Celeb News: Tinashe talks 2nd Album

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“With this album, I have a very much clearer direction going into it of what I wanted as opposed to just shooting darts at the wall,” she says. “[With Aquarius], I knew what I wanted to do, but everybody that I was working with really had no clue who I was or what I wanted to do. They came up with a lot of stuff that wasn’t necessarily true to me. What I’ve learned with this second album is to not waste time making records that aren’t going to end up on the project. Don’t waste time spending the first day getting to know the producer and just cutting whatever they want. I used to do stuff like that, breaking the ice, and we would end up with a lot of material that I didn’t necessarily want in the end.”

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As for what is right for the singer in this phase of her career, Tinashe promises bolder hooks and newer sounds. “With Dr. Luke, I’ve actually been in the studio with him for five days total and we’ve made a handful of records,” she says. “The momentum felt really cool. With the second album, you always want to push it forward and I think that that one thing I was looking for from him was those big hooks, those super catchy, huge, smash hooks while still integrating that into what I do.”

With Martin onboard “seven or eight songs, depending on how many we keep,” the California native’s hoping to have the golden opportunity to bridge her R&B past with what seems like a faster, poppier future. “Obviously I feel like I’ve kind of created a lane for myself,” she says. “I’ve definitely created a sound, and I’m not trying to just abandon that or the fan base that I’ve created doing that type of music. [With this album], I’d like to play with some more tempos, to not have it all be in the mid-tempo range even though a lot of my music is. It’s been an adventure for me to figure out how to do my version of an uptempo, because the fastest song I’ve kind of ever really put out is ‘2 On,’ which is really only kind of like an upper/mid, 95-beat jam. I’m not really interested in doing like, down-the-middle EDM songs, but I’d like to figure out how to do that uptempo. I’m definitely trying to make songs that are hooky enough to cross over.”

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“I need to get my No. 1,” she says with determination. “I am so impatient that I’m already thinking so far in the future. In my head we’re in 2016 and I’m winning my Grammy for this next album that’s already come out. Once I released Aquarius, even though I knew I had a lot of touring left to do, I felt like I was creatively done with that project. I’m 22, so might as well do as much as I can now while I have no responsibilities.”

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likeadarkparadise

She better not diss the flawless Aquarius...

YR.

Max Martin and Doctor Luke?

Bitch is COMING

Jeiboy

Along with Meghan, she is the most passion hungry popstar we have. Come through!

SHICD

Yes KWEEN. Serve more chill bops like Aquarius and Cold Sweat

BadBitches

Full balls-the-walls pop plz

Tower

This sounds so good

She better become A-Lister next year

Syňth

Tinashe means business! She is a force to be reckoned with.

KLatz

Imagine those SMASH uptempo bops with her performance skills. We ain't ready for the flawless singles/videos/album Tinashe is about to serve

!Blue!

Serve me another amazing album queen

Wink

Bolder hooks and newer sounds with Max Martin and Dr Luke?

E-Raine

I just saw this on Twitter. I'm so ready.

KatyLegendperry

give me another Feels Like Vegas

mypaintoyou

I need more pretend type of songs and all hands on deck

Rihhyonce

Ha Good Girl Gone Bad is coming.

#Justice4AllHandsOnDeck

Rider

Bring it @ Queen

Matangi

YASSSSS

Daydreamin

Kweennn
So the album coming this year right?

Team_Avatar

I love how in control she seems. Even though she's working with these HUGE producers, you get the sense that she's not afraid to challenge them on anything she feels isn't consistant with the vision she has for her album.

My only issue is that Aquarius was an album that was 2 years in the making, and it shows in the quality of the album. I don't want her to rush to make this uptempo pop album and we lose everything about her that made her so unique and special.

With that said, if she can merge her vision from Aquarius with some proper crossover pop tracks...well let's just say everybody's favorites will have to hold on cause she's gonna come for every.single.person.

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Originally posted by Wink

Bolder hooks and newer sounds with Max Martin and Dr Luke?

With anyone else I'd definitely side-eye, but based on everything I've seen from Tinashe in interviews and based on Aquarius, she's someone who's not afraid to butt heads with these guys if she feels its not true to who she is as an artist or if it doesn't fit the vision she has in mind for an album.

Also, Max and Luke know hooks well, and Tinashe is familiar with producing having produced tons of tracks on Aquarius. Maybe she can push something interesting out of them. She's clearly not going to be content with anything generic or cookie cutter. If she doesn't think its good enough, she'll call them out.

Scabandplaster

Yes.