Chords for I Blame Coco interview - Coco Sumner (part 2)

_ When I was writing songs, I couldn't really stop doing the whole video thing.
_ Is it flattering that your voice is often compared to your father's?
I don't really know what to say about that.
It's not really something that I've crafted into something.
It's just _ [G] the narrative to the album, the storytelling piece of the record.
The music behind it is more the emotion and the [C] feeling of the songs.
Do you consider it a compliment?
Compliments?
Do you consider it a compliment when people say that your voice sounds like your father's?
I'm not [G] sure.
I don't really take it as anything.
_ _ Do you believe it's harder to be impressed by anything when you grow up the way you did?
You grew up being the daughter.
_ _ I don't think I really did.
I was very much away from the media and away from fame and the spotlight.
I didn't really understand it as a child.
So I think it's unfair to say that I grew up in that light. _ _
_ No, that doesn't mean that nothing impresses me.
[A] Has it been hard to be in that light?
You chose for it yourself, of course.
Stepping out of the shades.
Everyone's got an obstacle that they have to overcome in their life.
And I think _ _ me in the public, they sort of see me as someone who's considered nepotism to [G] build a career.
And that's the exact opposite of what I did.
[A] So it is frustrating.
But [G] hopefully [F#] it's all going to blow away one day.
Is it really frustrating?
Do you think about that a lot?
I don't think about it.
It's just I hear it a lot _ in interviews. _ _
Yeah, it comes with it.
_ [G] _ The first songs that you played in Paradiso were really different from the songs. _ _ _ _
[F#] _ Was there a specific moment?
_ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ Yeah, I was in a lot of reggae bands.
And the band I played with here was one of them. _
And when I was writing songs, I couldn't really stop doing the whole reggae thing.
And as soon as I _ realised I can write different songs and I can [G] write different sounding things,
then my mind went off into a whole different world where there was a lot more that I could write about.
When did the realisation come that you could do so much more?
That happened about two years ago now.
I say a year and a half, but I've been saying that for about half a year now.
It's funny how things have gone very quickly.
But you did have to cut off your ties with the reggae band, right?
You had to do it by yourself?
Yeah, definitely.
_ I flew to Sweden and I sat there in a hotel room.
I didn't know anyone there.
I didn't really know the language or anything.
And I just sat there past the point of boredom when you've called all your friends
and when you miss home to battling with myself about certain things.
It was really time to think.
_ Then I started writing this _ record. _ _ _
And now it's done and it's out there.
Was that the goal of the trip, writing this record?
Or did you move to Sweden for other reasons?
It was to get away from everything that I knew.
I needed to get away from everything that was familiar to me _
[D#] in [G] order for me to write something that I wouldn't write if I was relaxed at home.
[F] What things did you find in Sweden that you [G] couldn't get a hold of? _ _
I think _ I found peace after a while.
I think when I was writing the songs it's quite relieving to make sense of something
that's been bothering you for a while even if you didn't know it was bothering you.
I made a lot of friends there.
_ _ _ And I found isolation in which I could be creative. _ _ _ _ _