I read somewhere that you write the music you wanted to listen to growing up. WhatMy dad loves bluegrass and country music. He’s German, so it’s kind of random [laughs]. And my mom is a disco queen, so there was a lot of disco. Sade was the middle ground, the one thing they could agree on musically. And then I loved all pop. So of course, Gaga. Once I was listening to her, Taylor [Swift] and Britney [Spears] and Christina [Aguilera] and all the pop girls, those were definitely my favorites.
It’s something that 99 percent of people don’t get to experience, so can you tell me what it’s like walking out on stage with thousands of people cheering for you? Oh, my goodness. It’s like the highest high. And also, the community you feel when you get on stage and everybody is singing songs back to you. It’s… euphoric. Incomparable.
I feel like now more than ever, it’s important for people in entertainment to keep using their voices in a time when all these people in politics are trying to take away our rights to literally to exist, the videos sequentially tell a story. Which comes first, the music or the video concept? It’s different every time. I would say that in the past, traditionally, it’s been the video idea first, then the song. But for the last EP, I was just writing music about stuff going on in my life and then I strung together the six songs that I liked the most. And then, it was a bit of a challenge for me to come up with a narrative for the video series that weave through those songs.Yes and no.