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center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      Sudan Archives is the world\u2019s most confident introvert\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      Brittney Parks breaks down her newly announced album, <i>Natural Brown Prom Queen<\/i>, on the latest episode of The FADER Interview.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\" image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Sudan_Archives_by_Edwig_Henson_2_e9hq8e\/the-fader-interview-sudan-archives-natural-brown-prom-queen.jpg\" 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2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Sudan Archives is the world\u2019s most confident introvert\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Edwig Henson<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"custom_share_buttons_top \" style=\"\">\n<div id=\"new_socials_bottom\" class=\"new_socials_footer  \">\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Facebook-747312c39722d47504a80f02500b8d4ad2e36acf922bad1c83799db1bc77f605.png\" alt=\"Fdr socialsharing facebook\"><br \/>\n      <!-- <span>Share<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" 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src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/logo-snapchat-5f1563935ac089d0cf1773f642ddbfb6cdb16e8c4ac14fec95a3c11b6f963389.svg\" alt=\"Logo snapchat\"><br \/>\n        <!-- <span>Snap<\/span> --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234429\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <span class=\"lead-text\">Brittney Parks<\/span> \u2014 the violinist, singer, r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er, producer, and arranger better known as Sudan Archives \u2014 has a complicated relationship with pop music. As a teen, she was pressured by her stepfather \u2014 a music exec who helped launch the iconic Atlanta label LaFace Records \u2014 to form a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/we_are_n2\">pop duo<\/a> with her twin sister. Committed to forging her own path, she rebelled, got kicked out of her family\u2019s Cincinnati home, and moved to Los Angeles, where she worked service industry jobs and played open mics before signing with Stones Throw.<\/p>\n<p>            <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/sudanarchives.bandcamp.com\/album\/sudan-archives\">Two<\/a> impressive <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/sudanarchives.bandcamp.com\/album\/sink\">EPs<\/a> and one groundbreaking full-length (2019\u2019s <i><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"%E2%80%9D&lt;a\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\">Athena<\/a><\/i>) later, she\u2019s at the top of her <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. She\u2019s released three singles so far this year, each one stronger than the last, and just announced her sophomore LP, <i>Natural Brown Prom Queen<\/i>. Due out September 9, the forthcoming album is by no means a straight-ahead pop project, but it contains some of her catchiest, lushest, most joyful songs to date \u2014 surprising, given the fact that she recorded, arranged, and edited them in her basement during deep lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>            Last month, I sat down with Parks to discuss her newfound acceptance of Capital-P Pop, her missing pet python, and the unorthodox process that led to the new record she can\u2019t wait for the world to hear.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234472\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"content_block flush image\" id=\"content_block-234430\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Sudan-Archives-by-Edwig-HensonWEB_qai9du\/the-fader-interview-sudan-archives-natural-brown-prom-queen.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Sudan-Archives-by-Edwig-HensonWEB_qai9du\/the-fader-interview-sudan-archives-natural-brown-prom-queen.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Sudan-Archives-by-Edwig-HensonWEB_qai9du\/the-fader-interview-sudan-archives-natural-brown-prom-queen.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Sudan-Archives-by-Edwig-HensonWEB_qai9du\/the-fader-interview-sudan-archives-natural-brown-prom-queen.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Sudan-Archives-by-Edwig-HensonWEB_qai9du\/the-fader-interview-sudan-archives-natural-brown-prom-queen.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Sudan-Archives-by-Edwig-HensonWEB_qai9du\/the-fader-interview-sudan-archives-natural-brown-prom-queen.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Sudan-Archives-by-Edwig-HensonWEB_qai9du\/the-fader-interview-sudan-archives-natural-brown-prom-queen.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Sudan-Archives-by-Edwig-HensonWEB_qai9du\/the-fader-interview-sudan-archives-natural-brown-prom-queen.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Sudan-Archives-by-Edwig-HensonWEB_qai9du\/the-fader-interview-sudan-archives-natural-brown-prom-queen.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Sudan-Archives-by-Edwig-HensonWEB_qai9du\/the-fader-interview-sudan-archives-natural-brown-prom-queen.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Sudan-Archives-by-Edwig-HensonWEB_qai9du\/the-fader-interview-sudan-archives-natural-brown-prom-queen.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Sudan Archives is the world\u2019s most confident introvert\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Edwig Henson<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234432\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>This Q&amp;A is taken from the latest episode of The FADER Interview. To hear this week\u2019s show in full, and to access the podcast\u2019s archive, click <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/thefaderinterview\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n          <\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234433\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TFI7834680816\" width=\"100%\" height=\"482\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234473\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234431\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>The FADER: I caught your set at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/bigearsfestival.org\/2022-festival\/\">Big Ears Festival<\/a> in Knoxville. What was your experience there like?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>Brittney Parks:<\/b> It was cool. Saul Williams was right after me, and then Yves Tumor. I\u2019m friends with the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/topaz_faerie\/?hl=en\">bass player<\/a> of Yves Tumor, and she\u2019s super cool. And I\u2019m friends with Saul Williams too because, whenever I\u2019m on a European festival run, he\u2019s always playing right after me. It\u2019s weird. So I felt like the lineup made sense in that building, but overall, the festival was all types of music: world music to orchestra music to Saul Williams and Yves Tumor.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Listening to the new album, I was surprised by how many songs I recognized from that set \u2014 because you\u2019d previewed them so early, but also because they\u2019re so catchy that I im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely remembered them. I know your intention isn\u2019t to make Capital-P Pop music, but do you think of <i>Natural Brown Prom Queen<\/i> as more of a pop project than <i>Athena<\/i>?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Not really. I think my sound is just becoming more polished, which makes it feel more pop. I used to stray away from that word when I was younger because, when I was in a group with my sister, my stepdad would always bring up pop stars and compare us to them \u2014 \u201cDon\u2019t you wanna be like that?\u201d He wasn\u2019t trying to manipulate me; he was trying to push me to think bigger. But I didn\u2019t like the comparisons he was making. So I was like, \u201cNo, I wanna do what I do, which is\u2026 I don\u2019t know what it is yet, but it\u2019s not that!\u201d Now I\u2019m not afraid of the word because I just think it means you\u2019re poppin\u2019. And I am poppin\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Tell me about your relationship with church music. I know that\u2019s where you started playing violin, and I don\u2019t necessarily think of the violin when I think of church music.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            People in those small churches are really supportive of kids getting up and playing anything they want. If it was a rain stick, they\u2019d be like, \u201cPlay it in the name of God!\u201d So I felt like I could just go up there and play. My mom pressured me too, because it felt unusual to me, like, \u201cWhat am I gonna do up there?\u201d [But] she was like, \u201cThat\u2019s how real musicians do it; they just get up and play by ear.\u201d That was my first experience getting up and having to just go with the flow. The choir leader, Camille, would find church songs that had violin solos to make it even easier: \u201cGo home and listen to that part and try to play that solo.\u201d And the drummer was my boyfriend at the time, so I was trying to sound super cool for him too.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>I\u2019ve heard the story of you deciding you wanted to play violin because you saw an Irish folk band when you were a kid. Do you still listen to any Irish music?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I just went to an Irish fiddle show, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"http:\/\/gerryoconnor.com\/about\/\">Gerry O\u2019Connor<\/a>. He was playing Irish jigs and talking about the stories and how he learned them. He was really good. It reminded me of the reason I play music: Irish jig music is so wild and upbeat. You don\u2019t really hear the violin sound like that in pop music. If I could influence pop music in any way, it would be dope to bring those dying traditions and sounds into modern music. That was the whole plan of me moving to L.A.: I wanted to be an ethnomusicologist for dying string instruments. In a way, I guess I\u2019m still doing that.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>And from there, you got into Sudanese and other African music, particularly single-string fiddle players, right?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I was just looking for representation, I guess, because I knew I didn\u2019t wanna be in an orchestra. And I liked fiddle club, but I moved to a different school where they didn\u2019t have a fiddle after school program. I was looking for ways to be inspired, so when I realized that there was this whole violin culture in Sudan and Ghana and Eastern Europe \u2014 and the Irish stuff that I was already aware of \u2014 it felt like they were all connected. Since Sudan was a nickname my mom gave me, I started to look up the music of Sudan, and I realized they mess with the violin heavy; it\u2019s part of their culture. That really made me feel like it was preordained for me to have that nickname so I could explore the way they make music. It changed the way I made my songs because I realized you don\u2019t have to have violin tucked in the background. It doesn\u2019t have to be this legato, pretty moment. It can be wild and crazy and piercing and aggressive. It reminded me of Prince and Jimi Hendrix, how the guitar is a huge part of their set and their songs. I thought I could be the violin version of that.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>How did you get the nickname Sudan?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I was gonna call myself Tokyo Moon, [a reference to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/anime-manga\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"Anime || Manga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manga<\/a> and anime <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> <i>Sailor Moon<\/i>,] and my mom was like, \u201cNo.\u201d I remember her saying, \u201cWhat about Sudan Moon?\u201d And then it changed to Sudan Archives. She just thought it was a pretty name, and then I realized the meaning in Arabic is \u201cLand of the Blacks.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234474\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234434\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sudan Archives - Home Maker (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Z5-ejzOouw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('234434');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234435\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>You haven\u2019t done many interviews between the release of <i>Athena<\/i> and now. What else have you been doing in the meantime besides recording and touring?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Trying to make my house look really cute and building a studio in my basement. I usually [record] in my bedroom, but now I finally have space where I can dedicate the basement to being a music studio.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Do you still have a pet python?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Yeah. Actually, he\u2019s lost right now. He broke out his cage two days ago, and I don\u2019t know where the fuck he\u2019s at. I think I might have to lure him somehow \u2014 get a mouse and leave it in the center of the room and see if he\u2019ll investigate it. But I\u2019m kind of scared because I\u2019ve looked everywhere and I just can\u2019t find him.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>\u201cHome Maker\u201d goes against the modern perception of domesticity as something regressive or anti-feminist. Did you set out to try to challenge that perception, or did it just come naturally?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            It came naturally, but that\u2019s what\u2019s so cool about doing music videos: You can really analyze the song. In [director Jocelyn Anquetil\u2019s] treatment I\u2019m a siren, luring men to feel hypnotized like they\u2019re at home. And then it flickers to the real freaky siren me, but I look like this Midwestern sweetie shopping for home decor. But really, we\u2019re not even in a furniture store; we\u2019re in a mirage.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Why did you choose that one to open both the album and its release cycle as the lead single?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Because it was done. It took so long to finish these songs. Every other song, I kept changing ideas, gathering other people\u2019s ideas, and that was one of the songs that was just done. I had all these demos, and I knew that was the first song even before the album was even done. It put all of the demos in a playlist, like, \u201cThis is how I think the album should go,\u201d and it never changed.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234475\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234436\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NBPQ (Topless)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yxKYFA_fz6s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('234436');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234437\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>I think \u201cNBPQ (Topless)\u201d \u2014 the album\u2019s second track and third single \u2014 also has opener potential. There\u2019s a vibe shift from the end of \u201cHome Maker\u201d to the bouzouki at the beginning of \u201cNBPQ.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I really like that bouzouki. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simononthemoon\">Simon On The Moon<\/a> helped with that. He plays all of these crazy instruments. He was one of my favorite people to work with. I did a blind test: I listened to that song from five other people, and I picked him. I didn\u2019t even know what I wanted. I was open to whatever, but I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t wanna know who these people are, what they do, or anything. I just wanna listen.\u201d The plan was to take from what I liked and mix and arrange it all myself. Simon stood out because all the instruments he was playing were so bizarre sounding. And it had a live feel: I could tell he was playing real instruments.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>So you just sent out the stems of the demos to a bunch of musicians, like an open call?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            My manager [and <i>Natural Brown Prom Queen<\/i>\u2019s co-producer, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bendickeymusic.com\/\">Ben Dickey<\/a>,] had some ideas of who would be a good fit. On \u201cNBPQ,\u201d for example, I liked two people\u2019s ideas. The bridge \u2014 \u201cI be seeing things,\u201d this anime-sounding moment \u2014 that\u2019s a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totallyenormousextinctdinosaurs.com\/\">whole different producer<\/a>. The song slowly gets faster and faster,  so I took a guitar from someone else\u2019s idea. I pieced a lot of stuff together, [which] I\u2019d never done before: \u201cI like both of these takes, so I\u2019ll just split it up.\u201d It was a weird, mixed-media approach, but I thought it was cool.<\/p>\n<p>            Ben always linked me with producers in the past, and I had some type of anxiety. I didn\u2019t wanna to work with people in real life. I just wanted to be here and do what I do. I work best [that way]. I don\u2019t need to make a demo at someone else\u2019s studio because I don\u2019t wanna be influenced by what they think I should do. Or I might be too nervous to even do what I do in front of them. So Ben was like, \u201cWell, since it\u2019s COVID, let\u2019s work remotely with people, and you don\u2019t even need to know who they are.\u201d It worked out way easier [with COVID] for me to stay here and never leave and make music. It\u2019s the best way I\u2019ve ever worked with people because I\u2019m a homemaker, and my vibe is so viby. I\u2019ve got my weed here, my stuffed animals, my instruments \u2014 everything I need. If I go [to someone\u2019s studio], I\u2019ve gotta bring all that there. I\u2019d rather stay here and let everybody do what they do best [in their own space]. I don\u2019t like it any other way, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p>            Ben helped weave that process together, and then he was so excited about the project that he had some ideas too. We\u2019d never worked [together] in that way before, but I was open to it because I\u2019m an open book and I want people to have opportunities. When you\u2019re closed off and wanna do everything on your own, that\u2019s cool, but for me, it\u2019s more beautiful to see what a team can do. I got to invite my friends over to play [on the songs]: My friend <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hellastrings\/?hl=en\">Hellastrings<\/a> played bass on \u201cCiara\u201d and \u201cHomesick.\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dexterstory.com\/\">Dexter Story<\/a> played bass on \u201cSelfish Soul.\u201d Egyptian Lover [engineered and added 808s to \u201cFreakalizer,\u201d and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/7466785-James-R-McCall-IV\">James [McCall]<\/a> helped arrange. If I was in someone else\u2019s studio and I had to delegate and bring all those people there, I wouldn\u2019t know what to say.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Was there anyone else you were especially excited to work with on the album?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I was really excited that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mononeon\/?hl=en\">MonoNeon<\/a> played bass on and produced an interlude. I wanna make more music with him; he\u2019s so talented. And [other] close friends: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/_andrelias_\/?hl=en\">Andre [Elias]<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"\/\/www.kesswa.com%E2%80%9D\">KESSWA<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"\/\/ahyasimone.live%E2%80%9D\">Ahya [Simone]<\/a> played on \u201cHome Maker,\u201d and Andre produced \u201cChevyS10.\u201d Those people \u2014 the people make me feel at home \u2014 are all part of the album, everybody. Even my twin sister [Cat] helped me write \u201cCopycat (Broken Notions).\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234476\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234438\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sudan Archives - Selfish Soul (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eaY8kI0oEpA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('234438');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-234439\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>\u201cSelfish Soul\u201d is a celebration of your hair but also very honest about the insecurity you\u2019ve had around it. Would you say the song is about your process of growing comfortable with your hair?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Yeah. When I was very little, I heard \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#faf2f2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E_5jIt0f5Z4\">I Am Not My Hair<\/a>\u201d by India.Arie. \u201cSelfish Soul\u201d is an ode to that song, in a way: I talk about my own experience with hair and how I\u2019ve always felt the insecurities that come with having a certain type of hair texture. Specifically in America, it\u2019s a big mind fuck having hair like this.<\/p>\n<p>            I had a natural hippie phase where I was just wearing my Afro, [which] was really affordable, because I had no money, but people would always ask me political questions. You\u2019re perceived a certain way when you have a certain hairstyle. When I cut my hair, people were like, \u201cOh my God, where\u2019s the fro?\u201d And I\u2019m like, \u201cThe fro is not a person, okay? It\u2019s gone. It doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            When I get certain hairstyles, people are like, \u201cOh my God, Sudan\u2019s changed.\u201d And it\u2019s like, \u201cThe fuck? You don\u2019t even know me.\u201d Hair has nothing to do with who I am as a person. I have money now, so I\u2019m gonna have different hairstyles. I\u2019m still a hippie, but I have money to get my hair done now. 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