although Sasami It’s always easy to slip between genres, and her latest career moves surprised even her most passionate fans – but her hub is just the next stop that has been moving since the release of her debut album in 2019.
“Every album comes from something from the previous album cycle. So when I toured my first album, the songs were very quiet and soft.” Sasami, 34, told exclusively US Weekly. “At the time, there were a lot of old, clumsy guys doing the sound and they would always say, ‘Your voice is so quiet, your guitar is so loud.’ It really prompted me to actually make my guitar turn loudly from some form of rebellion.”
This backpressure has led to the “positive big guitar sound” in 2022 squeezewhich again leads to where we are now: her third album, Blood on the screen.
“Traveling squeezeI was touring with a metal band, and if you were professional metal screaming, a way you should scream – I really didn’t do that, I was just screaming like I was murdered every night. “She explained. “It affects my voice, which makes me a little nervous because I don’t protect my instrument. So that era really brought me into an album that wrote an album that was really about to be sung and really focused on songwriting as the craft of this album cycle. ”
Sasami’s voice is in front Blood on the screenthis is full of bop, in a perfect world that will be played on the radio Sabrina Carpenter and Billie Eilish. But the singer studied classical court at the prestigious Eastman Conservatory of Music, not just opening the synthesizer and calling it a day. Instead, she approached her pop era with academic precision, partly because she didn’t actually listen to a lot of mainstream music when she grew up.
“When I grew up, people really identified with the type they heard,” she explained. “Now, I think you can see a kid in super gothic and you’re like, ‘Oh, you, you, like a wanderer?’ They’re like, “No, I actually got it from Urban Outfitters.” “You really can’t say too much. When I grew up, it was like counterculture, that was counterculture and you didn’t listen to pop music.”
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As a “young, weird band kid,” Sasami “never really actively listens to pop music, but it still goes into her brain. However, when she grew up and started her career as a professional musician, she initially felt the pressure of writing songs was a song you never heard on Radio 40.
“Pop music always feels like something new. It’s like, at the end of the trip, when you just want to assemble troops home, you put on it Rihanna and Britney Spears To keep the atmosphere in the van. “She recalled. “But then I started to look like this, why does pop music give you this exciting feeling? Rather than shy away from some guilt, I want to say, “What if I just admit that it was a pleasant time?”
for Blood on the screenshe “tryes to take advantage of what I love about pop music and what makes it addictive and appealing, rather than like ‘oh, this is this true saccharin, something shiny isn’t sincere. [I was] Trying to understand the core of truly sincere humanity, this attracts everyone to pop music. ”
This is not to say that her new music lacks substantiveness. For example, in the album bottle opener “Slugger,” she sings about realizing that the pain of wisdom does not always appear with age Dolly Parton,,,,, Steve Lacey and Frédéric Chopin.
“It’s like wearing a Halloween costume. You’re trying something like this, but you’re still always looking like yourself, like you’re trying to use a different type,” she told us. “Even when I’m making big keys, optimistic, four-floor pop music, that is when I talk about relationships and drama. Because of my nature, due to my own personal experience, there’s always something melancholy or melodious about the storytelling.”
Sasami, in her final step to stay true to herself, brought her horn to the tour for the first time. “You can definitely look forward to the mystery of the next cycle, almost dramatic drama stage performances,” she said.[I’m] Go all out and go deep into drama and historicity. ”
Blood on the screen Now comes out.
