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Meet Ricky Rebel
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Ricky Rebel was 11 years old when he joined No Authority a boy band that was signed by Michael Jackson until he sold the contract to Madonna.
Now Ricky is a solo artist.
To celebrate the launch of the tenth anniversary edition of his Blue Album Ricky meets Michael Millward for a chat on the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation.
Ricky gives Michael an insight into his career, which now extends beyond music to include acting, art and fashion.
The highs include
· Touring with Aaron Carter and Britney Spears.
· Make-up company Mustaev supporting his video for Boys and Sometimes Girls
· Collaborating with an expanding range of high-profile artists
And the lows, which include the fallout from making a political statement on a jackethe wore to the Grammy Awards. He now keeps politics out of his social media.
Ricky explains the inspiration for his work and the artists that have influenced him. He also discusses the importance of making time for yourself, even when you are busy and like a long nights sleep.
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:05
Speaker
Made on Zencastr. Hello and welcome to Rest and Recreation. the Work-Life Balance podcast from Abysida. I'm your host, Michael Millward, the Managing Director of Abysida.
Meet Ricky Rebel and Zencastr
00:00:19
Speaker
Today, I am talking to Ricky Rebel, the singer, songwriter, and freedom advocate. We're going to find out how he spends his rest and recreation time. As the jingle at the start of this podcast says, rest and recreation is made on Zencastr, because Zencastr makes it all so easy.
00:00:41
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Podcast Philosophy and Audience Engagement
00:00:51
Speaker
Now that I have told you how wonderful Zencaster is for making podcasts, we should make one.
00:00:57
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One that will be well worth listening to, liking, downloading and subscribing to. As with every episode of Rest and Recreation, we won't be telling you what to think, but we are hoping to make you think.
Ricky's Journey in Music: From Boy Bands to Independence
00:01:12
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Today's rest and recreation guest is the singer, songwriter and freedom advocate, Ricky Rebel. Ricky is based in California, in Los Angeles, a city I have visited. no one made me a star, so I left.
00:01:27
Speaker
But it's a great city though. If you get the chance to go, you should go. If I do go again, i will be making my travel arrangements with the Ultimate Travel Club because at the Ultimate Travel Club,
00:01:37
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00:01:53
Speaker
Now that I have paid some bills, it is time to say hello to Ricky Rebel. Hello, Ricky. Hello. How are you?
00:02:04
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I am very, very well. Thank you very much. And very excited that I never expected to have someone like Ricky Rebel on my podcast. So I am really, as we say in Yorkshire, I am more than double chuffed and really looking forward to this. Thank you very much for being here.
00:02:19
Speaker
Oh, man, I appreciate that. Thanks for having me. My pleasure. Please, could we start by you giving us a little bit of the backstory of of Ricky Rebel? Sure. When I was a kid, I was signed to Michael Jackson's record label. I was in a boy band called No Authority.
00:02:35
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We toured Europe twice. We opened up for Aaron Carter. At the time, Aaron Carter was like a ah little Beatle. He was very popular. yeah So we had big, big shows.
00:02:46
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but We came back to the States and recorded another album. And Madonna, her label was interested in buying us out of the contract with Michael Jackson's label. So we created an album with Madonna and her label and she dropped it.
00:03:00
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She put us on tour with Britney Spears with the tour bus and
Artistic Control and Philosophical Influences
00:03:03
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everything. it was one of the coolest times of my life. I got to tour with Britney Spears and had an amazing, crazy time.
00:03:11
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How old were you when you were doing these sorts of things? Well, I met the boys in the group when I was just starting out in the industry, like 11 years old. We would meet here and there and rehearse every week together until we were signed.
00:03:25
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Being signed by Michael Jackson is not exactly starting at the bottom of the industry, is it? No, not at all.
00:03:33
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We didn't even really know it was the Michael Jackson at the time when our manager told us, he's like, oh, Michael is at Sony. He likes the record. Michael loves it. We're like, oh, that's cool.
00:03:44
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Great. Michael likes it. Cool. like He's like, yeah, Michael Jackson. We're like, what? Are you kidding me right now? Because I grew up listening to Michael and Madonna, like on a loop.
00:03:57
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Yeah. Just big, big manifestation powers at at a very young age. Yeah. So you were meeting your heroes right from the day one. Yeah. Yeah. I was about 18, 19, 20, around that era and signed at 16.
00:04:11
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And then 9-11 happened and the industry blew up. Perhaps not the right sort of metaphor to use, but. um That was a wrong word to And, you know. you know I love the British humor because you guys catch all of those nuances. I can relate to that because when 9-11 happened, there were all sorts of different industries that were affected.
00:04:37
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And I was working in the travel industry at the time and that industry was really badly affected as you can imagine. And I think it's it's worth reflecting that, you know, it was a terrible time for lots of people in lots of different ways.
00:04:50
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Yeah. It was a bad time for lots of people. Yeah, it was tragic. And then we had a similar thing happen in 2020. I mean, it's similar to the destruction yes of industry, right? It's kind of very similar things that happened. Yeah.
00:05:04
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Life throws us challenges. Yeah. And then we we we have to like evolve and change. And that's what I did. I picked up my guitar and I learned how to produce music the way I wanted to make it.
00:05:16
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I picked up Pro Tools. I started producing my own music. And later on, I had the courage to start releasing it. And I became Ricky Rebel. And is that still with Madonna's record label? Are you releasing it independently? I released him all my music independently on my own
Music as Social Commentary
00:05:31
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label. That is the way to do it nowadays, isn't it?
00:05:33
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yeah Well, yeah, it it is a way. The artist needs to keep as much control as possible. yeah And that is the best way to have ultimate control. Produce your own music, write your own music, yeah release your own music. you You maintain all of the rights, which is great. Yes.
00:05:48
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Yeah, and your music, I have to say, i really like it. I think thank you it's all very catchy. It's all very danceable. And yet a lot of the lyrics are very socially aware as well.
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It's almost like with a message, you're raising issues that perhaps sometimes people find it them difficult to to talk about or hear being talked about. As I was listening to your music, I was thinking, I wonder what influences you would say that you have?
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That's a great question. You know, I really love philosophy. I'm a Sagittarian. I love existentialism. The idea that things don't in life have a meaning, that human beings create meaning, it feels very empowering to me.
00:06:31
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that is You can either look at it like, oh, life is meaningless. Oh, I'm so sad about that. Or life is meaningless and I get the opportunity to and make things mean what I want them to mean. So I've always been that kind of person to question reality and question what is true, what is false, what's real and what's not real and what is meaningful.
00:06:51
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So pursuits like that, philosophy or psychology, Carl, you, um I've studied. And musically, i grew up listening a lot to Madonna and her philosophy of life about expressing yourself and not repressing yourself. That's like number one to me.
00:07:08
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So it's about being honest with yourself as much as with other people as well and expressing how you feel about the world. but Exactly. Exactly. It takes a lot of courage. It takes vulnerability to be that way.
00:07:21
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And I didn't go to high school. I think that kind of helps my freedom mentality and my ability to really not care when when it comes down to pulling the trigger.
00:07:31
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Yeah. so to speak, the artistic trigger. i just don't, there's a part of me it does not care about what people think. I only care about what I want, number one, and what I want to say and and why I want to say it.
00:07:45
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I think it's because I didn't go
Personal Background and Artistic Freedom
00:07:46
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to high school. i didn't yeah and't really have, I was on tour at the time, so I was home homeschooled and I didn't really grow up with that peer pressure.
00:07:55
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I did, however, go through the junior high era, and that's ah apparently the most difficult time adolescence adolesence and school. What are your thoughts? Yeah, i was as you were describing, you I didn't go to high school because I was on tour.
00:08:09
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I was thinking you won't have had any of that sort of process that teenagers go through whilst they're trying to fit in trying to be like everyone else, trying to make sure that they're cool in whatever version of cool that is is cool that week.
00:08:28
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And you won't have had that experience of the bullying that can go with that because you don't fit in with what we're going through at the moment. And I did go to high school and I've been a governor of a high school.
00:08:40
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and So the idea of frenemies is that you can be my friend one week, you can but you're my enemy the following week. And yet you're on tour with a group. So you become um like an individual, but also part a very tight group as well, I should think.
00:08:56
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Yes, right. And the producers were my school, right? The producers and the directors and yeah all all the people in the industry, the camera operators, the yeah lighting people, the stage operators, those people became my schooling and dance.
00:09:11
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Also a lot of dance training. Yeah. my and I've seen the videos. It's not implied to say you're in your forties, I think. That's a secret. you're not supposed to tell. i won't tell. I won't tell. But you're, you are. i feel saved i've i'm proud of it.
00:09:25
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Yeah, and you can still do all the older moves. I can still do backflips. do gymnastics and I think it's because I've kept on my training in the gym, weight training, everything like that. I love to move. It's really important to me.
00:09:43
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and It's also good to stretch. Everybody listening, please stretch and get massages. Very important. You've got to really take care of your body. and um Untie all of those knots in your muscles that are caused by all the stress of life and all those sorts of things.
00:09:57
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Yes, you have to, yeah.
Themes and Industry Challenges
00:09:59
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yeah Some of the ah songs that I've i've heard are quite... um Controversial is not the word to use. You could describe them as controversial if you wanted to.
00:10:11
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But I think they're telling a story about life and life for particular groups of people. Are you telling your own life story in the music that you're your're producing?
00:10:24
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Well, it depends on what song you're talking about. Okay. Well, one of the ones that I think has is got a really catchy, um that's an old phrase to use, showing my age a little bit. oh's One of the ones that gets into your head and just can't get out of it is um Boys and Sometimes Girls. I think that one gets into your head.
00:10:45
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and you can't get it out and i i admit i was in the gym this morning and i could even though the music was in the gym i could hear that in my head and i'm thinking i hope i haven't been singing the lyrics out loud that's honestly my favorite song i've ever written up until now even yeah more than my d personal songs i just feel like that one just really cut through to the bottom line of how I felt and what I was thinking. And it's just a very bold statement. And I think that's why people really like that song.
00:11:17
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I can even now sitting here looking at all the things to do with recording podcasts and I can still see the video. Oh yeah. Strong visual, very strong visuals, catchy rhythm and lyrics that just get into your head.
00:11:30
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Yeah. That video is crazy. It was produced by a rock Jacobs, a really huge like director and that this makeup company hired to for me to do like a music video slash commercial for this Korean line called Must Have. Shout out to Must Have Makeup.
00:11:50
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I'm not working with them anymore, but I still love you guys. Still love you. Thank you for my video. It was great. and It was an amazing video. The choreography is really well done. and I didn't do that choreography. It's all in there. It's ah like a classic sort of pop hit.
00:12:07
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As I was listening to it, I was thinking, like I bet if Pete Burns was still around, he would be wishing that he had recorded that. I love that you said Pete Burns. i I really do love him. The 80s, the new wave, the romantic era, as as we were talking about, is is definitely something that i love.
00:12:25
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Depeche Mode. ye I listen to a lot of Depeche Mode. That's probably on top of like Michael, Madonna, and Bowie. Depeche Mode is like ah my my favorite band of all time. i think Depeche Mode are bigger outside of the UK than they are in the UK.
00:12:39
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Really? That's fascinating. Yeah, there's all sorts of success internationally. Successful in the UK, but we're blessed in the UK with a wide array of global brands.
00:12:51
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Oh, definitely. Yeah. The best. Oh, I hope so. I hope so. I love my yeah UK producers. I've worked with a few. Yeah. The late Gary Miller, who did a lot of the Spice Girls and Donna Summer and countless, countless disco acts.
00:13:05
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He died recently, but he worked on a few of my songs. He did American Rebel with me. He co-produced that with me. He did this really cool song called Preacher, which I'm really proud of. I love that song. Yes.
00:13:16
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I like that one. That's a bit bit slower. Yeah. He helped me add the bells and whistles and fine tuned the production and mixed it. And he was, he was yeah British and he had that humor always made me laugh. Hated Trump. good stuff Well, let's talk about the president of the United States, Donald Trump, because you've caused a bit of a controversy with some of your wardrobe choices that featured Mr. Trump. Did i I don't remember that at all.
00:13:47
Speaker
Really? No. Wow. It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. Let's put it that way. I'm glad that part of my life is over. I call it the the American rebel era.
00:13:59
Speaker
Right. And the reason why I'm so glad it's over is because politics is really divisive, just like religion. mean, you bring up religion, you're going to make enemies, right? And you bring up bring up politics, you're going to automatically make enemies.
00:14:13
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Right. Difference of opinions. It really is. I'm right. You're wrong. It's about stakes in the ground and I'm not going to move. Yeah. I live with a doctor in psychology.
00:14:24
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We've been together for 13 years. And one of the things that this person told me was that he really feels that me being bullied, you know, you mentioned not being bullied. I was bullied as a kid in junior high and all my you know elementary school era and whatnot.
00:14:39
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It had an effect on me more than I think that I allow myself cognitively to be aware of. And the reason why I bring that up is because the industry during the no authority era, you know, and and beyond that and in the 2000s, really tried hard to put me in the in the closet.
00:15:00
Speaker
And they told us, they they sat us down and they said, you know, you can't be gay, openly gay and successful at the same time. You guys, whatever your sexuality is, you need to hide that and you need to be all about the girls, girls, girls, period.
00:15:13
Speaker
And it's going to affect the brand. It's going to affect everything. We we could be dropped from the label, things like that. Conversations like that. At the time, i'm I'm personally bisexual. I'm attracted to women and men.
00:15:25
Speaker
So I wasn't even interested in guys that much as in that era. I had girlfriends and I just felt it was just this bullying of you got to look strong. You got to look manly or or as masculine as you possibly can.
00:15:40
Speaker
Right. Right. and And then same thing happened after that when I was doing more acting and, you know, oh, you're too feminine for the role. You're too this, that, that. So just, I had one guy ah during my recording session, throw me into the the vocal booth, lock the door and had this guy reading scripture over the, you know, the earphones telling me that I'm going to hell and reading scripture and and making sure that I know why I'm going to hell and what the, what it says in the Bible.
00:16:08
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So that made me want to rebel. Yeah.
00:16:12
Speaker
Understandably so. I wanted to kick that mother effing door down real hard and I wanted to prove that you can be yourself and succeed at the same
Diverse Opinions and Artistic Identity
00:16:21
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time. Good. Cut to 2015, 2016, the era, the cancel culture era that we lived through and are currently, I think we're getting out of it now.
00:16:33
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We're getting out of the cancel culture era. And also the, oh gosh, I'm going to say it, the Trump era, right? Same thing happened with the industry when I started to talk openly about, oh, well, I think it's a good idea if we X, Y, Z. I don't think that's such a bad thing.
00:16:49
Speaker
Or what this person is saying, I agree with on this and this and this. And then I had people telling me, oh, you can't agree with him. You can't agree with him. What do you... You're going to lose your your career.
00:17:01
Speaker
your Everything you worked hard for will be destroyed. Everything. And I won't work with you if you talk about that. I'm like, and these are just simple views that I intrinsically cannot change. Like there's a part of me, i'm a um I'm a capitalist. I'm a hard worker. I'm a, if you don't like Starbucks, make your own coffee and start Starbucks yourself kind of person. Yep.
00:17:25
Speaker
Right. I'm like, follow the law guy. I love the constitution because it protects me guy. i want a gun to protect myself from people who are crazy and have a gun. I'm that guy.
00:17:36
Speaker
And there's nothing that's going to really change that. Maybe you could, maybe I could, I could be open-minded. I'm very, I'm a very open-minded person. And see, that's the thing is like, I'm incredibly liberal as you can see with my music and my art and my fashion.
00:17:50
Speaker
And I just felt like i was playing put into the closet once again. and I was thrown in there and be like, hey, if you do that, we're not going to be your friend. I lost so many friends, so many people who I think really judged me for it. Understandably so.
00:18:05
Speaker
Anytime you align yourself with a group of people, there's going to be things about that group of people that you completely disagree with or that human being. There's things that that person has done that I'm like, I don't agree with that.
00:18:17
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And I don't like that. But I like all of these other, i like a lot of other things. So does that make sense? It makes an awful lot of sense. ah What I think you're saying is that we need to look at individuals as individuals.
00:18:29
Speaker
And yeah, if you are an American person and then you would see the constitution as being what protects your way of life. I can totally get that because I see things about the UK and our monarchy, et cetera, et cetera, is like that. It is the same thing for me. Right.
00:18:48
Speaker
right And, it's It's part of our way of life. We look at things based upon how we are brought up, the country that we live in, the culture that we have, and yet we're all individuals. What you're saying, I think, is that if we try and put labels on people because of one piece of information, then we are going to be misjudging and devaluing that individual.
00:19:13
Speaker
We need to take people as a whole and we need to be much more welcoming of difference because the difference is what makes life so interesting. Beautiful.
00:19:24
Speaker
Beautifully said. If difference is cruel, then we need to act to remove the cruelty. yeah If we we can't talk about freedom and then tell people what they can and cannot do, unless that what they're wanting to do breaks the law.
00:19:38
Speaker
Yep. And if it's violent. Yeah. No violence. Yeah. If you live in a country where you have freedom of speech, freedom of expression, then that is freedom of expression, freedom of speech for everyone.
00:19:51
Speaker
We can be offended, but we choose to be offended by someone else's views. That's fine, but it doesn't change who the individual is. You're talking about that era.
00:20:02
Speaker
I lived through the Brexit era in the UK. Some of my best friends viewed that campaign completely differently to me. Got it. right we We both had our say.
00:20:13
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One was on one side, one was on the other side. It's done. It's dusted. You move on. That's democracy. Absolutely. And could you imagine not being friends with somebody who disagreed with you on? Oh, it makes life so interesting. have a good disagreement. In my opinion, all of these things are very trivial.
00:20:30
Speaker
It's just the things that we cannot control. i can't happen what's I can't control what's happening in Israel and Gaza. I can't control anything about ah so many factors of our lives that we cannot control.
00:20:40
Speaker
you can You can control how you treat the people. who are around you. We can't control that. Yes. And the people we love. and to And I wrote a song called Friends, which is really an important song for me.
00:20:53
Speaker
And a lot of people resonated with it, talking about how hard it was for me to lose my so-called friends, people that I've been friends with for ah very long time.
00:21:05
Speaker
We got in a spat one time or two times and it was over. They just didn't want to be my friend anymore. And That was very, very difficult for me. You know, going on the Grammys, the red carpet, like I think I was the number four most Googled Latino on the planet at the time.
00:21:23
Speaker
It was crazy. My tutor was popping. It was crazy. And so much like hatred and a ton of love beyond imagination, love. And Ricky, you're so courageous and brave and It was just this juxtaposition of emotion that was a lot to handle, to say least.
00:21:48
Speaker
and i'm And I'm glad I'm done with it. i really and I shouldn't really even be talking about it. But the end of the I think it's super important because I feel safe with you. Thank you. That we can. And honestly, Michael, I don't regret anything. i had to live through what I had to live through in order to come to the conclusion that I have come to today.
00:22:07
Speaker
And I'd like to share it with everyone, what I've realized. Yes, I appreciate that. And it's very blunt and it's very corporate. Ricky Rebel is a product.
00:22:18
Speaker
Okay. I am like a Coke can and I give my product to the people. My product is music. It's art. It's fashion. It's fun. It's sexy and maybe sexual. Okay.
00:22:32
Speaker
I give a product, a feeling, a vibe. And on my Coke can, I do not want to put a MAGA sticker on my Coke can. That would ruin my Coke can. And I do not want to put ah Black Lives Matter sticker on my Coke can. Nobody wants to buy the Coke with those stickers on it.
00:22:47
Speaker
Okay, we want the Coke. That is what I learned. And I am delivering now the product 100% on my socials. You'll see I avoid politics 100% because I know that at me at my best for humanity, that's what I can, that is who I am.
00:23:07
Speaker
That, I mean, that is the best that I can offer is how to have fun with your life and how to be yourself and how to express yourself without fear. And all of the, the politics is just not, it's just a, it's a really easy way to divide humanity. And I want to unite.
00:23:23
Speaker
Yeah. That's brilliant. That's it. Not very corporate at all, I don't think, but I think it is beautiful. Thank you, sir. And you're out there making music. You're doing all sorts of things with art and fashion and all those sorts of things. But how does so Ricky Rebel spend his leisure time?
00:23:37
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Sex. hello
00:23:42
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to Make the most of it. You're getting older now. Exactly. i mean, we time is ticking, baby. Connect. um It honestly is a great way, a stress reliever for me.
00:23:54
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i also, ah work out. yeah That really relieves a lot of stress for me. i get massages like we were talking about. stretch a lot. You know, you got that foam roller. Do you have a foam roller at home? I have a foam roller which vibrates.
00:24:08
Speaker
Oh, that's perfect. yeah Yeah. I got my little foam roller routine.
Leisure and Well-being
00:24:13
Speaker
i really should meditate more. i think that's a very, very important thing to do.
00:24:20
Speaker
For me, meditation can happen in any moment, any time. I'll just close my eyes and get into the stillness. But I don't really relax that much. If you know me, my day-to-day life, ah I work a lot. I like to stay active.
00:24:35
Speaker
um I do sleep very well, though. I'll tell you that. I love to sleep. I get nine hours at least, minimum. Wow. Eight to nine every night, unless i'm I'm working or if I'm going out to an event or a concert or something, I'll go to bed at 4 a.m.
00:24:51
Speaker
and I'll wake up really early and then the next day I'll just go to sleep. It sounds like you've got your version of rest and recreation sorted in a way that works for you.
00:25:01
Speaker
I think so. i think if I meditated more, i used to study transcendental meditation with a ah practitioner of it who was actually Michael Jackson's practitioner. He taught Michael Jackson how she taught Michael Jackson how meditate in this way.
00:25:18
Speaker
I love it. And if I am really stressed out and life is going out of control, i automatically go into my mantra and repeat my mantra over and over again. And it gets me into this really peaceful place. And one time when I was a kid and I was doing it like 20 minutes in the morning, 20 minutes at night, I started astral projecting. I'm not kidding. I started like getting out of my body and starting to see the room without opening my eyes.
00:25:47
Speaker
And that's when I was like, you know what? I think we're done with this for a minute. I started to get i started to get really uncomfortable. You like to be in control a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a control freak.
00:26:00
Speaker
So when my body and I so i literally cause started seeing the room and and my grandma in the other room, I could kind of see her. And I was like, oh, this is not I don't want to do this.
00:26:11
Speaker
Kind of freaked me out. Yeah, but it sounds like, like I say, you've got your life where you want it to be at the moment and you've worked out ah way of resting and recreation that works for you. Yeah.
Reflections and Closing Remarks
00:26:24
Speaker
It has been a really great talking to you about it and finding out more about your career and the way in which you have brought things together and learning from things that you have done as well.
00:26:35
Speaker
So it's it's not mistakes that you've made. i would I would never describe them as a mistake because you haven't. And i think that you've done what was important to you at different times in your life and career, and then have learned from all of those experiences. And that has empowered you to do more of what is important to you. Very good.
00:26:54
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Very good. You're very smart. Yeah, it's been brilliant. I really appreciate the time today. i know that it's been really great fun. After listening to the music and now talking to the man that has created it, and it's brought the music a little, it's added something to the music and I really appreciate that. That's beautiful.
00:27:14
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Thank you for giving me that opportunity. Thank you very much. It's great. Before you go though, yeah is there anything on the artistic side of Ricky Rebel that is coming up that people need to know about?
00:27:24
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Yeah, people need to know that the the album that the Boys and Sometimes Girls record is on, it's called The Blue Album. That's available on Spotify right now. But in August 22nd, my album, my new album is out. The Blue Album 10th Anniversary Edition is out.
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And I've included eight songs that I've tucked away and I've realized like they need to be released. They need to be heard and they're out. It's out now.
00:27:51
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So please check that out. The Blue Album 10th Anniversary Edition. We will put a link in the description. Perfect. Thank you very much. Thank you. It's been great. Thank you. Absolutely. I am Michael Millward, Managing Director of Abusida, and in this episode of Rest and Recreation, I have been having a conversation with Ricky Rebel.
00:28:12
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You can find out more about both of us at abusida.co.uk. There's a link in the description, along with links to Ricky's own websites and places where you can purchase his music and his art.
00:28:25
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Until the next episode of Rest and Recreation, thank you for listening and goodbye.