Singer Omar Apollo Gets Candid: Loyalty, Religion and Leaving Social Media
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00:00Are you ever frustrated about being sensitive or considering it allows you to make such resonant music?
00:09Do you consider it more sort of like now a superpower?
00:13Yeah, I definitely have seen it as something that propelled me into exactly the life I want to live.
00:19So I'm grateful for my sensitivity, although it's like a burden at times.
00:24It's hard to tell what's autobiographical, what's inspired and what's really you when we're listening to this.
00:31And I know that that is intentional.
00:33So can you tell us as a gay male tourist, what you are like as a friend and a lover?
00:39I am, I think, a friend of like the highest.
00:44I'm a really great friend.
00:47Like if you're my friend, I will be there.
00:50I'm flying out, I'm showing up.
00:54I'm there, you can call me.
00:56The phone is always on.
00:59If I'm not your friend, then that's like...
01:02What was the other one?
01:04A lover.
01:05A gay male tourist is a lover.
01:07Oh my God, I hate being a gay male tourist lover.
01:11It's too much.
01:12I feel like we're too much.
01:16And as a lover, I guess, I think, you know, with God said no, I kind of let it consume me.
01:27I kind of let it like bleed into everything I do and speak and say.
01:31And like, it was very, I mean, I'm very loyal.
01:36And I like to believe in people.
01:38I like to, you know, have that, you know, I have to give people chances.
01:42And, you know, sometimes it's like it is what it is and it ain't what it ain't for me.
01:49You're talking about loyalty.
01:51But when we get to Life's Unfair, I feel like you are airing out some laundry about tourists who are supposed to be billed as loyal.
02:00What's going on there?
02:01I wasn't cheating.
02:03I saw somebody say that song was about cheating.
02:05It's not about cheating.
02:07I've never cheated in my life.
02:09Put that on the record.
02:11Anyways, so basically that song was about me falling in love with a religious boy.
02:23And he couldn't be with me for that reason.
02:27So then when I was into another relationship, I felt like I was like still tethered to that one because we had to change our dynamic.
02:35We had to change a lot of things to be able to maintain a type of relationship.
02:42It was messy.
02:44So I said Life's Unfair.
02:45So, yeah, that was like that was like an interesting thing to talk about because it was like, you know, in the community, you know, there's the DLs.
02:55They're outside.
02:56They know me.