Your new music is a lot more Hip-Hop influenced than what you were making as part of Karmin. Was that a conscious decision? It was both. Like even at that time, Nicki Minaj was singing on a lot of songs. And I was like, what is this inequality for women in Hip-Hop!? I know that historically some would say that Hip-Hop is male dominated and misogynistic even, if you wanna go there.
I felt like more people would wanna join that movement. Like Hip-Hop became the number 1 genre two years ago.. Laughs Not at all. The drums sound sharp too. Oh my God, the drums are so important to me.
That sound, that sound we got from people like Kanye and Timbaland. And Dre! Like have you seen The Defiant Ones? How do you navigate through that and balance it all? It took a long time, you know you have to be patient with yourself. And for me, I really wanted to make them proud. Like at some point, I have to step up and do what my soul is telling me to do. Yes I think the fact that you still have a great relationship is a blessing.
Not everybody is that lucky. I believe Nick has now taken a more behind the scenes role in your music. As husband and wife, how do you create a balance between professional and personal life? Does it ever get stressful? Laughs oh yeah, it does get stressful sometimes. He pushes me and I probably push him and open his mind up to things. Now to keep your romantic life alive? Yes, you have to put in the work and really formalize a few things. But on the professional side? We have a loft in the downtown area of L.
What are some of the things that you keep in mind or things you do in order to achieve that? I love how more and more white people today hold each other accountable about white privilege, how it affects the situation and how we can solve this issue. I Told You So Karmin. You already know. I told you, I told you, I told you so oh. F-f-f-feels so good, doesn't it? Winnin' while they flubbin' it. I was right, you was wrong. Figured I would write it in a hip hop song. Was it so hard to believe?
I can make it, being me? Drank too much Ouzo. My gosh, you know. People say a lot of things, make you feel real small. And self-conscious quirk has finally bubbled over into the pop mainstream thanks to people like Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, and Katy Perry. Karmin represent all that the current Top 40 suggests that we hold dear, just kicked up a notch too far.
They're culture reflected in a slightly distorting fun house mirror, kind of like a ruthless CEO or a beauty pageant. According to reliable record-sales tracker Hits Daily Double, Hello is on pace to sell up to 20, copies its first week out. While that will land it in the Top 10 of the Billboard chart, it's a fraction of what the last infuriating crossover viral sensation, Lana Del Rey, moved in her first week 77, copies.
Karmin are moving some units, but not stirring emotions. The outrage that, just three months ago, made Max Read's " Hater's Guide to Karmin " essential reading, has seemingly dried up. Maybe it's that Hello is a seven-song EP, and so it feels less worthy of being taken seriously than, say a full-length album would. That's optimistic in people's investment in full-length albums, by the way.
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