As soon as we start the call, I tell Chloe Styler I've been listening to her music on the way home and avoiding my feelings. She laughs, quick and bright. "Yeah, immediately no to all feelings."
That's the weave-in. We're chatting like old friends before the kettle's even boiled. Chloe tells me she's been working with a movement coach, building confidence and comfort onstage. "I know how to stand there and play and sing a song, but I want to just, like, give it 110 per cent."
BIGSOUND is her pulling force. "Every day I'm doing something to get me ready for it. I don't know if that's dramatic, but I'm really putting my all into it."
Then there's the part that slips under the skin. "I am a catastrophising kind of person. I mean, that's why I'm a songwriter, because then I can put it in songs." Her lyrics aren't plucked from thin air; they're torn straight from her journal.
Talking about her track 'Call It', she says "that one's very like. . . I got it off my chest in half an hour, and it's everything I wanted to say to an actual person that exists, but instead of doing that, I blocked him on the internet because I don't want to deal with my emotions."
She laughs, but there's truth in it. "All of these songs mean something very special and deep to me, but they're not unique to me – heartbreak, love, relationships, that's universal."
On socials, Chloe claims her love language is breakup songs. In real life? It's quality time. "I did try for a little bit to steer away from breakup songs, but why? It's my truth, and it's what I'm going through in my 20s."
Chloe lights up talking about her recent trip to Nashville. "Everybody just congregates there, no matter what genre you are. That's the most inspiring thing for me.
"I like to push the boundaries when it comes to genre because I listen to all types of music. It should just be an expression of yourself. Nashville inspires that."
Her new single 'Push & Pull' dropped last Friday. "It was written in Nashville, so it was born there, and now it's coming to life here."
Album thoughts are circling, too. "I've been doing this for six, seven years, two EPs, and I have a lot to say now. I was always so scared to do an album because I felt like I hadn't lived enough."
At one point I mishear a 'Push & Pull' lyric and spiral into my own meaning. Chloe lets me ramble, then gently reels me back. Giving me the real meaning as I stood still in my old shoes.
"So, when you have big shoes to fill for someone else – you realise, I can't fill anyone else's shoes. I have to handle this. That's where 'standing in my own shoes' came from; and yeah, I can picture every outfit I ever wore with the man that song's about."
She's ready to celebrate, to be present; and if you give her your ears, she'll push you right out of your head and into your feelings. Chloe Styler isn't here to be a cookie cutter. She's here for connection – and trust me, she's worth your quality time.
Chloe Styler 2025 Tour Dates
Fri 23 Aug - Distillery Road Market (Brisbane)Thu 28 Aug - Mo's Desert Clubhouse (Gold Coast)* supporting Kingswood
Fri 29 Aug - Live & Local @ Gold Coast Show
Sun 31 Aug - The Outpost (Brisbane)* supporting Darcie Haven
Tue 2 Sep - Ric's Backyard @ BIGSOUND (Brisbane)
Wed 3 Sep - Brunswick Street Mall Stage @ BIGSOUND (Brisbane)
Wed 3 Sep - Honky Tonks @ BIGSOUND (Brisbane)
