![]() I just want to make music that feels good to me. ![]() couldn’t have been more accommodating with the mutual agreement, which I’m really thankful for because it would’ve been a nightmare if they forced me to stay under that umbrella indefinitely.Īnything that you’re making post-Warner all belongs to you, correct?Įverything I made pre-Warner - which is the crazy stuff from 2013 - and the stuff that I’m making now is all me.ĭoes that make you feel good that you’re back doing things on your own? I hope so. It seemed like they would just assume that I was going to do this very clean-cut, very specific genre of music that was going to be very watered down, generic, and overly accessible to the point of not having any specificity in it at all, and obviously, that’s just not where I came from. ![]() I had three different albums that I wanted to make with three different kinds of concepts, and each time it would just get because there was a regime change every year and a half. I think in the major label system I still was able to do what I really wanted to do, but there was a lot more pressure to really just take the edges off and that was a little bit tough. I was really focused on crafting the lyrics really focused on painting the picture of feeling lost and not feeling like you had a direction - feeling a little bit aimless. wanted to make it a really lyrical album. 2013 I started putting out, and then when I got into album mode I basically wanted to channel a similar rawness, but I kind of took away all the ambient stuff and made it more in the background, and made my voice more front and center. You don’t really have that much support, and you feel like you don’t really fit into a conventional music industry box.Ģ012. It was really tough for me to be able to reconcile with just mental health and feeling like, if you were going through depression, but then at the same time you’re living in a very small space and you’re claustrophobic and you’re a little bit on your own. There were a lot of just - I was not really met with a lot of support, so everything was such a challenge - and being in New York, too, near the tail end. When I first started, I was a really angry person on the inside. It feels like this project is the best version of myself. How are you feeling about your sound and how it’s evolved? That’s the idea that I ended up going with. Then I this other idea…a volcano is about to erupt and destroy the entire city and engulf everything in flames, and we just have to reconcile with the ending of that. And then I was like, “Nah, maybe that’s a little too violent for what’s going on.” And me and Brandy were both abducted and we were forced to perform. Then I had an idea a performance a giant intergalactic canteen or something that was a collection of a bunch of different people. I couldn’t put together the effects to make it exactly the way that I saw it, so. One was this idea of me basically trying to win back this jellyfish alien-looking girlfriend that I had been with for I don’t know how long. I wrote maybe three different treatments for it. How did the “Dynamite” video come together? I did have a demo version that I did where I was kind of putting some of the lyrics that she’s saying in the final, and then kind of doing some melodies. I think she just really wanted everything to feel consistent and feel like it flowed. But I think it made sense at the time because it was kind of the last piece in the project. Well, I think for this one she really wanted me to give her a lot of direction, which also took me by surprise, too. I’m not even trying to knock the major label system, but it’s just - for me, my personal experience being in that system and weathering so many changes with personnel and just giving up a little bit of my urgency, it really made me appreciate the hunger and the freedom to just have your own space to put something together that you feel like is an introduction. I didn’t want to make something that felt too derivative. What do you think makes this album stand out? Neptune was a re-introduction of sorts and I feel like you just gave me an elevator pitch for it. At the time, I thought was really authentic compared to what I had been doing before. It grounded me and focus on something together that was a lot more specific than anything that I’ve ever done. It made me feel like I wanted this project to sound like something from the early ‘00s, and I to take these influences from the ’90s R&B that I had. I think, being in such a specific headspace and being in isolation for a while, it gave me a creative motivation that I feel like I didn’t really have outside of just being free from a label.
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