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Radio voices have a solid, even texture.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Radio
Texture
Voice
Solid
Voices
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Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Vice Versa
Associate
Versa
Vice
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I'm pretty strict with videos, at least the imagery stuff.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Imagery
Strict
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I like to blur the line between remix and cover version and new song.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Blur
Remix
Version
Cover
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Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Culture
People
Talking
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Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net - 'I'm able to execute this; it's fine.'
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Confidence
Fine
Execute
Net
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Out of all the weird things out of the tour, the weirdest thing for me is singing every day.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
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Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Bass
Saxophone
Violin
Cello
Drums
Instrument
Recorder
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I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Fall
People
Traps
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I approach every single thing I do as a fan. It's the only way I can do things. That way, I never let myself down.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Approach
Fans
Way
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Personally, I always just want people to enjoy themselves and experience something that they wouldn't normally experience.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Enjoy
People
Want
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I don't want to say I hate remixes, because I don't, but I hate what instantly comes to mind now when people say 'remixes.'
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Instantly
People Say
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Having to sing makes me feel like a singer. And I don't view myself as a singer, but I guess I now am, because I am singing every day.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
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A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Beaten
Bus
Badly
Daily
Ended
Hospital
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I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Crime
Mean
Taste
Trying
Varied
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I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York, but I feel it more as a father figure or something - this huge presence watching over me. I definitely feel better and work freer here.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Father Figure
Work Better Me
Eaten
Freer
Work Father Me
Presence
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If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Aspect
Hunger
Study
Weird
Exists
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I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing else in the world matters at all, just please yourself and the people you love and that's it.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
People
Trying
World
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When I was recording music, I'd record all the parts myself, and I wouldn't let other people in; that's essentially what Blood Orange is the result of; me trying to find the most comfortable I can be with everything.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Orange
Music Myself Me
Essentially
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'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Derogatory
Mischievous
One Day
Slang
Song
Young
Feel
Played
Complimentary
Old
Either
Over
Word
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I've been enjoying showing the music I perform to these people who have not heard it before. I think it's kind of interesting in a scientific kind of way. I don't mind either way the outcomes of the shows I've played, I just genuinely find it interesting seeing people's reactions.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Interesting
People
Thinking
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I've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a choral section where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It's a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Composer
Melody
Opening
Sequence
Track
Weird
Chord
Fairies
Production
Rendition
Section
Sing
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I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Able
Banking
Digital
My Own
Seeing
Pretty
Basically
Days
Few
Fully
Laptop
Painstaking
Putting
Screen
Sounds
Spent
Synth
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I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Audio
Connecting
Emotionally
Exists
Lyric
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I'm such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously you can get swept up into them. But I feel like if you just write songs you love, it can have trap beats in it or whatever's going on in the moment, but you don't stop loving songs.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Beats
Believer
Selfish
Swept
Trap
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Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Block
Focused
Insane
Panic
Start Always Me
Attack
Me Day Start
Overwhelm
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The issue I had with the Lightspeed albums was that usually the main purpose with them was to fulfil really dorky musical goals, like, 'I wonder if I can do that,' and it was all very personal. It was more that once I'd finished the goal of what the song was, I was kind of done. It was like ticking boxes.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Boxes
Dorky
Finished
Musical
Purpose
Song
Wonder
Fulfil
Issue
Main
Personal
Ticking
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I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Hindsight
Presumptuous
Teacher Music Me
Describe
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Some people say I do it too much, but I'm always asking the artist questions. Sometimes - especially with new artists - you can see they're compromising in their mind. You see that look when they're listening to a vocal take and there's hesitation. And I'll be like, 'Are you sure you don't want to do this again?'
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Hesitation
Vocal
Compromising
Look Mind People
People Say
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The way it works for me is my sight and sound senses are combined. Every sound I associate with a color and every color I associate with a sound... The way I see things is constant streamers across the room, bouncing off from every touch and every sound. Over the years, I've learned what color palates I love most.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Constant
Senses
Sight
Love Me Way
Love Me See
Associate
Bouncing
Combined
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It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that's not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Funny
Different Things
Disregard
Me People True
Funny Me People
Lots
General
Course
Liked
Genuinely
General Rule
Released
Rule
Seem
Timeline
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When I was asked to compose a score for... 'Palo Alto,' I first thought to myself, 'What is the house that these characters would want to live in?' I wanted to paint a picture and color scheme that I could work around. I gently apply different daubs to see what fits to match the color I have in mind with these characters.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Paint
Score
Alto
Work Myself Mind
Apply
Compose
Fits
Gently
Scheme
Match
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I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presently because they liked my previous work, or to dismiss it because they didn't. I'm guilty of this as well - having preconceptions about other artists - but it's stupid because all music exists on its own and should be listened to with a clear head.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Clear
Guilty
Preconceptions
Stupid
Weary
Work Music Always
Work Music People
Artists
Connotations
Liked
Dismiss
Exists
Previous
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