Oklu, a restrained queen of Hyper Pop. “I have removed me in the form of romanticism”

For a long time, Oklu’s songs have pushed us elsewhere. Very far away, very high. In the past vapors, when his high wallpaper stomach, his love Chimper and his passion – thwarted hair mammals (rodent or back). Oklu forced us to travel in our memories, but in the universe, with his cosmic synthesizers and concert, collecting collections naked and unknown planet.

Merylu Maineel, in his real name, today releases his first album, Stifle enoughBut it’s not a beginner. After a magnificent mix, VeryReleased in 2020: Remixes and Cooperation with Apple, Casey MQ with AVANT-GARDE POP Caroline Polachek –Obvious), synthetic jams (Harvest sky), and Lulabi is beautiful to cry (Blade) All are powered by the deep questions of introverts who are looking for their music as close to its very strong emotions. Meeting.

Madame Figaro.- What were your inspiration sources since issuing Very five years ago.
Oklu.- Many things have changed in my life. I have felt that in recent years it is necessary to decentralize myself to make my look more from abroad. It is very soft, very slow transition period, but with which I feel in the sentence. I spent a lot of time, since my 20 years, concentrating my thoughts about what happened inside me. First, so that we can express themselves as well as possible. It affected my musical consumption, cinematography, I was interested in doing things that took me through universal. And it was affecting, I think many aspects of my life, and in particular, my romantic relationships. I connect many connections between the relationship with art and music, and what I have with my colleagues.

How is it characterized?
I think of the reasons that make me find someone beautiful or something. I recently realized that some things, even if inspiring, they suffer. I knew I need to develop to change my relationship to love.

How have these changes been translated?
There was a process of dismantling my relationship with people. And it had an impact on the relationship in art in general. This has led to a fairly specific form. When I create it, it’s always easy and accessible to me to be inspired by hyper romanticism. I have always been comfortable in this register, and in my relationship it was the same. Difficult and tragic things fed me. But I wanted to get rid of it, and it has an impact on my music. I have removed me from a way of romanticism. It’s not a matter of changing my person to this day, but to be able to share a little more. Often everything is beautiful, because they are strong, intense, they make us feel alive. But how do you feel like when you want to protect you from very strong emotions?

I’m just 31 years old and I have my slap on the screens. Physically it is disturbing me

Ocular

What gives you emotions today?
A few years later, I can’t find virtual areas, in which I feel artistically moved. I’m only 31 years old and I have screens slap. Physically hurts. My relationships have also changed in the networks with algorithms. Ten years ago, the internet was a space with full swing. YouTube was a huge source of inspiration, every day with discoveries. I had a real exchanging what I was consuming and what I could put in front of it. Now it’s just my television. So I thought what to turn to me to create.

And have you turned more to reality?
Yes, and the people around me, in the political sense of the term. I have, I think authorized. At a very popular stage of my twenty, I highlighted myself that, however, were of interest to my family and in my education. Politics, social problems, even if I think I had to go through this process in my work in my work. Everything was done very naturally in a very organic manner, but I changed the concentration, I turned to others more. I was also pregnant. A event that drives me to take care of something else.

I find the real melodic research in pop today becomes more rare

Ocular

You have received ordinary courses. Does it still play a role in your songs?
It is a part of me in a fairly inconsolable way, I have in love with harmony, a melody. I think that today’s real melodic research is becoming more rare. What he also marked, in connection with my scientific teaching, is a musical “expression” that we use a lot when you are an instrument. I love this notion because it’s an analogy for me in a very important language. When we talk, we make sentences that sound, movement. Is the same with music. Classic classic you learn about the first things, the sentence, you have to think it, because you have the beginning and end. I love this idea I think he said to me a lot that I was trying to reproduce it naturally. The songs tell a story that even tells himself beyond the words with a melody. Moreover, in general, my language is mostly in music, more than textbooks.

You are often associated with the Hyper Pop genre. Do you agree and how do you set this movement?
Most of us have this label, but we have nothing to do. I think about 100 gecs like artists who are new or a bus who sometimes make noise. I do things that approach classical music more. But what connects us is energies, our emotion. We are going to look deep into the essence. There is also the use of sound. We all use self-assessment and, in general, we all have a lot of digital learning music. But what remains an extremely man is that we strive to communicate emotions, pushing the intensity. That’s why the word “hyper pop” is. By me, even when I work in sweetness, quiet, I try to go too far.

Stifle enoughFrom ok lou (because music). In a concert, on March 4, La Siegle on May 13, May 13 in Paris.