music to, to make people feel something.

00:21:12.560 And the fact that it got people through something, um, yeah, it was just really special to me.

00:21:18.600 And I, I was really proud of that, that EP.

00:21:21.780 Well, you absolutely should be proud of it.

00:21:23.360 It is amazing.

00:21:24.180 And I thank you as a fan too, for putting that out, for showing that side of yourself.

00:21:28.000 Cause it's, it's not easy.

00:21:29.080 And especially I feel as a male, it's not easy.

00:21:32.860 So I think it's really opening that up to people to say, listen, everybody's dealing

00:21:38.080 with something.

00:21:38.740 Doesn't matter if you're male or female, it's okay to talk about your feelings.

00:21:42.260 It's okay to put it all out there if you're struggling.

00:21:44.500 Yeah.

00:21:44.900 A hundred percent.

00:21:45.420 I think, like you said, the male thing, it's, it's, it's that stigma, but it's still like,

00:21:49.360 you know, you want to be this, this macho guy, this, this, you just don't want to be

00:21:54.160 to show that side of you so i think yeah it was important for me to to highlight that and how was

00:21:58.240 it received by like your close friends and your peers yeah like for some of them it it caught

00:22:04.000 some by surprise but to some like of my closer friends who you know i've opened up with uh this

00:22:09.320 past year um it was nice it was nice for us to kind of be open and have those talks like man to

00:22:15.940 man um about these tough subjects you know and as a guy you want like you know in your 20s

00:22:24.100 You want the car, the house, the this, the that, the girls, all this stuff, right?

00:22:28.440 You want that kind of, you have kind of like a bucket list of what you want to check off.

00:22:33.040 And when things don't go in that linear line that we were talking about before, I think

00:22:36.860 a lot of like men have kind of that self-doubt.

00:22:39.300 So I know a bunch of my friends have dealt with mental health and it's, like we said,

00:22:45.160 everyone goes through it.

00:22:46.060 So it was nice to highlight that.

00:22:47.820 And it was nice to just talk to them openly, no BS about it.

00:22:51.440 it was just free talking and um we got to express ourselves and just get it off our chest and do you

00:22:57.040 feel like that's the type of conversation that you would have had with your guy friends like let's say

00:23:00.880 three four years ago i don't think so i don't think we were mature enough at that point uh

00:23:06.640 to kind of have those conversations about mental health uh i think it's something that when you

00:23:12.080 really get put into the real world and like real life scenarios really hit you you mature and you

00:23:19.440 you kind of adapt with that um so yeah three years ago no but i think i think there's a time and a

00:23:25.600 place for everything in life and i think you've got to go through things to kind of mature and

00:23:30.340 realize you know this is the road i want to take and this is the person i want to be and these are

00:23:35.500 kind of the conversations i want to uh have absolutely we're growing up we're growing up

00:23:40.420 we're getting more mature we're realizing how important mental health is and expressing yourself

00:23:45.540 and talking to your peers and realizing that you have people there for you so tell us about these

00:23:50.580 two songs then and what they're about and then maybe compare them to a song like saturday night

00:23:56.640 fever for example yeah sure so um there's two songs so the ep is called stained soul uh and

00:24:02.740 there's two songs on it the first one's called losing my way um and the second one's called

00:24:07.840 beautiful life and losing my way is just about, um, me feeling like I lost the joy that I used

00:24:15.300 to have and a happy go lucky mentality that I, that I, that I want in life. I feel like, you

00:24:21.400 know, we should never take ourselves too seriously and we should always try to, you know, wake up

00:24:25.820 with a smile on our face and just give, give the day our best. I know it's tough, but you know,

00:24:30.000 and I felt like I lost that side of me and I lost that confidence, uh, where I would say I'm

00:24:36.420 a pretty confident person like we were talking about before thick skin like always tried to be

00:24:40.500 as confident as possible and I was starting to have self-doubt in my music which I never

00:24:46.540 had before or performing I never had that before so it was just like losing my way in the sense of

00:24:53.160 kind of losing this confidence and losing this this aspect that I really enjoyed about myself

00:25:00.940 and then beautiful life again is kind of about missing this beautiful life this uh when things

00:25:10.160 were easy when things were smooth when you're in your 20s and your early 20s and you know it's just

00:25:15.200 let's go out this weekend and let's have fun and let's you know there there's not those those

00:25:20.400 later life pressures pressures um and that's kind of what beautiful life is about and i wrote that

00:25:25.720 one when I was in LA and I was kind of just alone by myself and in my own thoughts and you know you

00:25:31.680 start to almost spiral in a sense when you're just by yourself different country different place

00:25:36.320 um and yeah so then I kind of the pre-chorus goes like LA nights I'm crying all alone and I've got

00:25:43.980 no guidance and that I started with the pre-chorus which I never really do but um I kind of built the

00:25:50.040 song from there and yeah so they're both just about kind of missing that that older piece of

00:25:55.080 you yeah and then so compare it to your earlier stuff then and even other things that you put out

00:25:59.200 earlier last year that were a lot more upbeat yeah so like a song like Saturday Fever like I

00:26:03.840 love if I'm I love that song it's just like an upbeat like dance song I love if I'm at a party

00:26:09.680 I'm the guy dancing like I'm I'm always moving like I'm I just I always have fun with that so

00:26:15.380 um that's a side of me that I really wanted to show that uh that upbeat fun side of me which

00:26:22.000 at that point in my life when I was writing that song it was so prevalent like I was you know I was

00:26:28.860 going out I was having fun and it's it's funny because those songs are released like a couple

00:26:33.500 months before and after but when writing them I was just at two different parts in my life

00:26:40.060 uh and that's why I say with my music uh I'm almost genre-less in a sense because my the next

00:26:47.540 release I don't even know what is really going to inspire me so I think I just take what life

00:26:54.500 gives me and kind of just release it as it goes and I think that it's kind of authentic to like

00:27:00.160 a real life experience because you're not always sad and you're not always happy and you don't

00:27:05.320 always want an upbeat song you don't always want a slow song so I like to do whatever I'm feeling

00:27:10.300 in that moment and I think that's why a lot of my fans and people who support me they like that

00:27:15.380 because I kind of get they don't have to switch artists to get both of those sides um but yeah

00:27:21.940 it just it just relates to kind of what I'm going through in that time like I was feeling

00:27:26.720 fun and happy at that moment and I just wanted to dance and I think Saturday Night Fever gives

00:27:31.600 that type of vibe and then yeah with the mental health stuff again just what you're dealing in

00:27:35.880 that yeah that moment and I love that you're I do actually really like the fact that you call

00:27:39.800 yourself a genre list because like I can find a song of yours for any mood to fit any mood so I

00:27:44.520 love that and you've always worked very closely with your one producer chino do you look at like 0.96

00:27:50.360 branching out and you know you talked about being in la and maybe does that a shift you want to make

00:27:55.160 obviously you will always rep toronto i love the jacket i should have said that but do you feel

00:28:00.680 like you could branch out and kind of move past and beyond the canadian music scene um yes and no

00:28:07.400 i feel like you know you never want to limit yourself with like opportunity if something

00:28:11.160 arises there's like this incredible beat and there's like something that grows naturally

00:28:15.720 but i think part of what makes music so special is when it's authentic and it's real and you have

00:28:21.080 a good time doing it and me and chino just really hit it off and he's so talented and i i always say

00:28:28.680 this i'm not the best speaker i might be a great like you know singer and performer but speaking

00:28:34.280 wise sometimes to get my point across it takes me so long and i can't you did great and i i but

00:28:40.920 he always i'll be like i need that and he'll be like i know what you're saying and he'll do it

00:28:45.000 like we have that relationship where he knows what i'm trying to say and so we just kind of feed off

00:28:50.680 each other and even with those mental health songs it was kind of like hey like i'm looking to kind

00:28:57.320 of write this type of song and he actually sent back some beats um that kind of related and then

00:29:04.600 i wrote the songs to the beat so he really knows what i think we've worked with each other for

00:29:11.000 around five and a half years now so um he knows the point that i'm trying to get across so i think

00:29:15.800 we'll always have a great relationship and continue to make music and i think we're very

00:29:19.720 proud to be from canada to be from toronto and i think as much as other opportunities that they

00:29:28.040 arise that's great but i think you always kind of come back home and you have that that special

00:29:33.040 special bond because it it really is we started from nothing to no streams and just working our

00:29:39.560 butts off day and night trying to give people the best that we thought was the best and uh so yeah

00:29:46.560 i think i think part of it is also making the music right you want to enjoy making the music

00:29:51.760 and i think that comes through in our music yeah and i think maybe once you get like too big or

00:29:56.720 whatever the case is sometimes you kind of lose your passion for it like right now it's very very

00:30:01.360 passion driven for you yeah yeah 100 like i always say like if you lock me in a room with gino and 0.97

00:30:08.160 we're just making music for 24 hours like we'll put out as many songs it's like we're not gonna

00:30:13.360 get sick of it because we're just so passionate about it and it's just something that it's like

00:30:18.000 it stimulates you right like it gives you this this this rush um so i think some people like

00:30:24.160 you said lose that maybe if they get to that point i hope i never do i think music is like

00:30:30.320 such a big part of my life that i think i never will but i also think that part of what makes my

00:30:35.520 music great is chino like i i'm not a producer uh so i need that other side of like you know the

00:30:45.200 beat is such a a big part of it like i obviously i write the lyrics and i'm performing them but

00:30:50.080 uh the beat is so special so i think we have something really nice where and he you know

00:30:55.520 he's a bit shyer he likes to be in the in the background scenes and i like to be you know

00:30:59.760 present i'm good with being on stage so we our personalities mesh our likes mesh what we and he's

00:31:07.640 also like he likes dance music but he loves all type of music i like rap music but i like all

00:31:12.680 type of music so we we've been able to be that genre list because we both enjoy so many different

00:31:19.100 forms of music so yeah i just think there's such this like compatibility there that were even if i

00:31:24.680 was this big big big artist he would be this big big big producer because he's part of it right

00:31:32.300 he's yeah i love that yeah i love that relationship i love that and you mentioned a little bit of

00:31:38.220 advice but what other advice would you have for any up-and-coming canadian artists and maybe some

00:31:42.300 tips and tricks to navigate this industry because it's difficult i would just say start i see so

00:31:47.780 many people in my lives who like they come in and they're like hey i want to be an artist too like

00:31:51.620 what do I do? And I'm like, just start, just start writing music, start performing as best

00:31:58.400 as you can get comfortable and try to just keep perfecting your craft. Cause you know, me at 16

00:32:04.540 thought I was the best thing ever. Right. Like I was thought my songs were, yeah, you know,

00:32:09.440 and it now looking back, it's like, yeah, those are good for a 16 year old, but it's,

00:32:15.680 you develop so much. So never think that you're too cool for school and you've got it all figured

00:32:20.580 out keep writing start and realize that there's room to grow and there's always room to get better

00:32:26.660 you're never going to be the best of the best the best you're going to keep improving each day so

00:32:31.460 i would say start and if you can start producing that means that you can do everything by yourself

00:32:36.580 if not you got to get in touch with you know a producer or studios or stuff like that but get in

00:32:41.460 there um it's it's good to be in a studio because you learn a lot about creating music and just

00:32:50.500 the little nitty-gritty that comes comes with making music uh that i'm still learning to this

00:32:55.380 day uh so i would say start there and also you gotta post you can't you can't be scared to post

00:33:01.380 you can't be scared of negative comments you gotta post and now it's like we were talking about it's

00:33:06.260 so social media driven that tick tock instagram even snapchat where wherever you can post show

00:33:14.020 your music off or show you know if you want to start off by doing covers start off by doing

00:33:18.580 covers whatever whatever works because you never know especially with tick tock you never know

00:33:23.060 who is listening who's watching like i'll give you an example i'm performing on my live um earlier

00:33:29.460 this year and this one guy goes i've been a fan of you for so long i actually um am a news anchor

00:33:37.060 now in uh he's from kosovo which is a small country in europe and he goes i'm a news anchor there i'd

00:33:42.740 I'd love to bring you on and do a segment.

00:33:45.580 So just by this guy seeing me, I was like last month, I was on the news in a small country

00:33:51.360 in Europe that, you know, you never think that these opportunities will arise.

00:33:55.940 But if you don't post and you don't put yourself out there, who knows, right?

00:34:00.520 So it just showed like, I just wanted to give that example because you don't know who's

00:34:05.840 watching.

00:34:06.240 You don't know who's going to see your stuff.

00:34:07.820 That's why you got to post and that's why you got to put yourself out there.

00:34:10.260 I love that.

00:34:10.860 That's great advice.

00:34:11.600 And what's next for you?

00:34:12.740 What's on your vision board for 2026 and beyond?

00:34:15.520 2026 is just all about continually to grow my name.

00:34:18.660 I really want to do more live performances.

00:34:21.320 I think that's something that I thrive in is just feeding off crowd energy.

00:34:25.120 And I would love to get to the point where I could kind of tour, maybe do like a small

00:34:29.620 little Canadian tour and just visit different cities who, you know, have some good fan bases

00:34:35.460 there and perform.

00:34:36.380 I think that's the coolest thing ever.

00:34:38.180 So that's really what I want to do.

00:34:39.660 and then now i've got some songs coming out soon um a little bit more upbeat just for you know how

00:34:45.340 life has kind of taken me uh so excited about that um and i'll actually give you a little

00:34:51.500 exclusive stuff right uh i'm working with um so again for opportunity people see your stuff

00:34:59.100 i was on the news in kosovo and this artist from there reached out to me and was like i'd love to

00:35:04.140 do a song with you so i'm actually working on a song with him which i think is going to be super

00:35:08.460 cool he's going to be singing in albanian and i'll be singing in english and yeah it's just

00:35:14.380 another cool experience and kind of you know um him kind of getting the north american audience

00:35:19.820 and me getting the european audience and working with each other um so that's something that i'm

00:35:24.140 kind of working on right now uh so that should be pretty exciting that is that is so exciting

00:35:29.260 i'm so excited for you that's that's awesome and all because you went live on tiktok yeah you just

00:35:34.300 you really got to put yourself out there and whatever you're doing like in it could be any

00:35:40.080 field in life you can't be scared of the rejection the nose the because at the end of the day the

00:35:46.920 people who are criticizing you if they have time to criticize you they're not where they want to

00:35:51.240 be in life that's just what i've always thought what i've always thought of like

00:35:55.140 but it's like if you really have time to take out of your busy schedule to make fun of somebody

00:36:04.280 or try to knock them down for trying,

00:36:06.740 you're not where you want to be in life.

00:36:08.520 So don't let that impact you

00:36:09.660 and just keep going and keep pursuing your dream

00:36:12.440 or your passion or whatever you want to do.

00:36:14.140 I love that.

00:36:15.360 Falk One, and also tell us where we can find you online,

00:36:18.440 where we can stream your music, all that fun stuff.

00:36:20.300 Yeah, so Falk One on all streaming platforms,

00:36:22.220 Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, all that.

00:36:24.240 And then it's It's Falk One on Instagram

00:36:26.300 and It's underscore Falk One on TikTok.

00:36:28.820 I love that.

00:36:29.400 Thank you so much.

00:36:30.360 And don't forget, stream his music at It's Falk One.

00:36:33.140 and you can follow us as well while you're at it

00:36:36.040 and stream us on all major platforms at TPL Media.

00:36:38.700 Until next time.

00:36:46.380 Patriotic means looking up for each other

00:36:48.840 and fixing things together.

00:36:51.240 True patriotism is being in the country you love,

00:36:54.360 surrounded by people you love and great weather.

00:36:56.980 Being a patriot is being a part of your community

00:36:58.780 and caring for it.

00:36:59.920 It doesn't matter who you are or where you're from,

00:37:02.100 Patriotism is the one thing we all share.

00:37:05.100 It's okay to be critical of government and still be a patriot.

00:37:09.100 It's gratitude to your country.

00:37:11.100 Of course I'm a patriot. I'm Canadian. It's my home.

00:37:14.100 Well, actually, true patriot love is the mission.

True Patriot Love - March 25, 2026

＂A Journey Told Through Songs＂ - with Toronto Artist Falc1

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