Last year, she handed a completed album in to Interscope/Polydor. "I thought they were going to like it," she says. "But when I handed it in, they told me that I didn't have a hit." She went back to the studio and recorded "Chasing Time" – one of the most instantly appealing dance-pop anthems on the album – only to be told that the label preferred another song, the twitchy house groove "Soda," as a single. "I just spent a whole 'nother ****in' four months in the studio trying to come up with some ****, and you want to go with ****in' 'Soda'?" Banks says, still incredulous. "I really just lost it. That was the day you saw me on Twitter, like, 'The ****? I'm tired of talking to these white guys about my ****.' It felt like they were playing some sort of head game. And you know I love conspiracy theories. I was like, 'They're trying to brainwash me! **** these guys!'"
Interscope let Banks out of her contract this July, setting the stage for her to release Broke With Expensive Taste through Kwatinetz. The album has won enthusiastic reviews from critics and fans, and Banks is fiercely proud of her work – even if in some ways it represents a past self she's left behind. "I'm just sad for you that it took this long for you to hear it," she says. "This was popping to me when I was 21. A lot of the old songs are a very little girl's way of thinking: 'Yeah, my *****, mmmm, da da da, I'ma get you with sex.' Now that I'm 23, my lyrical content is a little more mature."
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"This maturation should be evident on her next project, a sequel to her 2012 Fantasea mixtape: "Of course, it's going to be another mermaid-themed thing, but I'm wanting to take it to the next level. I feel like the first one was kind of just like surface. We're in our boats, but now we're going under."
"I just spent a whole 'nother ****in' four months in the studio trying to come up with some ****, and you want to go with ****in' 'Soda'?" Banks says, still incredulous. "I really just lost it. That was the day you saw me on Twitter, like, 'The ****? I'm tired of talking to these white guys about my ****.' It felt like they were playing some sort of head game. And you know I love conspiracy theories. I was like, 'They're trying to brainwash me! **** these guys!'"
I'm a little bitter she's talking in interview about Chasing Time and Soda as the singles when neither of them are single worthy. All the while completely paying dust to the most single worthy song on the album, Ice Princess. But ok Azealia. I'm glad she's in a much better place now though.
can't wait for the follow-up
But ok Azealia. I'm glad she's in a much better place now though.
