Johnny Drille talks waiting 5 years to drop debut album and more in Audiomack interview

Nigerian singer and songwriter, Johnny Drille is quickly becoming a household name amongst music lovers in the country.

The Mavin records artiste recently sat down with Audiomack to discuss his career so far. He also discussed his debut album, Before We Fall Asleep.

On why he chose this name, he said,

“So Before We Fall Asleep can be paraphrased to mean “Before we run out of time.” I wanted to play on that in the sense of running out of time and doing all the important things you need to do while you still can. If you need to apologize to someone, if you need to take that step, do that thing you always wanted to do. Tell someone you love them before your clock runs out. So “Before We Fall Asleep” plays on that essence of time, and doing everything while you can.”

On why it took so long for the album to be released,

“I’m a perfectionist, which is both a blessing and a curse. The blessing being that the quality of my music always stays there, but at the same time, people don’t need too much to impress them. The kind of ears artists would listen to music [with] is different from the ears the average audience would use.

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Here and there I was stuck in my perfectionist self, and I think it all worked well for the album. However, at some point, I just let go. I don’t think I got to a place where I felt like the album was perfect—I just felt like it was good enough. I also wanted to be able to move past this point as an artist to know that people could go to my artist profile and see an album. To pass that point, and to be able to now do anything I want musically.”

To read the full audiomack interview with Johnny Drille, click here