Teen singer/songwriter
with boatload of talent looking to ride his flow into a career
By Kurt Beyers
“TikTok” is the
latest shot in the campaign of Tamas Bulla, 15-year-old singer/songwriter, to
make a career in music.
The rap beat is
where his “flow” is now, and he hopes the stream will take him from New Jersey
to California. And he is having some fun with it.
“TikTok,” for
instance. It has a thumping trap beat and lyrics that are, essentially, a
complaint to his manager that he has been working too hard. A fun kind of beach
video goes with it.
“My manager was
telling me like how I need to post TikTok videos,” he said. “I wasn’t really
posting that much because I was, like, over it. I was in the shower after
getting out of the jacuzzi, and I started singing,‘I just needed a break from
the TikTok,’ and then I just went off of there.”
Yeah
I been I been I been gone
Walking
through these streets with my shades on
I
just needed a break
From
the TikTok
With that
beginning, the track turns into a story about a day with his girlfriend. He
likes to tell stories in his tracks.
“I find the
beat I like, and then I just say stuff or play the beat on loop until I find
something to say, and I try to make it about my life or something that people
can relate to.”
His turn to rap
is recent. He has released seven songs since late last year, starting in the
pop lane with the first three songs. The first two, “Out of Time” and “Shower
Thoughts,” are original. The third, “Love Again,” was a cover of a Kid LaRoi
song.
“I just
recorded it for practice, but then my manager liked it, and he wanted me to put
it out.”
All three are
different examples of pop. His experiments with rap began with the fourth song,
“Roll With Me,” a rap ballad. Next came “With You,” a bitter-sweet pop love
song with a definite rap drumbeat.
“I was still
trying to stay with that kind of poppy singing vibe, but I was trying to
transition into this hip hop/rap kind of stuff.”
Then came
“Spain,” rap with Mediterranean strings in the melody over the rap drums, and
now “TikTok.”
“I’m trying to
discover what’s best for me, and what people like the most,” he said. “I don’t
go into the studio and have multiple writers working. At most, like ‘With You’
and ‘TikTok,’ I had my manager on a FaceTime call writing the song with me. I
write all my songs, and I record everything by myself.”
He usually works
on five songs at a time. Blocked on one, he starts another or switches back and
forth. “It depends on how I feel about the song.”
The stories do
not emerge from the beats.
“I just look
for that flow that I have,” he said. “If a beat has my type of flow that I can
write good lyrics on, then that’s most likely the beat that I would choose.”
He wants to
make a career out of music and has since his parents gave him a guitar at age 5.
He learned how to play it, the piano and drums.
Tamas is a part of a large Hungarian community in the region around his
hometown in New Jersey, and he has sung at annual Hungarian festivals and at
other ceremonies and celebrations.
“I know that I want
to make a career out of music. I used to street perform, and I’ve played in
bars, but, obviously, I want something way bigger than that. I just don’t know
what type of career.”
He doesn’t have
a specific goal right now. “I’m just trying to get it out there, trying to see
what type of people or what type of music people want to listen to from me. And
I’m still trying to figure out which type of music fits me as a person.”
From a purely
listening standpoint, he has handled extremely well the different things he has
tried so far.
More music is
coming, and an exodus to California is a possibility, which would include leaving
school to study for a GED.
“I can’t
imagine myself sitting in school for another three years of my life, knowing
that I can be outside having fun making music.”
“TikTok” is a
step in that direction. If he builds enough of an audience, he said, “My
parents would consider it.”
His music has
the power to draw a following. Connect with Tamas Bulla on all platforms for
new music, videos, and social posts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2bGnj4UBZQ
https://music.amazon.com/artists/B0BPK5SK3K/tamas-bulla
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5pJ8r7OKiRU38yZp6xMK2c
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsdC_bb_GNdMTTjg2HjEAvg
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