This profile was originally published on January 15, 2024. We’re recirculating it alongside the release of Tems’s debut album,It’s just after 2 p.m. in Ladbroke Grove, a pastel neighborhood in West London still holding to its fading memory as England’s Haight-Ashbury.is reclining in a chair she’s been sitting in for the better part of two days ahead of the holidays, fiddling on Ableton with a languorous track called “Not an Angel” that she thinks she’s finally, after several months, figured out.
Tems began to seriously work on music in the mid-2010s while studying economics at Monash South Africa in Johannesburg. She had not wanted to go, but her efforts to evade enrollment deadlines were ultimately unsuccessful. Her mother was adamant that she get a proper education. Every day after class, she would spend hours in her dorm room teaching herself music-software production on YouTube, chopping up songs on Logic.
The pregnancy rumor was started because of a video circulating online in which her stomach didn’t look washboard flat — probably, she says, because she’d just eaten. Her inbox started filling up with threatening messages. Her mother and cousins were ringing down her phone to ask if it was true and to express their hopes that it was not. “That’s what social media does,” she laments. “It makes illusions feel real. It makes your imagination feel real.
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