Meet The Women Changing The Asian Music Scene For The Better

How does your music influence your style?

"I have a stylist and art director, and each time we change my concept for fashion, makeup, and hair, we actually have a lot of meetings and share ideas and listen to music — based on that, they create an image that hasn’t been thought of before. If I like their suggestions I’ll be like, 'Oh let’s build up on that. I like that concept.' But they don’t make me dress feminine or even masculine — kinda [non] gender-binary. Most of my clothes are actually men’s. I like to make my fit really loose and have a lot of volume, like a sculpture."

You've mentioned before that you grew up listening to K-pop. Your music is very different, so how do you differentiate your music with what the world might associate with Korean music as a whole?

"It wasn’t my intention to be different. I just wanted to do whatever the heck I wanted. I have a producer who sometimes rearranges my songs and he called me a rule-breaker — it was hard for him to understand and rearrange my songs because I take a different approach than other music. I think it’s because I didn’t have a proper education in music and I started off as a graphic designer. Everything first comes as a visual and then I make it into music.

So if you hear a normal song, there is a verse one, verse two, a hook, verse one, verse two, interlude, and then it ends — but I like to mix the order and sometimes make it backwards, or I don’t make an obvious hook because it’s boring. It may not be too commercial, but I just want to try new things and new forms of electronic music."

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