Is Gallereah Doing Interviews?
Hi, welcome to my first real blog post under my brand that I’ve created. It’s October 7th 11:41 am.
The idea for me to start a blog was more of a just-go-with-it kind of thing. I do not think I’m the best writer ever, but I can write better than I can do math (despite counting money at the club every weekend). I’m a good writer.
My name is Reah (My real name is Deboreah and I love when people call me by my real name but Reah is fine. I extra love when people call me Gallereah, it’s so cute.). I work in marketing at my 9-5 and live a double life, working for promoters at different clubs in Baltimore City. I’ve been a “door-girl” since 2020 and I give that half of my life lots of credit for the relationships I’ve gained and exposure because I’m shy.
In 2020, I started “Gallereah”, interviewing local music artists. I loved that for awhile, but struggled to keep it going. I wish I had an answer for that, but I don’t. I just stopped loving it. But I decided to use this first blog to explore why I stopped loving a thing that once checked lots of boxes for me…
I decided to do music interviews at the time, hoping to blend my personal passions with my career, an idea that I promised myself when I got my bachelor’s degree. But the personal part took over LMAO I LOVE BALTIMORE—being from here and being with my people here, but I couldn’t market it impartially. I didn’t know how to paint us in a light that sold well without lying. Not because it isn’t possible, I just wasn’t a marketing GOAT yet. Now that I’m saying this out loud, I couldn’t sell us to ourselves—that was the problem, at least for me. Baltimore is a tough customer, but also, if you make it here you can make it anywhere. The big artists here were challenging for me to get to at the time, and, some were completely unreliable or just didn’t know how to read the room. I even did artist management for a short, short period.
Don’t get me wrong, all the artists were a complete joy to work with; I truly believe in them and their talent (still do). But fear of “not doing it right” or them having stains on their own brand, them going away, or a whole bunch of other irrational, make-believe events ran me away from doing interviews. Perfection paralysis. It was not aesthetically pleasing, my social media strategy sucked, I was doing it alone, and I just didn’t like how it looked, nor had the budget to make it what I wanted.
So now I’m here 5 years later, still loving culture, music, and fashion. That doesn’t go away.
Welcome to this new thing. Don’t ask me a bunch of questions because I don’t know yet. This is a platform that is pushing out all the things that I think are cool, not only interviews. I have no idea what it looks like, I don’t even know what it’s called. Can I cuss on here?
This first blog is dedicated to my line sister Jakari (cheers to doing what we want because why not), the Western HS English department for jumping me in, and the writers at my job, specifically Lisa E. who just retired from us. Thank you, Lisa, for editing and cheerleading my first byline and sparking my writing career. You let me know there is a lane for those who talk too much, especially if you’re good at it, and that the only way to get better at it is to just do it. I don’t know if anybody from my job will see this. If ya’ll want to read my article, here it is.