OC3ANEYES Fish Feels Interview

Fish Feels Will Put You in the Feels

Shari Tolcher known as OC3ANEYES is an electro-pop-rapper from Adelaide, South Australia. Her name originating from Billie Eilishs hit song "Ocean Eyes". She started rapping in 2009 and later started music classes; connected to Northern Sound System in 2016. This gave her the opportunity to work alongside N1 Records with her music.

With sounding and inspiration of Mallrat, Allday, Billie Eilish and Oh Boy. From this she began collaborating, working and writing with artists such as MANE, Strict face, Naomi Keytes , Mario späte and K21. Further into the future Tolcher hopes to dominate the festival scene with her first two singles "Frozen Coke" and "Fish Feels" both produced by Mario Späte.

Fish Feels is a song that holds stories of so many scenarios that would happen to the youth in Adelaide whenever someone held a house party. It describes a love scene that gets almost destroyed because I felt alone when my significant other would replace me at these parties with random strangers.

OC3ANEYES has had success in the local music scene with her debut single "Frozen Coke" reaching 40,000 streams on Spotify and performances at HQ complex, Scouted 2019 and opening for ChillinIt at Northern Sound System.

Interview with OC3ANEYES

Question: How would you describe your music? br>
OC3ANEYES: I'd describe my music as a collective of emotion and continue vibing. It's all dependable on moods and aura of people around me.


Question: Can you tell us about Fish Feels? br>
OC3ANEYES: Fish Feels is a song about a party I went too and got the vibe that the person I went with didn't really want to be there with just me. It was like they came too be with the people I was around and the fun but I was just the accessory.


Question: Do you prefer performing live or recording? br>
OC3ANEYES: I love both but performing love conquers all, I get the energy from everyone around me and get to meet a lot of people through my music.


Question: If you could have anyone, in the world, attend a show, who would it be? br>

OC3ANEYES: I would honestly have a toss-up between Mallrat and Billie Eilish herself.


Question: What is the story behind the band name? br>
OC3ANEYES: The story behind my name OC3ANEYES is purely Billie Eilish; she's a big influence on me and has been from the start; listening too oceaneyes itself at a young age was what started everything for me.


Question: What motivates you most when writing music? br>
OC3ANEYES: My biggest motivation is that I know there's someone out there who will like it. Or I know there's someone out there who doesn't think they can do it so I just want them to see me doing what I can do that it pushes themselves.


Question: Which music/artists are you currently listening to? br>
OC3ANEYES: I'm really big on Billie Eilish and Mallrat but I have a lot of the Front Bottoms and Girl In Red on repeat right now.


Question: What or who was your inspiration to go into the music industry? br>
OC3ANEYES: Yet again Billie Eilish is my biggest inspiration alongside my friend Devlin who passed away in 2016 he always told me to push myself musically and that he would be there so it's kind of like I'm doing it for us both.


Question: If you could collaborate with another artist, who would it be? br> OC3ANEYES: I would love to make a song with Mallrat because I think there's a lot of connection musically.


Interview by Brooke Hunter