{"id":656030,"date":"2025-03-06T22:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sasami-on-blood-on-the-silver-screen-and-cosplaying-as-a-pop-star\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:55:10","slug":"sasami-on-blood-on-the-silver-screen-and-cosplaying-as-a-pop-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sasami-on-blood-on-the-silver-screen-and-cosplaying-as-a-pop-star\/","title":{"rendered":"#SASAMI on Blood On The Silver Screen and cosplaying as a pop star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<style>\n<p> article.custom .custom-title, article.custom .custom-media .caption {\n   color: ;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-attribution, article.custom .custom-attribution a {\n   color: ;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-268674\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      The lore behind SASAMI\u2019s glistening pop pivot\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      The genre-shifting artist discusses her latest album, <i>Blood On The Silver Screen<\/i>, and music that keeps the vibes high.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">David Renshaw<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\"triple_gutter_left triple_gutter_right 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\/SASAMI_by_Miriam_Marlene_oiv6lx\/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-clairo-haim-rostam-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SASAMI_by_Miriam_Marlene_oiv6lx\/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-clairo-haim-rostam-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SASAMI_by_Miriam_Marlene_oiv6lx\/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-clairo-haim-rostam-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SASAMI_by_Miriam_Marlene_oiv6lx\/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-clairo-haim-rostam-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SASAMI_by_Miriam_Marlene_oiv6lx\/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-clairo-haim-rostam-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SASAMI_by_Miriam_Marlene_oiv6lx\/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-clairo-haim-rostam-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SASAMI_by_Miriam_Marlene_oiv6lx\/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-clairo-haim-rostam-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SASAMI_by_Miriam_Marlene_oiv6lx\/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-clairo-haim-rostam-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SASAMI_by_Miriam_Marlene_oiv6lx\/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-clairo-haim-rostam-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SASAMI_by_Miriam_Marlene_oiv6lx\/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-clairo-haim-rostam-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/SASAMI_by_Miriam_Marlene_oiv6lx\/sasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-clairo-haim-rostam-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"SASAMI on &lt;I&gt;Blood On The Silver Screen&lt;\/i&gt; and cosplaying as a pop star \"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Miriam Marlene<\/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\"><br \/>\n      <!-- <span>Share<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target='\"new\"' href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefader.com%2F2025%2F03%2F06%2Fsasami-blood-on-the-silver-screen-clairo-haim-rostam-interview%3Futm_source%3Df%26utm_medium%3Dtw%26utm_campaign%3Dshare&amp;text=SASAMI%20on%20Blood%20On%20The%20Silver%20Screen%20and%20cosplaying%20as%20a%20pop%20star%20&amp;via=thefader\" class=\"new_social_footer_button twitter new_social_share_button\" data-ga-event-category=\"Social Share\" data-ga-event-label=\"Twitter\" data-ga-on=\"click\" data-ga-event-action=\"cilck\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Twitter-8d78f695280aa3f8a4461702c68e9fcbfd6042af1600c62d49fdec4b735fb57a.png\"><br \/>\n    <!-- <span>Tweet<\/span> --><br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/logo-snapchat-5f1563935ac089d0cf1773f642ddbfb6cdb16e8c4ac14fec95a3c11b6f963389.svg\"><br \/>\n        <!-- <span>Snap<\/span> --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-268664\" 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            SASAMI never thought she would make a pop album. \u201cLike a lot of kids who came up in an indie or alt or punk scene I didn&#8217;t really feel represented by mainstream pop culture growing up,\u201d she says on a Zoom call as she overlooks the ocean from her Northern Californian home. Pop was something she would hear at the mall or a dance, uninvited but not unwelcome. As a teen she was more interested in Elliott Smith and System of a Down, influences that bled into her first two albums: 2019\u2019s <i>SASAMI<\/i> and <i>Squeeze<\/i>, released in 2022. Those projects introduced SASAMI first as a sensitive and melancholic shoegazer and then an artist writing about loneliness through a distorted nu-metal filter.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            It wasn\u2019t until she ended up supporting old school friends HAIM on tour (or \u201cscaring Midwesterners by covering \u2018Toxicity,\u2019\u201d as she puts it) that the idea of making pop music crossed her mind. The result is <i>Blood On The Silver Screen<\/i>, her Rostam-produced and Clairo-featuring widescreen new studio album. As a classically trained musician, SASAMI\u2019s study of pop songwriting is precise and impeccable,with songs that swoop and soar in all the right places. Her heart-swelling anthems share DNA with her older music but with new and bold structures that would have teams of Swedish songwriters nodding in <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>roval.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cGetting older I realized that there were a lot of situations where I actually enjoyed hearing pop music,\u201d she says, now far removed from her days as a genre-purist teen. In fact, she\u2019s become something of a pop advocate. \u201cOn tour you\u2019re just mainlining Lady Gaga and Rihanna to keep the vibes up to. I&#8217;ll be working out and pop music will be really motivating or I&#8217;ll be at karaoke with friends and having a super cathartic moment screaming Kelly Clarkson lyrics. The feeling of empowerment and uplift in pop music is something I find really exciting because my music is mostly depressing or violent.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Ahead, we spoke to SASAMI about working with collaborators Clairo and Rostam, how her metal album almost ruined her voice, and the paranormal backstory to the album\u2019s visuals\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-268667\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left embed\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SASAMI - Honeycrash (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EAMUs4F01g8?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>\n<\/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-268666\" 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: When did you realize that your third album would be a pop album? <\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>SASAMI:<\/b> Touring one album is a precursor for the next album for me. Touring <i>Squeeze<\/i> with a metal band meant I trashed my body and my voice. I was headbutting bandmates and screaming every night. I&#8217;m not a professional metal vocalist so I wasn\u2019t screaming with good metal technique. I&#8217;m screaming bloody murder, which you can only do for so long before your body&#8217;s like, \u201cBitch. you&#8217;re not dying. But you are going to if you keep doing this.\u201d By the end of touring I knew I had to honor my voice as an instrument and not destroy it. I wanted the new songs to have vocals at the forefront of the album and to focus on songcraft. My goal quickly became to understand pop songwriting as much as I could.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>One of the standout tracks on the album is \u201cIn Love With a Memory,\u201d which features Clairo. What was it about her that made her the ideal collaborator for that song? <\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            There came a point where the narrative [of the song] became very ambiguous, with one person choosing between staying and trying to fight for a relationship that had really flourished in the past and the other road being the unknown and moving on to the future.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Eventually I realized the story didn\u2019t belong to just one person, but both sides of the relationship. I wanted a collaborator that had a voice that was kind of similar to mine, but had its own kind of spirit. Clairo has that timeless voice where she can sing any genre and it sounds like her, she has a movement to the melodies she sings. I was very lucky that Rostam, who co-produced the song, produced Claire\u2019s first album. So she was already part of my musical family\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>How did you come to work with and collaborate with Rostam? <\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            I am good friends with the HAIM sisters and during the pandemic I was about to sub for Alana while she filmed <i>Licorice Pizza<\/i>. So I was in rehearsals with HAIM and Rostam, who produced a lot of <i>Women in Music Pt. III<\/i> that we were going to tour. I knew for <i>Blood On The Silver Screen<\/i> that I wanted to work with people who were good at bridging rock and pop, and he was the obvious choice.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>Have you played the new album for HAIM? <\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Not anything specific, but I definitely would say that they were a huge inspiration on the record. They have all these amazing references in their music but they&#8217;re so singular in their sound, which is something I think a lot about with pop music. The best pop artists can almost be parodied because their sound is so distinct, and that&#8217;s something I&#8217;m still really working on and struggle with all the time.\n          <\/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-268665\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left embed\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SASAMI - Slugger (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SZXbimXyyDU?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>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-268668\" 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>On \u201cSlugger\u201d you reference turning 30 and how your life feels different. Have you found that writing lyrics has changed as you&#8217;ve gotten a little bit older?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            It&#8217;s a weird thing because making an album is such a long process. Over the last ten years or so I have only made three albums. And obviously you change so much over that period of time. I was talking to my friend who&#8217;s a winemaker and they&#8217;re putting out cuv\u00e9es every couple months but for me it\u2019s every three years. That\u2019s why there are such big shifts between albums, because I am kind of ADHD and I need to be stimulated by what I\u2019m doing. That usually means doing something really different. Obviously I had a lot of personal experiences between my late twenties and my early thirties. That&#8217;s, like, a big pivotal moment, I think, for a lot of people. I am much more focused on storytelling now than I was in the past.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>Obviously, image and visuals are as big a part of the pop world as the music. Can you explain a little about the character you\u2019re embodying on the album cover and in the music videos? <\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            For me to feel like I\u2019m not just selling a product there has to be an element of world building, because that feeds me. To me, this is all performance art. I&#8217;m just a music nerd living by the ocean in Northern California. Right now, I&#8217;m wearing full fleece from head to toe. I don\u2019t wake up and feel like a pop star. It\u2019s a costume that I put on.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            I worked with [creative director] Andrew Thomas Huang and we built this denim-clad alien creature that has arrived on Earth and is cosplaying as an American. She has curly hair and wears denim and boots but her big goal is to understand the concept of love. At the same time love is this shape-shifting character itself where we were thinking about sex without attachment, historical versions of love, like, a version of love where you demolish someone and get demolished yourself. So I\u2019m this alien who is learning about all these different relationships.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            It\u2019s important to have these details. It\u2019s like going to a restaurant and the spaghetti is good, but you don&#8217;t know the nonna who brought the tomatoes from Sicily. You know what I mean? Everything that&#8217;s good has a lore.\n          <\/p>\n<\/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\">David Renshaw<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\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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