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Switched on Popis runningNewcomers, a three-part series of interviews with breakout artists.
This week, Reanna Cruz interviews Porter Robinson.
:D.
Porter Robinsons intentions for writing a new album?
Burn everything down and start fresh, he says.
The 32-year-old producer and DJs new record,SMILE!
Everyones gonna hate this, he says.
But this is what seems really fun to me right now.
you could read excerpts from the conversation below.
For the full interview, check out the latest episode ofSwitched on Pop.
Lets start with a question Im sure youve gotten a lot.
What does the lyric Bitch, Im Taylor Swift, mean to you?Im aRedand1989person.
Thats my favorite work from her.
I have such a musical sweet tooth I love big, cute hooks.
I think that comes through in my music.
But then I couldnt get away from it.
It was like, anything I tried to replace it with just felt weaker and less memorable.
I think Im a person who feels a huge amount of self-consciousness and shame.
So, I started off trying to play this unashamed rock-star character.
I think what ultimately ended up happening was it kind of crumbled as I was writing the music.
And I started telling the truth more and saying how I was really feeling.
But I was able to tap into it for a split second, and it felt nice.
Its fascinating that onSMILE!
:Dyoure pursuing more traditional songwriting approaches, when the record is contending largely with your relationship with fame.
And thats just the reality.
I think the much larger part of it is that my taste just changes over time.
I never had really listened to the Killers, Coldplay, or Radiohead before.
I was always such an electronic-music person.
And my way of doing that is to take a stab at embody it and to live it.
And its like, I dont really have much say in that.
Like, Ill strum a certain chord and it just screams at me.
