{"id":624270,"date":"2024-06-14T19:35:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/zsela-is-listening\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T19:35:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:35:22","slug":"zsela-is-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/zsela-is-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"#Zsela is listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2587782e971\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/zsela-is-listening\/#The_adventurous_soul_singer_discusses_unlikely_dualities_fire_escape_reveries_and_Ween_in_the_context_of_her_brand_new_debut_album_Big_For_You\" >The adventurous soul singer discusses unlikely dualities, fire escape reveries, and Ween in the context of her brand new debut album, Big For You.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_adventurous_soul_singer_discusses_unlikely_dualities_fire_escape_reveries_and_Ween_in_the_context_of_her_brand_new_debut_album_Big_For_You\"><\/span>The adventurous soul singer discusses unlikely dualities, fire escape reveries, and Ween in the context of her brand new debut album, <i>Big For You<\/i>.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262145\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\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\/Zsela_press_02_web_credit_Tristan_Oliveira_leq2gw\/zsela-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-tristanoliveira-com-tristan-oliveira-a.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_web_credit_Tristan_Oliveira_leq2gw\/zsela-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-tristanoliveira-com-tristan-oliveira-a.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_web_credit_Tristan_Oliveira_leq2gw\/zsela-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-tristanoliveira-com-tristan-oliveira-a.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_web_credit_Tristan_Oliveira_leq2gw\/zsela-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-tristanoliveira-com-tristan-oliveira-a.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_web_credit_Tristan_Oliveira_leq2gw\/zsela-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-tristanoliveira-com-tristan-oliveira-a.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_web_credit_Tristan_Oliveira_leq2gw\/zsela-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-tristanoliveira-com-tristan-oliveira-a.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_web_credit_Tristan_Oliveira_leq2gw\/zsela-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-tristanoliveira-com-tristan-oliveira-a.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_web_credit_Tristan_Oliveira_leq2gw\/zsela-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-tristanoliveira-com-tristan-oliveira-a.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_web_credit_Tristan_Oliveira_leq2gw\/zsela-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-tristanoliveira-com-tristan-oliveira-a.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_web_credit_Tristan_Oliveira_leq2gw\/zsela-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-tristanoliveira-com-tristan-oliveira-a.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_web_credit_Tristan_Oliveira_leq2gw\/zsela-photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-tristanoliveira-com-tristan-oliveira-a.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Zsela is listening\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Zsela. Photo by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tristanoliveira.com\/\">Tristan Oliveira<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262146\" 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\">\u201cI was a really shy kid,<\/span> but the people who knew me knew I wasn\u2019t really shy,\u201d Zsela tells me from across a coffee table on the final day of May. She\u2019s just arrived at The FADER office, decked out in denim, hair in long, golden braids. She seems relaxed, considering her debut album is due out two weeks later.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            In the context of current industry pressures, Zsela (29) has been relatively slow to arrive at her first full-length. <i>Big For You<\/i> comes five years after her debut single, \u201cNoise,\u201d and four years after her debut EP, <i>Ache of Victory<\/i>. Aside from that project\u2019s 2021 remix tape, she\u2019s been quiet in the interim. Her meticulousness betrays a note of perfectionism, but not the type of anxiety-riddled nitpickery the term connotes. \u201cIt took the time it took,\u201d she says, \u201cand I\u2019m glad, because where we landed with everything feels like the best version.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262147\" 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=\"Zsela - Fire Excape (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mdn9LCmbyhg?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('262147');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262148\" 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>            Zsela\u2019s unhurried <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>roach pays dividends on the new album, a diverse yet cohesive set of 10 tracks, peppered with moments of bona fide brilliance. The first of these instances comes on the record\u2019s second track, \u201cFire Escape,\u201d when Zsela sings \u201cI\u2019m falling down\u201d for the first time, and an initially playful instrumental is replaced by an astonishing wall of sound. Other coups de grace are subtler, less cathartic but no less genius, products of Zsela\u2019s mind meld with superproducer Daniel Aged (Frank Ocean, FKA twigs, Kelela, Rosal\u00eda, et al.), a collaborator on every song in her catalog.<\/p>\n<p>            Several of the album\u2019s standouts benefit from stellar supporting casts: Nick Hakim and June McDoom\u2019s singular vocal stylings sit next to Zsela\u2019s venomous relationship revelations on \u201cBrand New,\u201d with more special sauce applied by guitar legend Marc Ribot, who also contributes an iconic lick to accompany the haunting spoken-word poetry of \u201cEasy St,\u201d one of several songs to feature inspired additional production from Jasper Marsalis (aka Slauson Malone 1), another of which \u2014 penultimate track \u201cMoth Dance\u201d \u2014 is the seed from which the rest of the record germinated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <i>Ache of Victory<\/i>, as the latter half of the EP\u2019s title implies, was a triumph in its own right, the project that gave Zsela the confidence to overcome her shyness and wield the full power of her voice. On <i>Big For You<\/i>, she left her comfort zone once more, this time mastering the art of listening as she made space for others to help mold her sound into shapes she hadn\u2019t yet imagined.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262149\" 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>            <b>The FADER: I saw <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QTo-RZTjXtY&amp;ab_channel=Genius\">a video<\/a> where you said the earliest songs you wrote as a kid came from dreams. Tell me more about that.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>Zsela:<\/b> That\u2019s one way I would write when I was younger. I\u2019ve been writing songs since I was a kid, but I was very private about them. They\u2019d be these improv songs that I\u2019d sing into a tape recorder \u2014 meandering, seven-minute songs \u2014 and play for my parents. It was insular like that for a long time, and I\u2019m still trying to understand what that was about.<\/p>\n<p>            Coming into my voice has been a long process.  The [<i>Ache of Victory<\/i>]  EP was an important step in that. On [<i>Big For You<\/i>], I got to explore and experiment more. When I finally really shed that fear, I found a real confidence. And then with [<i>Big For You<\/i>], I challenged that confidence to see how much more I could do.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Have you always thought of your melodies before coming up with lyrics?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            I\u2019m lyrics-melody first. Talking to some friends who [write melodies first] and then are like, \u201cOkay, now I\u2019ve gotta go write the words,\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cWhat?\u201d I wanna try that, actually. But I feel like if I left [the words] to the end, I\u2019d get stuck. Words dictate melody for me.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>So do you <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly write down ideas you have and then come back to them when you\u2019re writing melody, or does it all happen at once?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            It changes all the time. Recently, as an exercise, when I\u2019m working with other people and we\u2019re in the moment, I\u2019ve been trying to just word vomit and see what comes out. I love editing, so I\u2019m then going back in, like, \u201cThere\u2019s a good piece in this stack of jumble.\u201d<\/p>\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-262156\" class=\"content_block diptych triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper half_gutter_right gutter_btm\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/Zsela_press_11_credit_Rob_Kulisek_1_yqbwcf\/photos-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-robkulisek-com-rob-kulisek-a.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/Zsela_press_11_credit_Rob_Kulisek_1_yqbwcf\/photos-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-robkulisek-com-rob-kulisek-a.jpg 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1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/Zsela_press_11_credit_Rob_Kulisek_1_yqbwcf\/photos-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-robkulisek-com-rob-kulisek-a.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Zsela is listening\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Photos by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robkulisek.com\/\">Rob Kulisek<\/a>.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"media_wrapper half_gutter_left\" style=\"\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/Zsela_press_03_retouched_credit_Rob_Kulisek_1_iixwue\/photos-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-robkulisek-com-rob-kulisek-a.jpg\" 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1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/Zsela_press_03_retouched_credit_Rob_Kulisek_1_iixwue\/photos-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-robkulisek-com-rob-kulisek-a.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/Zsela_press_03_retouched_credit_Rob_Kulisek_1_iixwue\/photos-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-robkulisek-com-rob-kulisek-a.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Zsela is listening\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262151\" 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>            <b>You\u2019ve said trying not to be as precious about your work was a big part of making this album. Was it hard for you to cut stuff that you initially thought was great?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            I tried to practice that throughout. Nothing ever felt fully stuck. If it didn\u2019t feel right, we\u2019d break it down and rebuild. We have so many versions of these songs. If it was getting too crazy or going in a direction where we felt a little lost, we\u2019d bring it back to the heart, like, \u201cOkay, let\u2019s go back to the piano, just voice and instrument, and then build it again.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            I read this <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/9729242-to-listen-is-to-lean-in-softly-with-the-willingness\">quote<\/a> recently: \u201cListening is to leaning in with a willingness to be changed by what you hear.\u201d I think that\u2019s what breaks down the preciousness; you have to be willing to be changed. I\u2019m not saying I was perfect at it, but I was actively trying to stay nimble in the process, and to listen to myself and others.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262152\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cIt was a time of such heaviness, and I had such a strong desire for levity. Trying to keep that up is not always fun.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262153\" 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>            <b>Tell me more about working with Daniel Aged. Did you im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely click with him in your first session, or did it take a while?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I couldn\u2019t tell what our vibe was. You\u2019re not gonna read him at first. I was like, \u201cDoes this guy hate me? Are we having fun?\u201d He was just making stuff [on his own], and I was really shy \u2014 I know him so well now, he\u2019s like my brother \u2014 and then he went to the bathroom and I sang all my stuff, and he was like, \u201cWe have a song.\u201d I still didn\u2019t know if it was going well; I was nervous. Then, at the end of it, he was like, \u201cWanna do this again tomorrow?\u201d And we just kept going. He was in L.A., so I did most of my recording there, even when I was still living in New York.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>Does it feel easier to work at your own pace in L.A. than it did when you lived in New York?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Yeah, it feels very conducive to being a hermit and working that way. In New York, I only know how to be an extrovert, but I\u2019m also a very introverted person, and [L.A.] allows me to be that. I don\u2019t know. I was so young living in New York that I don\u2019t know what it would feel like now.<\/p>\n<p>            Being here now, I keep thinking of being in transit. \u201cLily of the Nile\u201d feels like a train. \u201cFire Escape\u201d feels like flying or falling. It\u2019s an elemental theme in the album: There\u2019s this tension and release, motion and stopping, pause and play. It\u2019s a clich\u00e9, but I think the moments of stillness inside the chaos are where I thrive.<\/p>\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-262154\" 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=\"Zsela - Noise (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HXrGNeCPr0w?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('262154');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262155\" 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>            <b>You address that visually in the video for your first single, \u201cNoise,\u201d which shows you walking very slowly toward the camera in the middle of Times Square, during what looks like rush hour. You lived near there for a while, right?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Yeah. It\u2019s so crazy, but I love it. I feel like I can really get in my zone there. My songs are all such imprints in time of who I was when I wrote them. I was living in Times Square when I wrote \u201cNoise,\u201d and the EP.<\/p>\n<p>            For the album, I wanted to come in a bit fresher and not draw so directly from [my personal life]. It goes back to the active listening thing; I wanted to be really present with what I was feeling and wanting to hear in the moment. It was a time of such heaviness, and I had such a strong desire for levity. Trying to keep that up is not always fun. But finding levity in the writing, in the making, was a challenge I really cared about for this album. [It was partly] to feed my soul, but I also want you to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>            Hopefully you do, but hopefully you also feel the tension of trying to keep that levity, because it\u2019s human to not be able to keep it up all the time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>It sounds like \u2014 in your writing, at least \u2014 you\u2019re always working against your current situation, looking for moments of stillness amid chaos and levity in heavy times.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            It\u2019s funny because the moment I stepped away from being so wrapped up in the process, so excited by the sonic worlds I\u2019d tapped into, or the new things I was trying with my voice \u2014 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah \u2014 I\u2019d be like, \u201cOh, this is heartbreak.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262158\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\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\/Zsela_press_02_credit_Rob_Kulisek_wtoiju\/photo-by-rob-kulisek.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_credit_Rob_Kulisek_wtoiju\/photo-by-rob-kulisek.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_credit_Rob_Kulisek_wtoiju\/photo-by-rob-kulisek.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_credit_Rob_Kulisek_wtoiju\/photo-by-rob-kulisek.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_credit_Rob_Kulisek_wtoiju\/photo-by-rob-kulisek.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_credit_Rob_Kulisek_wtoiju\/photo-by-rob-kulisek.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_credit_Rob_Kulisek_wtoiju\/photo-by-rob-kulisek.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_credit_Rob_Kulisek_wtoiju\/photo-by-rob-kulisek.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_credit_Rob_Kulisek_wtoiju\/photo-by-rob-kulisek.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_credit_Rob_Kulisek_wtoiju\/photo-by-rob-kulisek.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_02_credit_Rob_Kulisek_wtoiju\/photo-by-rob-kulisek.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Zsela is listening\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Photo by Rob Kulisek.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262161\" 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>            <b>\u201cFire Escape\u201d is the first song on the album that deals explicitly with matters of the heart. Those huge chords that come in after you sing about falling in love really drive the point home.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>            The \u201cdown\u201ds?<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>The \u201cdown\u201ds. Did you write the lyrics with those moments of catharsis in mind?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            It was pretty immediate, wanting to have that hit hard there. It was cool writing that song because that lyric was sounding really morbid \u2014 \u201cDay breaks on the fire escape and I\u2019m falling down\u201d \u2014 and then I tweaked it just a bit, to \u201cI\u2019m falling in love,\u201d like, \u201cThe falling down can relate to love, not just me falling off a fire escape. Even that little choice there was like, \u201cRight, there\u2019s another door that\u2019s lighter over here,\u201d but it can still have ambiguity; there can still be room for otherness. <\/p>\n<p>            And the \u201cdown\u201ds\u2026 We were being really playful, and it felt exciting when we stacked all that stuff on [them]. It really cracked open things sonically.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>People talk about falling in love all the time, but it\u2019s not too often \u2014 for me at least \u2014 that we consider what the \u201cfalling\u201d part actually means. Do you think of love as an actual falling process?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Yeah. I mean, it\u2019s like that trust fall vibe. There\u2019s a falling element, but there can also be a \u201cdown\u201d element. I don\u2019t know how to sum it up.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>You said earlier that the song was about both falling and flying.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Well, no. I just feel like\u2026 When I think of the energy, I see that. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>What are some of your first memories of fire escapes?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Probably in one of my earlier apartments. Me and my mom lived on Clinton Street on the Lower East Side.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>Did you spend a lot of time out there?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I mean, being a young person in New York City, you\u2019re on that fire escape into the wee hours. It\u2019s such a vibe, you know? You can just go out there and think about things.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262162\" 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 style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2352867096\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=89144167\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/zselaofficial.bandcamp.com\/album\/big-for-you\">Big For You by Zsela<\/a><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262163\" 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>            <b>Other than \u201cFire Escape,\u201d I think \u201cMoth Dance\u201d is my favorite song on the album. Tell me about your guitar solo.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            My teeth solo? I\u2019m really glad you asked. It just happened, you know? Sometimes, you have to pick up a guitar and play it with your teeth. I\u2019ve always thought of that song as the home of the project. It was one of the earliest ones, and it feels connected to the EP, but moving forward tonally and breaking away from that place. The other songs have kind of been the splinters off of that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            [\u201cMoth Dance\u201d] also holds a lot of the tension release stuff that influenced the rest of the album, the pauses and the breath. I say the home, but also maybe the heart, because there\u2019s that heartbeat rhythm through it. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262165\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cWhen I say \u2018big for you,\u2019 it always translates in my head to \u2018I love you.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262164\" 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>            <b>Talk to me about your relationship with rhythm. <i>Ache of Victory<\/i> was almost uniformly slow, but <i>Big For You<\/i> changes pace constantly. There\u2019s also the <i>AOV<\/i> remix EP, where you let other artists people totally re-imagine the rhythms of your early songs.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            That\u2019s what was fun about not being so precious, and thinking about these songs like different worlds. We played a lot with making things faster, pushing each thing as fast as it could go, and if it was too much, we\u2019d be like, \u201cOkay, this doesn\u2019t feel right.\u201d I\u2019ve learned that I love reimagining things. I love doing covers live.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>What do you like to cover live most?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            It\u2019s a mood thing. It\u2019s very context-based. Recently, I\u2019ve been covering Joni [Mitchell]. I love to cover [Carole King\u2019s] \u201cYou\u2019ve Got A Friend.\u201d I\u2019ve done a lot of shows in non-venue venues, and I like catering to the space and the crowd when I\u2019m thinking about a cover.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>It\u2019s interesting to think about covers in the context of your vocal style \u2014 that really striking, sonorous low range you can hit. Were there any other contralto singers you looked up to when you were still finding your voice?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I listened to so much different shit. I was obsessed with Ween and Prince and\u2026 I don\u2019t know. My parents are such music lovers, and they had, in hindsight, really good taste. I feel like I\u2019m still rediscovering [artists] I grew up with, like, \u201cLet me really tap into what\u2019s going on here because this is really good. I didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>Please tell me more about the Ween obsession.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I mean, my dad [(Marc Anthony Thompson aka Chocolate Genius)] was obsessed with them. It was kind of our thing. We went to a concert not that long ago. He has a Ween belt.<\/p>\n<p>            I love an artist where everything is like, \u201cWhat was this chapter?\u201d Each song is a different vibe. With the new album, I was definitely trying to [combine] different worlds and see how they could exist in one home.<\/p>\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-262166\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\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\/Zsela_press_99_credit_Jason_Omar_Al-Taan_bjslhv\/photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-jasonomaraltaan-com-jason-omar-al-taan-a.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_99_credit_Jason_Omar_Al-Taan_bjslhv\/photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-jasonomaraltaan-com-jason-omar-al-taan-a.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_99_credit_Jason_Omar_Al-Taan_bjslhv\/photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-jasonomaraltaan-com-jason-omar-al-taan-a.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_99_credit_Jason_Omar_Al-Taan_bjslhv\/photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-jasonomaraltaan-com-jason-omar-al-taan-a.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_99_credit_Jason_Omar_Al-Taan_bjslhv\/photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-jasonomaraltaan-com-jason-omar-al-taan-a.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_99_credit_Jason_Omar_Al-Taan_bjslhv\/photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-jasonomaraltaan-com-jason-omar-al-taan-a.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_99_credit_Jason_Omar_Al-Taan_bjslhv\/photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-jasonomaraltaan-com-jason-omar-al-taan-a.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_99_credit_Jason_Omar_Al-Taan_bjslhv\/photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-jasonomaraltaan-com-jason-omar-al-taan-a.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_99_credit_Jason_Omar_Al-Taan_bjslhv\/photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-jasonomaraltaan-com-jason-omar-al-taan-a.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_99_credit_Jason_Omar_Al-Taan_bjslhv\/photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-jasonomaraltaan-com-jason-omar-al-taan-a.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Zsela_press_99_credit_Jason_Omar_Al-Taan_bjslhv\/photo-by-a-target-_new-href-https-www-jasonomaraltaan-com-jason-omar-al-taan-a.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Zsela is listening\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Photo by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonomaraltaan.com\/\">Jason Omar Al-Taan<\/a>.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-262167\" 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>            <b>You\u2019re quoted in <i>Big For You<\/i>\u2019s bio as saying its title \u201ctouches on the causal versus the intentional dance we play between being full of you and full <i>for<\/i> you. Can you expand on that a bit?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            It\u2019s about the complexity of the magnitude of space we take and the space we fill up in love, being big for you or big <i>because of<\/i> you. When I say \u201cbig for you,\u201d it always translates in my head to \u201cI love you.\u201d It can be really simple and it can be really complicated.<\/p>\n<p>            I love duality. I love not fully defining something. This album isn\u2019t mine anymore; it\u2019s yours. And however you define it, I leave that to you. But the \u201cyou,\u201d for me, is not fixed. It could be you, or it could be me.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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