Review Fix chats with singer/songwriter Jeen, who lets us know all about her process, inspirations and future.
Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?
Jeen: I quit school in grade 10, joined a band in Oshawa, then we moved to Toronto. It was all down hill from there.Â
Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?Â
Jeen: I have a small studio in my attic where I do all my writing and demo-ing (which sort of happens simultaneously)…I usually write in chunks, several songs in a row kind of thing, then I take a break (if I can) until the well fills up again.Â
Review Fix: What inspires you?
Jeen: I’ve been doing this my whole life and if I don’t write I get very low mentally..so I suppose what inspires me the most is to keep my mood stabilized lol but the pure chaos of this world inspires me the most right now.
Review Fix: What does music mean to you?
Jeen: It’s everything to me. I’ve set up my life to revolve around music, so it is my entire world really..I’ve never had a day job and like I said I didn’t even finish school because of music. It’s really all I have and all I do.Â
It’s my blessing and my curse.
Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you?
Jeen: I haven’t really listen to much music over the past decade so I couldn’t really pick a similar band or anything…but umm..I’ve been hearing people say it sounds ‘nineties’ which sort of cracks me up but maybe that would help describe it?Â
God, I don’t know!
Review Fix: How are your live shows different from your studio work?
Jeen: Hard to say with 2020’s complete and utter decimation but I’m going to try change it up, try it as a 3 piece this year…it might sound like shit but if it’s doesn’t I think I’ll stick to that cause its simple and fun…so that would be a pretty big departure from this studio record with tons of tracks…but I’m really looking forward to whittling it down to a 3 piece and just making it a bit more trashy and light.
Review Fix: What inspired your latest single?
Jeen: Basically? depression and anxiety. fun times.
Review Fix: What are your goals for the rest of 2020?
Jeen: I’m in the studio right now making another mini album so I’d love to get a label on board before I’m dead.
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports.
Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders.
His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023.
Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief.
Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale.
Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.
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