HALF OF ME STILL WITH YOU by Guyver7x3 (Interview 2026)

Edition Seventy-Four – Week Seventy-Four; Unit 2:

Written by: Mercedes Barreto

Introduction

Music can be a way of documenting what happens around us, but it can also become a window into what happens within us. For Minneapolis-based pop artist Guyver7x3, a growing catalog of releases suggests an artist interested in exploring both sides of that equation.

Throughout 2026, Guyver7x3 has released a remarkably diverse series of singles, including “Throw The Dice,” “Ghost In The Static,” “Last Breath,” “FLAMES OF DESIRE,” “THE SIGNAL IS STILL BREATHING,” and “Thinking Again.” Other titles, including “I Still Feel You,” “Imperfect,” “Stay/Fade,” “Feeling Dissipates,” and “MISHEARING THE DEFINING MOMENT,” point toward a more introspective side of the project, touching on memory, relationships, identity, and internal experience.

That combination of outward energy and inward reflection gives Guyver7x3 an intriguing artistic identity. Rather than appearing confined to a single subject or emotional perspective, the project continually explores different ideas, moods, and experiences through music. With an active stream of new material emerging throughout the year, Guyver7x3 is building a catalog that invites listeners to look beyond an individual song and discover the larger story developing across the project.

In this interview, we explore the origins of Guyver7x3, the inspiration behind the music, the stories and emotions hidden within the songs, the creative process, and the vision behind this rapidly developing artistic project.

Short Review

Guyver7x3 is an intriguing emerging pop project because of its willingness to explore a wide range of emotional territory. The 2026 catalog moves between titles suggesting desire, uncertainty, reflection, connection, isolation, and perseverance, creating the impression of an artist using music as an ongoing form of exploration.

Songs such as “Throw The Dice” and “Ghost In The Static” offer one side of the project’s identity, while tracks including “I Still Feel You,” “Imperfect,” and “Stay/Fade” suggest something more intimate and reflective.

What stands out most is the sheer sense of movement. Guyver7x3 isn’t presenting a project that feels static; new material continues to appear, giving listeners the opportunity to follow the artist’s creative development in real time. That ongoing evolution may ultimately become one of the project’s defining qualities.

Q&A

For readers discovering Guyver7x3 for the first time, how would you describe yourself and your music?

“I’m a psychological and emotional artist more than I am a genre-specific musician. I don’t normally begin by deciding, “I’m going to make an electronic song,” or an R&B song, or a rock song. I start with an emotion, a psychological state, or sometimes something I can feel but don’t completely have language for yet.

Then I follow what that emotion does.

If it hesitates, the music can hesitate. If it fractures, the production can fracture. If something is being held back, you should be able to hear that pressure in the vocal, rhythm, bass, or even in what suddenly disappears.

That’s probably the simplest way I can describe Guyver7x3:

I translate what emotions become.

Because of that, my music can move through electronic, alternative, R&B, rock, cinematic, experimental, glitch, 8-bit, or other sounds without me feeling like I changed identities. The genre can change. The emotional identity underneath it doesn’t.”

Where did the name Guyver7x3 come from, and what does it represent to you?

“Guyver7x3 eventually became much bigger to me than just an artist name.

The part that matters most now is what the identity represents: transformation without replacement.

That idea has become fundamental to the way I create. Something can inherit from what came before it, change because of what it experiences, fracture, rebuild itself, and become something new without erasing where it originated.

That is very close to how I understand both people and music.

Guyver7x3 became the identity that gave me permission to keep evolving without having to abandon the earlier versions of myself. Every stage leaves something behind for the next one to inherit.

So today, when I see that name, I don’t just see an alias.

I see an evolving system.”

You are based in Minneapolis. How has your environment or the Minneapolis music scene influenced your creative identity?

“Being based in Minneapolis gives me an interesting relationship with musical identity because this is a city with a history of artists who weren’t afraid to cross boundaries.

But I think my relationship with my environment is also somewhat internal. I’ve never wanted to make music simply because that is what the scene around me says I should sound like.

If anything, being here reinforced the idea that individuality matters.

I’m interested in what happens when you stop asking where a song belongs and start asking whether the song is emotionally telling the truth.

That independence has become a major part of Guyver7x3. I can take influence from what surrounds me without allowing the environment to decide what I become.”

What originally inspired you to begin making music?

“It started with needing somewhere for emotion to go.

Music gave me a way of expressing things that I couldn’t always explain correctly in ordinary language. Sometimes the emotion existed before I understood what it meant.

That became important because eventually I realized I wasn’t only writing about emotions. I was interested in capturing their behavior.

One of the earliest songs that really made me recognize that was “Real Me.” The emotion was extremely raw. Looking back, I can hear an earlier version of what I’m building now. I didn’t have all of the terminology or systems yet, but the instinct was already there.

Over time I started studying my own process: why a vocal crack affected me, why hesitation could communicate more than another lyric, why an instrumental continuing after a voice disappeared could feel like the emotion itself was still alive.

The more I learned, the less interested I became in making music that simply sounded good.

I wanted to understand why it felt alive.”

Where can we hear more, and why should we?

“You can find Guyver7x3 through my growing catalog online, including my SoundCloud presence and the places where my music and creative work continue to expand.

But I think the better question is why someone should keep listening after the first song.

Because the songs are connected by an evolving creative identity.

You might hear one track that feels intimate and almost exposed, another that becomes heavily electronic, another that pulls toward R&B, cinematic music, glitch, rock, or something that doesn’t fit comfortably into one category.

That movement is intentional.

You’re not only hearing finished songs. You’re hearing an artist gradually discovering a language for something that existed emotionally before the language did.

If you listen chronologically, you can actually hear that evolution happening.”

Anything to add here?

“There is one thing I would want people to understand about Guyver7x3:

The imperfections are not mistakes I’m trying to hide.

A breath, a hesitation, an unstable note, a vocal crack, a rhythm that suddenly loses certainty—those things can contain information.

A huge part of my work has become learning not to polish the humanity out of music.

That eventually led me to develop my own creative frameworks for understanding how emotion can move through an entire production. Instead of treating the vocal, drums, bass, synths, silence, and effects as separate layers, I started treating them as participants in the same psychological event.

The production doesn’t simply accompany the performer.

It studies, inherits, and continues the performer.

And I think that connects to something much larger than production technique.

Identity fractures.
Identity inherits.
Identity expresses.
Identity reaches its limits.
And what comes out of that becomes the beginning of the next version.

That cycle is Guyver7x3.

The music is just where you can hear it happening.”