Jay Franze: 0:45

And we are coming to the live. I am Jay Friendsie, and uh with me tonight, the Ernie to my Bert, my beautiful co-host, Ms. Tiffany Mate.

Tiffany Mason: 0:55

I was going to try to do a Bert voice, but I don't think I will. So anyway.

Jay Franze: 1:00

If you are new to the show, this is your stores for the latest news, reviews, and interviews. And if you would like to join in, comment, or fire off any questions, please head over to jFrenzy.com. All right, folks, tonight we have a very special guest with us. I said it once, I will say it again. We have a very special guest. We have a recording artist hailing from the great state of Connecticut. We have Kane Falcon. Kane, sir, thank you for joining us.

Kayn Falcon: 1:26

Thank you for having me.

Jay Franze: 1:28

It is our pleasure. Why don't we just start right off with how does living in Connecticut impact your music career?

Kayn Falcon: 1:39

Jesus. I mean, I'd say for the most part, being next to the big apple is a big influence on my part. Connecticut on its own is pretty calm. It's a pretty calm state. Not much going on. I like it though. It's a nice, peaceful place where you can kind of gather your ideas and cleanse your energy and make good records.

Tiffany Mason: 2:02

Is that why your bio says that you are from Connecticut slash New York?

Kayn Falcon: 2:06

Yeah. I can't, I can't, you know, it would be a lie if I didn't didn't say that I was heavily influenced by the big city.

Tiffany Mason: 2:16

Yeah.

Jay Franze: 2:17

How far is it from you?

Kayn Falcon: 2:19

On train is like 40, 50 minutes. Oh. Hop, skip, and then jump away.

Jay Franze: 2:25

Basically suburb.

Kayn Falcon: 2:26

It's not that bad.

Jay Franze: 2:27

So who would you say influences you the most?

Kayn Falcon: 2:32

Well, um definitely somebody like Madonna, people who have broken the status quo, people who push the limit. I think as creatives, our job is really to embody that art is a message. And so I think somebody like Madonna has influenced a lot of art might work in the sense that you know if she wasn't involved in the game, I think it would not be the way that it is today. The same with Michael. Both of them had huge influences on the current way we listen to music. We buy music, we even make videos and whatnot. But I think career-wise, uh image-wise, I think I look up to her mostly because she was so uh profoundly herself. She really connected with me because I found myself being like the black sheep, and I saw she was like the black sheep in her own way. So I think you know that connection of being different, it saves you in the end.

Jay Franze: 3:39

Every time music made a shift, she was able to be there and shift with it. So do you feel like that's something that you are able to do?

Kayn Falcon: 3:47

Yeah, I think it's important to have a 50-50 step in that game. It's important to obviously, you know, keep up with the trends and try to, you know, be modern and you know, but you have to also music has to come from the soul, it has to come from your calling. And I agree with that. She definitely was able to change according to the landscape, but she still was very much herself in the way that she delivered her bodies of work. But yeah, a hundred percent.

Jay Franze: 4:21

Why do you identify as a black sheep?

Kayn Falcon: 4:24

Well, a lot of reasons. I feel like well, beginning with, you know, at least in my family, coming from a household of immigrants, and also most importantly, somebody who came with a lot of heavy expectations. I kind of was the first one to break a lot of them. Beginning with the fact that I didn't play soccer. I never really partook in sports in high school, and I never was really a big fan of it. I mean, I I love working out, but I just was not a big fan of perhaps soccer, and and I kind of just follow my intuition to music and art. And I think that spoke to my soul and it gave me a sense of like a sense of not power but um like security of you know being able to really express myself. And I mean, for a really long time I felt like an outsider in high school. I felt like I wasn't I wasn't put in an I wasn't I wasn't I didn't have like a group of people, you know how everyone has like their own groups of people.

Tiffany Mason: 5:29

Sure.

Kayn Falcon: 5:30

Like I was very much kind of viewing everything from an from a bird's eye view from the upper level, and I didn't really feel connected.

Tiffany Mason: 5:41

So do you feel that way now? Have you met other artists that make you feel a little bit more grounded, a little bit more present, a little bit more part of some an like a community?

Kayn Falcon: 5:51

Yeah, I mean, I I definitely have like still my idol, so I feel like in a way I can connect to them. I haven't really found too many people that connect to me in that level. I think it's about consciousness and also like you know, like vibes, everyone has a different frequency, they move in. But I definitely feel like I've I mean I've met some cool dope people, my closest friends, I would say, are in that same and like lengthy, but it's not too many people that I can call and respond to. It takes time.

Jay Franze: 6:29

How large is your friend group?

Kayn Falcon: 6:31

Uh well, I mean, I have acquaintance. I believe there's a difference between friends and acquaintance. You can have people that you go and you know, hi, how's it going? Everything's cool, but then people you actually trust. Because I'm a big believer that family is not just blood, it comes from actions, it comes from your showing up, yeah. Your beliefs, and so I would say like friends, friends. I have like three, like people that I can count.

Tiffany Mason: 6:59

Like, I know that's pretty good though, Kane, honestly. Oh, yeah. I mean, I feel like most people get one, two, three that you get to, you know, really deeply connect with and share secrets or troubles or desires with that, you know. I don't think that we get to get very close to a lot of people. So I think that's pretty good. I sounds like you're really blessed, really.

Kayn Falcon: 7:22

Yeah, no, I'm not gonna I'm a hundred percent grateful for the opportunity. I mean, I feel really grateful that I even have, like I said, people that I can trust. But it uh there is a difference again, because I have obviously acquaintance. You all know that we from you know workspaces and whatnot, but people that I truly trust. Um yeah, like I would say like three, um, I think.

Jay Franze: 7:47

Yeah, and I get Tiffany.

Tiffany Mason: 7:51

Lucky bastard. All right.

Jay Franze: 7:54

The other thing you mentioned was that you go down to New York about every other week to record. So let's talk about that for a minute. Where are you going to record?

Kayn Falcon: 8:01

Flex Studios.

Jay Franze: 8:03

Okay, and describe that to us. What kind of studio is it?

Kayn Falcon: 8:06

It's a pretty hidden space. That was like my first, my first time ever recording there was in 2020 for the pandemic. I released my debut single, Brilliant Minds. I like the vibe of it. I believe that in a studio you have to kind of go in and feel the energy. Even though I am only there for vocals because I do make my own records, I still like to have a cool place where you can really get the vibe up. And it's a pretty hidden space. It's like a like a like a single door to the side of a corner store. It's pretty hidden. And you know what? It works perfect for me. Because once you go in, take the elevator, I normally go down to like the lower level, like underground. Like it, I don't know, there's something there that I really enjoy for most of my singles and on release songs. I've gotten there and I I love it. I love the energy, and I just also feel a connection to New York City. I feel like the energy is really fast. I don't know. I have a thing with like fast-paced cities, like I love them because there's you know, there's there's endless energy, and I really, really like it.

Jay Franze: 9:19

So you mentioned that you're producing your own records, so you're going there for vocals. So when you're there, is it just working with an engineer?

Kayn Falcon: 9:27

Um, yeah, it pretty much has been just clicking with the engineers and having them like click the rep button and record vocals. And I think I like it that way. I think the more private a session is, the more magic you can get out of. At least in my beliefs, I I do write and produce all my records, and I have co-written, but I think when the flow of creativity is narrow, it can really deliver properly. And I think, you know, the less people the better. I know it's like I don't think some people love having like 10 10 people in one room. I'm very much like, I think my creative process is kind of like a kind of like spiritual. It's a very sacred time for me. And I like to just make sure that I'm making my records at my own pace and I'm singing when I feel like my voice is ready to go.

Tiffany Mason: 10:28

Well, you said that you didn't really feel like you connected with a lot of people, or maybe possibly didn't feel heard necessarily. And so when you pour your soul out and create these songs, it is kind of sacred to you because you're kind of letting out what you want to say to people, but you don't necessarily have those sounding boards, or you used to not. And so, you know, your music is probably pretty personal and sacred, and the fact that you it sounds like it's an extension of you. So that would make sense to me that you would want to kind of have private time and hone in the lyrics or the melody or the music, you know, that you're putting with the songs.

Kayn Falcon: 11:06

Yeah, a hundred percent. You really hit the nail in the head with that one because it really is it's like therapy. I believe again, music for me, it's more than just a catchy hook. It's it's uh an expression, it's a message. I know for a fact in my darkest times, what really kind of got me through it was, you know, music. I feel like there is a sense of connection, and I definitely would agree that I take my time with the records and just try to, you know, express myself to the best of my abilities and deliver in the best way that I can.

Tiffany Mason: 11:46

Yeah. It says um it in your bio, you know, there's some influences that you've had, and you're saying, you know, New York City, and you like the fast pace of the energy of the city of New York City. And so I'm wondering the music that you put out. It's interesting to me that it is such an expression of you, but it's also very fast-paced. So can you speak to maybe why the songs are coming out fast-paced? I guess in my if I just met you or I just read that, you know, on the internet, I'd be like, oh, these are probably like really, you know, like ballads or full of emotion or whatever. And so can you speak to you know, why they end up being a little bit faster beat?

Kayn Falcon: 12:28

Yeah, I love pop music. I am not gonna sit here and lie. I think everyone, some people listen, country artists love their country art, like genre. There are country artists who have been going at it for 30, 40 years, romantics who have been going at it for 50, 60 years, and they're proud of the genre of music they create. And I think there's nothing wrong with being proud of being a pop artist, and I love upbeat music. Upbeat doesn't have to mean happy, it can still create a sense of it creates uh consciousness. And I think in my personal liking, I like upbeats. I really do. I think tempos below 90 tend to be a bit difficult to work with, in my experience. So I do like them to have you know uh punchy sound to them. I mean, I'm definitely gonna have a bit slower records in the album, but my latest singles have been upbeat because I also try to hide the meaning behind records. So, for example, automatic, my latest single, it's a bit of a commentary on modern society and living life in an automatic type of way, on like autopilot. Because I try to write in a very subtle way where you have to kind of read the lyrics to understand the message of the song. I think upbeat music kind of really helps like kind of like smoke and mirrors that scene, like kind of blurry blurry the meaning a bit. So you kind of just left with the hook instead of the whole meaning. Because I believe that if you're gonna want to look for the meaning, you have to dig deeper. Yeah. Yeah, I I that's why it takes some time for me. Because I'm not trying to just make a crazy hook, I'm trying to make a meaning behind it, but still catchy enough for the listener to want to give it a listen. I I'll tell you this much. I don't think I have it in my current catalogue of music that I can think of, a bunch of songs that are under the 100th BPM. Yeah. So I think for the most part, they tend to be a pretty upbeat, but I just love I love that sound. It's so I don't know, they really again I'm just a sucker for pop music.

Tiffany Mason: 14:47

Okay, so I know very little about EDM, but I know that there's like different houses or something, different genres within EDM. So, where do you fall in the EDM spectrum?

Kayn Falcon: 15:01

Oh, um, you know what? Um, I would probably say, well, as of right now, the upcoming record's very synthpop. So maybe I wouldn't really call it techno. Maybe like synthwave. I think synthwave might fall under that category because it's like club music, there's house music, there's a bunch of like you're right, there's a bunch of smaller categories that fall into that category. But yeah, definitely like synthwave. Synthwave right now is really speaking to me. I love synthesizers, they just they're so dope. I love them. Um but yeah, I would say probably like synth. I mean, yeah, no, synth wave is definitely the genre I'd fall back on.

Tiffany Mason: 15:49

Okay, awesome. And do you do the EDM parties? Like, do you go and you know, quote unquote, perform any of the music at any of the EDM parties?

Kayn Falcon: 16:01

I have not EDM parties. I um because again, I I will say like I'm such a um when it comes to performing, I I'm out to do things, however, I haven't gone to an EDM specific EDM party where I'm to just you know drop like I haven't done that yet, but I mean I have gone to like smaller clubs. Hey, can you you know play the record? And you know, people they're vibing to it. It's just a matter of I think right now exposure, like trying to really push it out there for people to hear it. But I mean I love to, I would love to go and perform and you know sing the records. And you know, I think those parties are a lot of fun. I've been to a couple of them. I'm not I wouldn't call myself too much of a night owl, but I mean I who doesn't love a good EDM party? Come on now. Now come on.

Tiffany Mason: 16:55

I'm too old for them now, so um come on.

Jay Franze: 17:00

All right, I want to take a step back for just a second because you mentioned going in that studio to record your music. So can you kind of explain to us after you go in the studio and you record your parts, do you then take them home and mix them yourself?

Kayn Falcon: 17:16

Right. So I for the upcoming album that I'm releasing, I am a beat maker first, I'm a producer first. Every single song has the instrumentals first. I know everyone does like lyrics first, melody. I have to have a beat because I I I don't know, that's just the way that I like it. After I have the beat, I create the song, and then when I get a demo, I have the demo of it, I go and record vocals at the big city. After I get those, I normally would bring them home. I have my mixing engineer, Elijah, he's in Cali. I normally send him the stems and he mixes it all together, and then we send that off for mastering to another buddy of ours. So I do the producing aspect, the writing, the mixing and mastering. I leave that for somebody else who knows how you know that whole thing goes. It's a bit more complicated, and I am a big believer that you cannot do everything yourself, you have to let specialists do their thing. Yeah, I would say that's kind of like the process of things, but I'm really happy with the work so far, and they're amazing. Elijah is a genius, he's so good at what he does.

Jay Franze: 18:36

What makes him good at what he does?

Kayn Falcon: 18:38

It makes it sound professional. I I will tell you this like I've had honestly, like probably over like seven mixing engineers in the past, and I feel like you know, it just really depends on the sound you're going for. My ear is kind of tailored for a specific pop compressed sound, and not everyone can get the mix to that level. So I'm really grateful that I found somebody that was able to do that because you would be surprised. You will be surprised.

Jay Franze: 19:16

Trust me, I I I don't think I would.

Kayn Falcon: 19:18

Yeah, it's not not everyone has that ability.

Jay Franze: 19:22

I I've seen some crazy things for sure. So that's an approach that you take. So we're walking through your your process. So that now, once everything's complete and it's mastered, are you then marketing your product or are you using a team of people to market your product for you?

Kayn Falcon: 19:38

As a reason, I did just got a publicist kind of crew, so they're really amazing at what they're helping me with. But I I was the one kind of pushing the promotion, you know, because when I was younger, I was like, I don't want to do the whole TikTok thing. I don't want to become an influencer to try to have to, you know, do music, but you kind of have to, you kind of have to do it. I mean, there's no other choice. And you know, the artist is kind of forced to do the influencer lifestyle now because it's the only way you get traction. I mean, even now, the algorithm is changing every week. There's new things coming out, and um like not unfortunately, but you do have to play the game in that sense. Where before it was about getting a record deal, it's now you have to get on the preview page. It's the same game, just different letters. And in that sense, I mean it's a bit easier, I guess, but you have to really, you know, if you're not if you're not being backed by a major record label, you you have to put in the hours to, you know, work on marketing and product placement. And you know, it's great, it's fun. I don't mind it. I actually really enjoy it, but it's it can be definitely if you're not you know making a salary off your music yet, it can definitely it takes a bit of time.

Jay Franze: 21:00

Well, I mean, I know you're talking about taking on social media and working with the algorithm and trying to find your your place in a sea of people, but your brand, your image seems to be different than most. You seem to have a very fashion forward image as well. So is that something that you focus on?

Kayn Falcon: 21:18

Yeah, I do also work on theme according with the upcoming album. A bit of a story, if you don't mind. The upcoming album was written when I was back up in freshman year. I'm currently 22. I wrote the album when I was in freshman, so that was like what? I was like 17. And I was fresh starting to make the beats. I, you know, was going in for freshman year, and the high school experience really did something to me. When I was in freshman, I was gonna release an album. I was talking to record deals and people, but nobody was signed, you know, an 18-year-old boy. That's that just was not gonna happen. So I ended up not moving forward with it. I continue sharpening my uh writing skills, my singing and my producing skills, and I continue forward until recently. You know, I was like, I want to go commercial, I want to go big. And most of my music tends to be a bit darker, a little bit pessimistic. However, I wanted to go brighter, and you know, I was kind of meditating and thinking, what should I do to go bigger? And then it clicked. You know, I had the album that I made in freshman year, and I went back, I was looking for the hard drive, I was like, where is it? I found it, I played it, and I was amazed. I was gagged, in other words, I was like, what the this is insane. The record sounded so pure, there was a magic to them that you really cannot recreate nowadays. And I was like, this is it, this is what I'm going to release next. And I I told my team, I told my friends, and I I actually had my friends come over and listen to the album, and they were like, You've never done anything like this before. This is actually insane. Looking back at it now, as somebody who has now written more songs, the structure of the way that I was making music back then was pretty damn close to how you know bigger records are made. So I really think there was something in the air during that time period.

Jay Franze: 23:33

So, as you're talking about making these transitions and going back and finding your earlier works and putting them together, you're kind of discovering who you are and where you're going. So, do you feel like you have now have a clear vision of who you are, or do you think that's still a work in progress because you're still fairly young?

Kayn Falcon: 23:50

I think I have an idea of my basis. I think, you know, I'm a big believer that it's about creating yourself, not perhaps finding yourself. Some people, yeah, it works for them and good for you. I just feel like personally, in my way, uh trying to find myself was really never that much of a process. It was about creating myself with the habits, the way that I think. And so I would definitely say that I I have a good basis as to who I am, things that I'm not willing to change about myself. Because you definitely have to be to a certain degree self-aware of who you are in order to, in order to become successful in life, but just in in order to be a purposeful individual.

Tiffany Mason: 24:37

Yeah. Jay wrote a book called Standout or Fade Out, a lot about personal branding. So when you have a clear identity of who you are, if it's in the process of finding yourself or creating yourself, once you know that though, that really gives you some, it really forces you forward. Jay, your face is awesome right now. But you know what I'm trying to say? It really like momentum. There we go. Momentum. Yeah. It really gives you some momentum when you can kind of identify where you are, what you stand for, and the music you want to create.

Kayn Falcon: 25:12

A hundred percent. A hundred thousand percent. And you know what? Adding on to what you said, I do believe that some people actually, what both of you said, some people it takes some time for them, and that's completely okay. Everyone goes at their own pace. I think everyone's timeline is different. I think mine, I kind of knew a lot of it from the very beginning. And you know, some things I'm so changing, but I think for the most part, especially after going back. I mean, man, I was, you know, opening the hard drive like five years after. It was insane. This is like music that I completely forgot about. Things that were, you know, I didn't even remember existed. And you know, going back and I listening to those records, I was like, wow, well, first of all, I love that you impressed yourself.

Tiffany Mason: 26:00

I know that I love that so much. I love that you like found this gem, and then you're like, holy crap, that was so good.

Kayn Falcon: 26:08

I'm gonna build off of that. You know what it is? It well, first of all, yes, I was really impressed. Not even because again, the music, but the self-awareness that I had at such a young age. I was like, wow. But most importantly, again, I was like what, 18, 17. I wanted to kind of debut with this idea, this body of work, because I feel like I wouldn't be able to if I didn't release the music, this music now, I wouldn't be able to release it any any other time because it would have been too old by then, the music wouldn't be clicking. And funny enough, I don't believe in coincidences. So I actually think because I decided to release this body of work, things have started to fall into place. Like weirdly enough. And I was like, huh, that's a sign. I believe that I'm in the right path. But yeah, I mean, I looking back at the body of the music, it was it was very um, very insane that you know, I was writing about those topics and the production style, and it was it was nice. Uh, you know, looking back at it, I'm like, wow, you know what? I started with the solid rock. I really was not well no, because I'm also like realistic. I'm not gonna be, you know, like, oh yeah, like that was good. No, like if I if I didn't hear it myself, I wouldn't put it out.

Tiffany Mason: 27:32

Right, right.

Kayn Falcon: 27:33

Like I love, you know, I love making music, but I also believe in you know, you gotta have a good song. You gotta, you know, I don't believe in the whole, you know, oh, but this has memories. Well, if it has memories, we can keep it in the back burner, we can keep it there. We don't have to release it. Like, I've actually listened to a lot of these songs by myself, and I you know, so it's it's nice to go back and really get those memories back out again.

Jay Franze: 27:58

Yeah. Oh, I got a question for you in regards to um what Ms. Tiffany was saying earlier. She was talking about performing at some of these parties. What is your goal when it comes to performing? Since the style of music you're doing doesn't necessarily lend itself to live performance when it comes to a band. So do you find yourself performing with DJs or in other ways?

Kayn Falcon: 28:23

Theatrical ways of performing. I I really as this upcoming era is very theatrical, very much like a play of sorts. I think um unfortunately, we've lost a lot of theatrics, we've lost a lot of entertaining performances. You can get you know on a stage and sing in front of, you know, get a mic and sing in front of the crowd, or you can have a band. But I do like uh a show and a show that tells you a story. I obviously have not performed in like crazy festivals or anything like that yet.

Tiffany Mason: 28:56

Can you help me, Kane, and explain what that would look like? I'm having a hard time just even picturing, I don't I don't really know what it means.

Kayn Falcon: 29:04

Basically, here I'll I'll tell you a little a little secret as I'm planning to hopefully go on bigger festivals next year.

Tiffany Mason: 29:14

Okay.

Kayn Falcon: 29:16

I would be performing with backup dancers because I do believe that the more the merrier, and I do like a bit more soul into it. You know what I'm saying? I could perform by myself, I have no problem doing that, but I do believe that for pop, a very traditional pop. I believe you know you gotta really grab them by the throat and give them a good show.

Tiffany Mason: 29:36

I think Michael did that in some of his videos, didn't he?

Kayn Falcon: 29:39

Yeah, yeah, a hundred percent. I mean, that was like the OG of like great performances, you you know. But it would be, you know, me going on stage. I'm actually debating whether or not I want to have like because you can do like LED screens, like the bigger, but those tend to be a bit more expensive, or you can do like the ri like what is it?

Jay Franze: 29:58

L your projections.

Kayn Falcon: 29:59

Projectors, yeah, the projectors. So I I think I'm trying to do projectors as of now, being smart about my budget. Um but it will be consistent of me, you know, performances being very like. Theatrical. When I mean theatrical, I mean in the sense of like you're kind of following a story. So a lot of it is kind of just me acting the story out with the backup dancers following along. Something that I really enjoy because I do like the entertainment part of it. I do enjoy the entertainment part of it. Obviously, it's kind of really hard to explain such a thing without seeing it. So for that, I would say, you know, next year we will be hitting the stages. But I do like to put a story in it and give them something to break down.

Tiffany Mason: 30:51

Interesting.

Jay Franze: 30:52

So if you're performing in that manner, how are you connecting with your audience?

Kayn Falcon: 30:58

Well, at the same time as you're, you know, telling a story, we don't live in an age where people put their phones down, or at least not as of now. Everyone's always recording. And I want to make sure that I'm first of all giving a good vocal performance, but I want to make sure the fans are following along with the story that the concert is telling. Because the album is a concept body of work. It's a story. Well, hopefully the idea is that they will understand the story. Connecting with the audience consists again. There's a segment in the show where I would be, I don't want to say too much, but I want to bring it up. True that, but I'm gonna bring, you know, some people onto the stage and have them participate in a way that again interacting with the audience, making sure that I am also keeping an eye out on the crowd.

Jay Franze: 32:02

How are you connecting with people outside of your performances? How are you building that fan base?

Kayn Falcon: 32:08

Oh good lord. Trust, they are alive and well, I actually had um I do these things called like confessionals on my social media platforms where I have like my followers, I guess they drop confessions and like I'll be like, hey guys, you know, like how's it going? Just like tell me something. And they are they're quite they're quite the crew. You know, they're very wild. Um, every so every so often I'll post a photo and they'll be like, hey, so like where's the new music? They'll actually like they'll like curse me out. They'd be like, where's the new music? Like, we we've been waiting for the new album, and I'm like, I'm so sorry. I'm like, guys, I'm a I'm a one-man crew in here, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm I'm I'm really pushing it through. Yeah, mostly his connection through the um the social media, like Instagram, TikTok, getting to a point where I think I can start doing smaller venues. Because that's the thing, you can have 10,000 followers, but as long as you have like you know, 6,000 of them who are really loyal to you, you can go a long way.

Jay Franze: 33:18

Oh, absolutely. That's the key is to have a thousand true fans, right? So let's talk business for a second. How are you supporting yourself and this career while you're trying to get it up to a point where it can then support you?

Kayn Falcon: 33:34

Well, I am a workaholic. I truly do work like nobody else. And what I mean by that is I have multiple jobs. I have worked ever since I could. I think you know, knowing that I once you kind of lock in with your purpose and that you know you want to do this for the rest of your life, you have to really give it your all. There is no plan B. And you have to do everything in your power. So, with that being said, I worked from retail to restaurants. I'm actually still working as we speak. Restaurants, as you know, servers.

Jay Franze: 34:14

Have you considered doing things for other artists? Like singing background vocals or dancing for other artists, or even helping with the the things that you've learned through your marketing process for yourself, applying that to other artists.

Kayn Falcon: 34:30

Yeah, I I'm a hundred percent down to collab collaborate with other people and other artists. I would love to. I just I've collaborated before. Um again, I just want to be I'm always truthful. But when you go to some artist, you just want to make sure you're serving that.

Jay Franze: 34:48

Well, I was just thinking you're probably a step ahead of most. So if you're a step ahead of most, you can use your knowledge as a guide for other people, and you can use that as a form of making income through your industry while you're trying to get the rest of your stuff off the ground.

Tiffany Mason: 35:05

Possibly rubbing elbows or bumping into those people that could open doors for you.

Kayn Falcon: 35:09

A hundred percent. Yeah, I would love to. I do love to make music and I love artistry. I would be it would be amazing to be able to write with other people. I mean, I've I've done it as just you know, trying to find people who are actually into the because you want to make sure you're making the genre according to the artist. Right. Um yeah, I love to. I would love to.

Jay Franze: 35:33

What's been your biggest challenge?

Kayn Falcon: 35:36

Um I'm pretty much a perfectionist in the sense that making sure the song is at the best. For example, my last single had 11 different choruses. Now, Tiffany, trust me. That's nothing compared to a two and a half hour song. Oh, true. No, yeah. I I wish. I uh honestly I wish when I have an image in my head, a vision, I try to really follow it, and sometimes it takes time. I mean, automatic took a year to be finished, like fully finished. It had 11 different courses, four different verses, it had like eight different pre-courses, and mind you, the pre-course is literally seven seconds, but I do pull my all into it, and I think my biggest challenge is that being perfect, because everyone's like, Oh, you're your worst critic. No, I actually I'm not actually I I like to leave it on my own best friend because I actually really love what I do, and I just want to make sure that it's good. However, I do know the the limit where you really you're like, okay, like this is the best we can do it. Let's just like leave it there. So definitely the biggest challenge is that.

Tiffany Mason: 36:54

What do you think made automatics so special? Or what is you know, when you're performing it, where are the parts that you're like, oh, here it comes. I hope the audience is ready for this. You know, like what are the parts you really love?

Kayn Falcon: 37:06

Actually, the very first hook, come to superbia. That part is the thing that when I I performed it at my birthday party, and the minute the beadrop came in, I didn't even have to sing the beginning verse because I just moved the mic to my friends and they were like, come to sub. And they were like, you know, really getting into it. Well, to answer your question, the thing that made it special, the verse was actually, again, a really good hook thing. Like it had something to it, and the meaning behind it. Again, I I do believe that as an artist, you do have a job, and you can write about your personal experiences, but you can also do what a lot of legendary, iconic artists have done, which is staple history, like what's going on right now in 2025, and and automatic is again living life on autopilot, being very conscious. So I think on you know, on that aspect, the meaning was really important, but on the song itself, I think it made it really special because it was the first song where I was going full pop. I wasn't doing like darker electronic. This is like full-blown in your face pop music.

Tiffany Mason: 38:24

I suppose I was a little surprised to hear you singing in falsetto. So I'm curious, is that how you tend to perform? Is that your preference? Is kind of that falsetto sound.

Kayn Falcon: 38:36

Yeah, I mean, I I would say for the most part, pop requires a bit of brightness to it. I also love that sound, like that nasality quality to it. So I yeah, for the most part, I try to sing it in that more nasal quality. It took everyone by a surprise when they were like, That's you, and I was like, Yeah. But I also think that it's a it says a lot. It says a lot that we do not expect a lot from male singers. I feel like a lot of male singers just kind of get to hit the bear, they're like, uh, and that's it. I feel like, no, but I'm not this is you know, being realistic.

Tiffany Mason: 39:13

I mean not maybe very much range or showing very much skill or something, maybe.

Kayn Falcon: 39:18

Yeah, and I'm not saying um Freddie Mercury, I'm not saying that. I do believe, however, that I like to put some soul into it and spice it up a little, you know. I I and I do believe that it does signify that we should start pushing the vocals a bit more because who doesn't like to sing, you know, hear a guy really get to those notes. And but yeah, I mean I I don't mind it. I have sung lower before. I mean, substance has a bit of a lower quality to it, where it's more of like he leaves the bar with the prescription, it's a very lower tone, it's not too crazy. Automatic definitely brings the more pop into the well in the beginning.

Tiffany Mason: 40:00

You said that you wanted to kind of push the envelope a little bit, like Madonna and Michael. And so I suppose that is pushing it a little bit, right? We're expecting we see a male face and we expect a male voice, and then we hear this falsetto, or like you said, a little bit more nasally, it takes us off off guard a little bit. 100%.

Kayn Falcon: 40:17

That's literally part of the formula. I mean, if it mixed, listen, the first time I sent a song over for mixing, I got the an email from the mixer, and he goes, Yeah, like the song, the sound, blah blah blah. And then he goes, Oh, and who's that girl singing? And I was like, Mm-hmm. I was like, Okay, yeah, I got it. I I caught the vibe for what you're saying. But again, I I I actually love it, and that's something that I had to come to terms with in high school. I actually never sung in choir because I remember one time I sung for my friend, and they told me that it sounded more feminine, and I didn't want to ever sing again, and now I kind of just embrace it.

Jay Franze: 40:56

I was gonna say, does that bother you?

Kayn Falcon: 40:58

No, you know why? Because at least I don't sound, you know, like a thousand other guys.

Jay Franze: 41:04

No, it makes you sound unique.

Kayn Falcon: 41:07

At least you sound more you you have something to it, and I I like again accepting yourself is what I realized a lot in this album. I realized a lot about that. It was just, you know, you have one voice, it's not bad. You have been blessed with vocal cords, use them.

Jay Franze: 41:24

There's something to be said about being different.

Tiffany Mason: 41:27

Yeah, yeah. I was gonna say, you said you're trying to create who you are, and so those are the building blocks for who you're becoming.

Kayn Falcon: 41:36

Again, exactly. You don't have to dig too deep into finding who you are, it can sometimes just be right there. And my voice is uh I'm you know, I'm singing the way that I speak, and I I I'm just trying to be myself. Where before my unreleased songs, like my debut single in 2020, I was singing in this darker, more masculine sounding like tone. And then funny enough, my grandma she was like, Did that hurt? And I was like, and I was like, What are you saying? And she was like, Yeah, like it sounds like you were so like you know, really forcing the tone. And I was like, you know what? Ever since then, I just you know what, I'm just gonna sing the way that I feel comfortable. That's the one, and that's the thing.

Tiffany Mason: 42:22

I think that's when you enjoy life the most when you are who you are. I was always made fun of for my laugh, and when we get a lot of compliments about my laugh, so they're just they're just like suck it, Chris Hillman. Nice.

Jay Franze: 42:38

All right. Well, we do this thing here we call unsung heroes, where we take a moment to shine the light on somebody who works behind the scenes or somebody that may have supported you along the way. Do you have anybody that you would like to shine a little light on?

Kayn Falcon: 42:50

Oh Lord, my mother is my biggest supporter. And I love Imami, she is the first person who ever believed in me. I'm very much a black sheep in in the crew that I was in. So when it came time for me to be like, hey, I want the music, you best believe a bunch of people were like, hey, so that's actually not a reasonable career, and you're not gonna do that. And I said to them, No, I'm gonna follow through, and I did, and my mom has always supported me. She was there for my first recording, she was there for my first photo shoot. She is the cutest thing in the world, and the reason why I think I push so hard is seeing her work work ethic, first of all, but also seeing you know how she wanted to accomplish all these dreams, but couldn't. And I have the blessings of life to do the things that I do, to be where I am today, and I will gladly grab the torch and follow through. And she's literally been my biggest supporter, and she is the first person I show the songs to. I'm like, hey mommy, like can you listen to this? And she'll be like, I love that, or I that's not you know my favorite. She is the only one who has supported me through and through when people said that I couldn't sing, when people said that I sounded like this or like that, and she always believed in me, and for that I am forever grateful.

Jay Franze: 44:24

What's your family's background?

Kayn Falcon: 44:27

Uh, Costa Rican. We're Costa Rican. That's the flag right now. We're a very petite crew, but you know, I am just really grateful. Awesome.

Jay Franze: 44:37

All right. Well, we have done it. We have reached the top of the hour, which does mean we have reached the end of the show. And if you've enjoyed the show, please tell a friend. And if you have not, Miss Tiffany.

Tiffany Mason: 44:46

Tell two.

Jay Franze: 44:47

Tell two. You can reach out to both of us. Hell, you can reach out to all three of us over at jFrenzy.com, and we will be happy to keep this conversation going until at least two or three, four in the morning. Just reach out to us and we will go all night long. Kane, sir, we cannot thank you enough for being here. It's been an absolute blast. We would like to leave the final words to you.

Kayn Falcon: 45:08

Thank you for having me. I had a great time. Make sure you follow Jay and our homegirl, Tiffany. Again, thank you for having me. Had a blast, and I hope the listeners are having a blast too. Have a beautiful night.

Jay Franze: 45:21

All right, folks.

Tony Scott: 45:22

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