Juxtaposing emotions is something I’m probably always gonna do in my career.Īrlo Parks possesses a remarkable ability to encapsulate life from her perspective. I thought it would be crazy interesting if the mood of the video didn’t match the song at all, just like the lyrics to the sound of it. It’s sort of a “day in the life” type of story with a horror/sci-fi twist. The video to me really encapsulates the feeling I was trying to convey with the song. There's the one I'm making for "Happy." And after that, I don't know what I'm gonna do next, but it turned out really cool. The video for “Billie Jean” was always a favorite of mine. It's still really cool today, with the lights.Īre you making any new videos in the future? “Baby Be Mine” or.I like “Girlfriend,” off Off The Wall alot. What's your favorite Michael Jackson song? That's what makes great art: taking something so common, like a great hook, like a Michael Jackson song, and making it weird. It's a family tree type of thing where everything is connected, but it's your footprint in time in the bigger picture. You can have an unconventional pop song, and I think that's what separates the best music from the rest. I think you can have a good hook and make it in a way that isn't conventional. I think like all the music that like I've been into since like day one-like when I was a kid-has been really accessible but hasn't been afraid to do something challenging. So I know I already asked you about the differences between “Dennis” and Cat Heaven, but your music pegged me as.not pop, but kind of? I think it's annoying to put music in a box because right now everyone's inspired by everything, but it has a strong pop sensibility. I definitely think it was both ways with how we handled the sound for both Cat Heaven and his album. He was always like, “Oh nobody's using guitars, I want to use guitars, I want to do something weird." When we met I was doing a lot of like weird guitar and rap stuff, and then it started just working itself out in a really cool way and I think we both taught each other a lot.he taught me a lot. It kinda came together at the right time when we both wanted to play with guitars. We worked on his last one before Brockhampton really took off. I think nostalgia is how our generation is dealing with it.Īs far as sonically, I know you've done a lot of work with Brockhampton, who are so particular. It's harsh, to realize the world's always changing.Įach generation's going to deal with it differently. I think for the kid coming of age now, it does come from a place of us not knowing how to cope with the world changing. There's cool things and not-so-cool things about it. I think we're into nostalgia as a society right now. I feel like a lot of people of our generation have a muscle memory with VHS, but since we grew up in the digital age we're all very much.nostalgic? We crave those colors and that style because it's familiar and slipping through our fingers at the same time. Bands like Oasis, Alanis Morissette.their visuals and branding and taste played a part in how I was overseeing that video's creative direction. I think the best way to sort of represent that was going back to what my parents were playing in the car growing up, which was a lot of 90s stuff. I think the album just reflects on childhood and stuff. It's beautiful imagery why choose to draw on that nostalgic, vintage look? That might be because I'm from L.A., but it’s definitely a thing.īefore I heard “Dennis,” I watched the video for “Perfume.” I was thinking a lot about the kind of dreamy L.A. There definitely are people who just like stand there, but I guess I just feel, like, more warmth. I think they just want to move a little bit more. ![]() ![]() How does that compare to the crowds in L.A. I was told that's a New York thing! The first few songs I was the most on edge and things were kinda weird, but then it got better because I just got more comfortable on stage. The people were just standing there and could make eye contact with me and it was freaking me out. It's really weird, and there was a light on the crowd. The first four or five rows were my fans and then the other people were just kind of standing ’s pretty terrifying when you're dancing and moving around onstage and everyone's just standing still watching you. It was like twice the size of the first show. It was good! It was my second show ever as a solo artist. I wanna ask you about the show at the Bowery Ballroom on the 24th. It wasn't like “oh, I need to do something different.” It was just what I did for the album, it's how it came out. Why did you decide to go in that direction? ![]() I think the sound goes a little further, for sure. What can you tell me about “Dennis?” It sounds a little different from Cat Heaven in that you give yourself more freedom to freestyle and be loose.
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