A Dirty Dozen with BAM FATALE – January 2025

Photo credit: Dean Scott

According to a recent press release: “Bam Fatale is a solo post-genre artist of Afro-Indigenous Choctaw descent. She is a fierce advocate for Human Rights, Domestic Violence Victims and Animal Rights. Bam Fatale’s upcoming debut EP Me Vs. I was produced by Ben Johnson. This young eccentric artist recently moved to Atlanta for bigger music opportunities and a chance to create a larger impact with her music. With no current niche genre, Bam keeps her volume of work genreless and fluid, making whatever is in her spirit to make. She says her influences are everything and anything she’s ever heard. Ever since childhood, Bam had to endure a very controlling and harsh upbringing that would later influence her style and music. Bam started performing in school plays and local theater since elementary school where she has always felt most comfortable on a stage.” We get Bam to discuss new music, influences, and more…

1. Tell us a little about your latest release.  What might a fan or listener not grab the first or second time they listen through?  Are there any hidden nuggets you put in the material or that only diehard fans might find?

The newest song I dropped “Silence Fills this room” is about domestic violence. I wanted to make a song to help others break the cycle of continued abuse. So I decided to write a little bit about my experience. Some may think it’s a song about being a victim. It’s more about standing up and getting out of that abusive dynamic. I left a nice Easter egg in the background of the lyric video, I just dropped. That will have a cool full circle moment, when the official music video is released.

2. What got you into music, and can you tell us about the moment you realized you wanted to be a musician?

I grew up in theater. I’ve been around Music my whole life and have always known I wanted to be a part of it. As little as five years old, I’ve been singing and dancing around the house. Music has always been a part of who I am.

3. Building on that, is there a specific song, album, performer, or live show that guided your musical taste?

I have always loved Céline Dion since I was a little girl. Amy Lee was an influence when it comes to me, liking heavier music. However, I truly feel I’ve been inspired by everything I’ve ever heard good or bad. There’s always something you can take away from music.

4. If you could call in any one collaborator to do a song with, who would it be, and why?

Eminem would be my pick. He broke down the barriers in the rap community. Because of what he’s done, no one looks at white rappers sideways. No one cares what ethnicity or sexual identity you are in the rap community. Not to say there’s not still challenges. At some point, I would like to help do the same for the alternative community. You don’t see many women and you definitely don’t see many people of color represented in the alternative space.

5. What is your favorite activity when out of the studio and/or not on tour?  What do you like to do to unwind?

I’ve always loved horses. I find peace in horseback riding. Definitely my favorite activity.

6. How would you describe your music to someone who’d never listened to you before? What is the one comparison a reviewer or fan has made that made you cringe or you disagreed with?

I call it post genre because I have influences from all different types of music genres. I don’t like to put any musician into a box. I believe we are capable of making whatever we want. I personally almost always, will have heavier undertones to anything I’m doing. However I’d also make a pop album, just as quick as I’d make another metal album. I constantly get compared to Straight Line Stitch. It gets played out. Just another reason why there needs to be more diversity in alt spaces.

7. When your band is hanging out together, who cooks, who gets the drinks in, and who is first to crack out the acoustic guitars for a singalong?

I am a solo artist. So mostly all of that is done by myself lol.

8. When was the last time you were starstruck and who was it?

I don’t get starstruck by celebrities. I find them to be humans just like myself. Only time I see that possibly happening, is with Céline Dion because she’s a living icon.

9. What is the best part of being a musician? If you could no longer be a musician for whatever reason, what would be your dream job?

I love getting to travel because I grew up in Indiana. I call it Hell on earth. There’s no opportunities there. So just simply getting to experience something other than potholes, crackheads, and corn is a blessing. If I wasn’t a musician, I would be a therapist or advocate for people on death row. I’m personally strongly against the death penalty.

10. What is one question you have always wanted an interviewer to ask – and what is the answer? Conversely, what question are you tired of answering?

Who do you want to tour with? I’d love the opportunity to tour with Amy Lee or In This Moment. I just appreciate anyone finding me interesting enough to interview. So I’ll never get tired of answering questions.

11. Looking back over your career, is there a single moment or situation you feel was a misstep or you would like to have a “do over,” even if it didn’t change your current situation?

No, I’m a strong believer in everything happens for a reason. Any misstep that has happened during my career was a lesson for me. I wouldn’t be in the position I’m at without those lessons.

12. If you could magically go back in time and be a part of the recording sessions for any one record in history, which would you choose – and what does that record mean to you?

Evanescence “Everybody’s Fool.” I love that song because we live in a time where being vain is applauded. Where people are more concerned about materialistic things than what’s really important. My favorite line is “No flaws, when you’re pretending.” That couldn’t be a more clear more accurate description of the world we live in. Putting on a show for the comfort of others is something I had to learn to not do myself. The more authentic I became, the smaller my circle got. I’ve never been happier. “Without the mask where would you hide. Can’t find yourself. Lost in your lie.”

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