11/11/2023 0 Comments Phlo finister mish wayCall me an old fuddy duddy, a music snob, a purist or whatever it is you want, but it’s the truth. Now I realize that I have simplified in one sentence a very complex social construct, but for pop culture purposes there really is no need to over intellectualise the entire thing. And every single generation, whether they care to admit it or not, borrows from previous generations, adds their own flavour (sometimes) and voila a new culture is born. The first and most widely documented ‘Youthquake’ occurred in the 1960s, though I would argue that every single generation of young people experiences a shift in culture of sorts, perhaps some too small to warrant any kind of social murmur but each equally as important.Įach generation of young people wants to define who they are based on their current social, political, economic and importantly their cultural reality. “So if people are like, ‘Who is Phlo Finister?’ Tell them, ‘Phlo Finister is a youthquaker, with a gun.The Mirriam Webster dictionary defines a youthquake as a shift in cultural norms influenced by the values, tastes, and mores of young people. “OK, so I’m going to ask myself a question and then I’m going to answer it,” she says with a laugh, tossing her hair over her shoulder and leaning into the recorder. As soon as I get that gold, I’m bouncing.”įor those who still don’t get Finister after checking out the EP, she has a soundbite ready to go. But this is where I live, this is where I’m from. I want to go back now I really don’t want to be here. Here, I’m overlooked and people ignore my music. The way I was being courted there was different. I should start a life for myself out there,” she says, pondering while looking at the window. So when I got there, I didn’t want to come back. “I felt like I had to get there and be in London and really live it, not just read about it. She even plans on calling her upcoming debut full-length “Youthquaker,” which she hopes to release next summer. I love darker music, but I know I’m a light, and I have to exude that.”įinister’s obsession with the youthquaker movement almost saw the aspiring singer abandoning America after taking a trip to London to explore its roots. “It was sort of meeting the medium of putting hip-hop with a pop, ‘60s sound and embracing that. And I kind of mix that with the ‘90s R&B thing: 702, Xscape, Deborah Cox, Aaliyah,” Finister says. “I grew up listening to classic rock like the Doors, Led Zeppelin, and Janis Joplin is one of favorite singers. Those unlikely pairings are the result of her across-the-board influences. Dre beat (“Xxplosive”) through the Doors’ “Riders on the Storm” and rides Garbage’s “#1 Crush” over 2Pac’s “Hail Mary.” The first single off “Crown Gold” is a smoldering R&B-driven take on the classic Nancy Sinatra (by way of Cher) standard “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down),” which Finister mashed up with Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones Pt. “In the ‘90s, TLC and Aaliyah and all those girls were dressing with the baggy pants and a look, so to me it was important to take R&B and give it a new image in a sense and put all my influences of ‘60s pop culture with that, because it was similar to the ‘90s hip-hop/R&B thing.” Me being in my youth, it was important for me to embrace that,” she says. They were all dressing really mod, but they were a part of pop culture. When I saw the photo of Sedgwick that they took for Vogue in her house and it said youthquaker a whole different world. Her music is driven almost wholly by her look, and she takes cues from the youthquaker movement sparked by ‘60s style icons Edie Sedgwick and Twiggy. Given her towering height and beauty, you could easily confuse her for a model (she did styling for Def Jam Records after dropping out of high school). I want to make a classic R&B, but the R&B that I’m making is going to be more avant garde.”īorn in Oakland and raised in L.A., Finister instantly attracts glimpses with her bone-straight hair, perfectly manicured eyebrows, vintage mod attire and sultry makeup that would make Amy Winehouse proud. What I’m doing, I want to be more innovative for my generation. “People are copying so much these days, it’s hard to separate. I think it can be authentic and classic, but it can have a new spin,” she said while sipping a Thai tea at downtown L.A.’s Demitasse Café. “Urban fan bases need to be revolutionized.
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