While Sasami It has always fallen easily among the genres, his last race play surprised even his fan fancies, but their pivot in pop It is the next stop in a trajectory that has been moving since he released his debut album in 2019.
“Each album comes from something from the album cycle above. So when I turned my first album, the songs were quite quiet and Mellow, “said Sasami exclusively 34 Use weekly. “At that time, there were many old and naughty types that were sleeping, and they would always be like:” Your voice is too calm and your guitars are too strong. “
That impulse caused the “aggressively large guitar sounds” of 2022 Squeezewhich in turn brought where we are now: his third album, Blood on the silver screen.
“From the tour SqueezeI went on tour with a metal band and there is a way that you are supposed to shout if you are a professional metal striking, and I really didn’t do it, I just shouted as if I was killed every night, “he said.” This affected my voice and put me a little nervous that I would not protect my instrument. And, therefore, the time prompted me to an album of writing songs that were really intended to be sung and really focused on the composition of songs as a trade in this album cycle. “”
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Sasami’s voice is at the helm and in the center Blood on the silver screenthat is full of bops that, in a perfect world, would be played 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 finish a Synth and called him a day. Instead, he approached his pop period with academic precision, partly because he did not grow up listening to a lot of main music.
“When it was growing, people really identified with the gender they listen to,” he said. “Now I feel you can see a child dressed in Super Goth, and series like,” Oh, are you, like, a strange unknown? “And they are like:” No, I really got it from urban outfitters. “
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Like “a young and strange young man from the band”, Sasami “never listened to” in pop, but still went to his brain. However, when he grew up and began his career as a professional musician, he initially felt pressure on writing songs you would never feel on the radio for the first 40.
“Pop music was something that always Felt like a novelty. How, at the end of a tour, when you just try to gather the troops to return home, you will put Rihanna and Britney Spears To keep the atmosphere in the van, “he recalled. “But then I was in sight, why does pop music give you this feeling of unevenness? And instead of leaving -me to move away from this as a kind of guilty pleasure, I am like: “What if I only recognize it as a pleasure, period?” ”
For Blood on the silver screen“I was trying to deepen the things I like of pop music and what makes it so addictive and sticky instead of being like:” Oh, it is this really saccharin, bright thing that is not sincere. (Was) trying to understand what is really in the core of the end and sincerity that attracts all people to pop music. “”
This does not mean that your new music does not have a substance. In the “slugger” album workshop, for example, sings about the pain involved in realizing wisdom does not always come with age while referring Dolly parton, Steve Lacy and Frédéric Chopin.
“It’s like putting —s A Halloween dress. You are trying to dress -you do, but you will always look like yourself, and so when you try different genres, “he said Us. “Even when I make pop-class pop music, from four to the plant, the part is me when I talk about relationships and drama. Due to my nature, there will always be a bit of a melancholy or melodramatic element in storytelling only for my own personal experience. “”
And, in the last stroke to stay faithful to herself, Sasami brings his French horn on the tour for the first time. “You can certainly expect a mystical, almost operatic and dramatic theatrical performance in this next cycle,” he said. “(I go) despite delving into drama and histrionism.”
Blood on the silver screen It’s already out.