\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVijat M*<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tThe album is so cohesive, thematically and sonically. How was working with Dvsn\u2019s Nineteen85?<\/strong> \n\tSo this is your first time working with one executive producer from start to finish?<\/strong> \n\tAs a music journalist, I don\u2019t have a technical music background either, but I\u2019ve found that people understand things like, \u201cThis song feels<\/a> like when a princess runs down the stairs to her Prince Charming at the bottom of the castle,\u201d too, maybe better. How did you talk about music when you didn\u2019t have that technical language?<\/strong> \n\tYou\u2019re also such a words person. Even the way you creatively speak and conceptualize things in interviews seems to translate to your lyrics. Where did that come from for you? Did you read a lot as a kid? Talk to adults a ton? I was an only child, so I was always chatting with grown-ups.<\/strong> \n\tMorgan, do you have a comment on this since you got brought up?<\/strong> \n\tMariah: The other day, I did an interview and they asked, \u201cDo I have any regrets in the music industry?\u201d And I said, \u201cWell, what I don\u2019t<\/em> regret is the fact that I haven\u2019t made my career as political as it could be. I see that in order to go to the next level that awards you certain accolades or whatever, you have to move with certain diplomacy [she pronounces it unconventionally<\/em>]. They\u2019re like, \u201cWhy did she say diplomacy like that? And what is she talking about? Maybe she\u2019s talking about selling her soul and joining the Illuminati.\u201d<\/p>\n
I think everybody should be a big Dvsn fan. I feel like they\u2019re a really good tag team, for sure. Me and Nineteen85 are also a really good tag team. He definitely showed me the value in collaboration. Before I worked on this project, I was more the type to be like, \u201cI don\u2019t need no help. I\u2019m just going to use this very basic YouTube beat that has no evolution at all.\u201d I thought that was going to be enough. He helped me realize what it could be like to think outside of a box and explore more texture.<\/p>\n
Yeah, for sure. I had never been to the studio with a producer and just sat there and worked on something. I used to get so much anxiety from it, so with him, it was definitely a slow start. I didn\u2019t know what to say or what to tell him. I\u2019m not super well-versed on musical terms. Obviously, as you grow in making music, you learn more about it, but at the time I couldn\u2019t be like, \u201cOh, maybe if you cut the metronome on, then I can tell you that I wanted to be on the fourth beat instead of the third beat.\u201d Working with other people who are not just musically inclined but knowledgeable on things like that, it made the process more technical.<\/p>\n
I had went to mix some of the music with someone named Jimmy Douglass<\/a>. There\u2019s a term I use a lot when I\u2019m mixing a project: \u201cI just want it to sound more fluffy, less sharp.\u201d What I\u2019m saying is that my voice is too clear. I feel like I can hear all the crevices of my voice and I\u2019d rather it sound more like\u2026Not an echo and it\u2019s not necessarily super reverb-y, it\u2019s like something else. I didn\u2019t know if he knew what I was talking about. I remember saying to him, \u201cI really don\u2019t know the technical terms to describe it.\u201d Jimmy Douglass is a very-established-for-years-and-years type of mixer, and he was like, \u201cOh, don\u2019t worry about that. Back in the day, John Lennon told me, when we were mixing something he was doing, [that] he wanted it to sound like the Dalai Lama.\u201d At that point, I felt like you can describe it in many ways as long as the other person is willing to have some trial and error until you get something that you\u2019re satisfied with.<\/p>\n
I feel like my sister \u2013 I only have one sister [motions to Morgan] \u2013 tells me that the way I piece words together [is] unconventional. I don\u2019t know. I went to college, [but] I\u2019m not blaming college. You know when you see a new word for the first time and you don\u2019t know what it means? It\u2019s almost like I don\u2019t want to take the easy route and just define it. It\u2019s like I\u2019m trying to use the context clues to figure it out before I actually define it. Sometimes I\u2019m wrong, but I think over time, the words that you didn\u2019t know at all, I feel like they just stick out. I struggle with exactly what I\u2019m trying to say, but there\u2019s almost always a word that could describe it. Maybe you just don\u2019t know the word yet. And I do feel like when I find new words, I like to try to incorporate them. I just try to use what I think I know.<\/p>\n
Morgan: I actually told her that sometimes when I\u2019m listening to her interviews or watching her, she speaks as though English is not her first language. Not in a bad way, obviously you got to be incredibly intelligent to know multiple languages. But like somebody who is just learning these words. If you\u2019re actually listening and you know what the words mean, it makes sense. But I see a lot of times online, people are like, \u201cWhat is she talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n