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them in. When I am performing I’m humbly bowed with the
intention of serving, and what’s needed of the moment. I suppose
that’s what makes a show good, letting people come into your
space and energy, like “hey, she’s smiling and having a good
time, I’d like to smile and have a good time, let’s do it!”
At the same time the crowd often, like in every other space,
has a lot of naysayers. How do you deal with this? What
would you say is the easiest way to make them see that
your message is important?
I guess just by having a dance, have them feel the music, that’s
usually how it goes. M.I.A has inspired me this way because she
could be criticizing a lot of things, but she has everyone dancing to
her music, and she’s infiltrating the music with these messages.
I suppose my goal is to continue writing music that draws even
more people in, to meet them where they are with this message.
They could be naysayers, but they are on their own journey. I’m
not here to convince anybody as long as my message is cerebral,
and intelligent. I often feel as though feminism is for men, who
oppress each other through their own systems, through this, we’re
healing everybody. Hey, the future is female.
Musically, would you say you enjoy drumming more,
or vocals?
I’ve never been asked that before! (laughing) I sing
four notes and I just sing them confidently. As for
drumming, yeah I find a lot of self expression
in drumming. Drumming is feminine. Every
set I interact with is so different and I love
gauging the personality of the drums. It’s
expressive because unlike a lot of other
instruments there are no limits of
scales, except keeping time. You get
to run rhythms that are you.
Artistically- who are your musical inspirations?
Of course! Tune Yards, M.I.A, Thievery Corporation, Bjork, Beyonce
So you wear and are associated with a lot of bright, pop
colours, which makes an audience perceive you in a
certain way. Do you think an artists’ personal dressing
choice make a huge impact on how the audience perceives
their music?
The way I dress is to do with self expression. People constantly
try to analyze it as great branding, but honestly I just love
yellow. If I see am buying something and it’s yellow, as opposed
to something that is blue right next to it, I am going to buy the
yellow! It’s not about strategizing- same with the outfits. For
instance when I was in the marathon, my shirt matched my
pants which matched my shoes-my outfit was dope. When people
asked me asinine questions about why I wasn’t wearing black
pants, it was simply that I like wearing dope outfits out of self
expression- inspired by the moment. People do perceive it as a
message- as young, funky, authentic and effortless, it’s also about
how us as women talking about rights and me choosing to wear
an outfit are all part of the same energy, about self expression.
The media tends to portray women
through stereotypes, and this
is about making us all three
dimensional. I’m brown,
my hair is blonde, we are
out here.
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