While Sasami Always slipped easily between genres, his last career movement even surprised his most ardent fans – but His pivot in Pop is just the next stop on a trajectory that has been in motion since she released her first album in 2019.
“Each album comes from something in the cycle of the previous album. So when I was touring my first album, the songs were quite silent and soft, “said Sasami, 34 years old US Weekly. “At that time, there were many old crotch guys who made sound, and they always said to themselves:” Your voice is too calm and your guitars are too noisy “. And it really pushed me to transform my even stronger guitar of a form of rebellion.
This decline led to “aggressively guitar sounds” of 2022 SqueezeWhich led to the place where we are now: his third album, Blood on the silver screen.
“From the tour SqueezeI was doing a tour with a metal group, and there is a way you are supposed to shout if you are a professional metal crier-and I really did not do that, I was just shouting as if I was murdered every evening, “she explained. “It affected my voice and it made me a little nervous not to protect my instrument. And so this era really pushed me in a song of songs by writing which were really supposed to be sung and really focusing on writing songs as a craft for this album cycle. “”
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Sasami’s voice is at the front and center Blood on the silver screenwho is full of bops who, in a perfect world, would play on the radio between Sabrina Carpenter And Billie Earth. But the singer, who studied the classic French horn at the famous Eastman music school, did not just light a synth and call him one day. Instead, she approached her pop era with academic precision, in part because she did not grow up by listening to a lot of consumer music.
“When I grew up, people really identify with the genre they listen to,” she said. “Now, I have the impression that you can see a child who dresses super Goth, and you would be like:” Oh, are you, like a cracked out of pariah? ” And they say to themselves: “No, in fact I got this from Urban Outfitters.” You can’t really say as much. While when I grew up, it was as if you were counter-culture, you were counter-culture and you did not listen to pop music. “”
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As a “bizarre young group”, Sasami “has never really listened actively”, but he has always made his way in his brain. However, when she grew up and started her career as a professional musician, she first felt pressure to write songs that you would never hear on the radio of the Top 40.
“Pop music was something that always I felt like a novelty. Like, at the end of a tour when you just try to reach the troops to go home, you put Rihanna And Britney Spears To keep the atmosphere in the van, ”she recalls. “But then, I draw like, why does Pop music give you this feeling of building?” And instead of moving away from that as being a kind of guilty pleasure, I say to myself: “What if I recognize it as a pleasure, the final point?” “”
For Blood on the silver screenShe “tried to draw from the things that I like from pop music and what makes her so addictive and catchy instead of being like:” Oh, it is this really saccharin and shiny thing that is not sincere. [I was] Trying to understand what is really at the heart of extreme and sincere humanity that attracts everyone to pop music. »»
This does not mean that his new music lacks substance. When opening the album “Slugger”, for example, she sings the pain that has just realized that wisdom does not always see with age when the reference Dolly Parton,, Steve Lacy And Frédéric Chopin.
“It’s like putting A Halloween costume. You try to dress like this only thing, but you will always look like yourself, and that’s how it is when you try different genres, ”she said We. “Even when I make major pop music, optimistic and four on the ground, the part of this is me, it is when I speak of relationships and drama. Because of my nature, there will always be a bit of a melancholic or melodramatic element of the narration just because of my own personal experience. »»
And in a last stroke of staying faithful to herself, Sasami brings her French horn on tour for the first time. “You can certainly expect a mystical, almost operative and dramatic theatrical performance on this next cycle,” she said. “”[I’m] Go everything and go deep into the drama and histrionic of it. »»
Blood on the silver screen is released now.
