Ameriie Talks about Cymatika and her soon to be WW #1 first single, Firestarter!
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Album title: Cymatika Vol. 1
First single: “Firestarter” (Due this Summer)
Album sounds like: “Trance and electronic,” says Ameriie. “80′s new wave, but not in the sense of the sound, particularly, but more so the song structures themselves.”
“Even with vocal approach, some of the songs my sister listened to and she didn’t even know it was me. I wanted to experiment with androgyny. Some of the ways I was singing, it’s kind of androgynous. I felt like, if we strip away who we are on the outside physically including gender… ultimately, we are spirits that have no gender.”
Producers: Andre Harris of hit R&B duo Dre & Vidal. “He did probably a majority of [the album],” Ameriie says.
She’s also been in the studio with producer/engineer Riley Urick, who in addition to producing for The Cheetah Girls and Tyrese, has also worked with uber-successful K-Pop label JYP Entertainment, home of Wonder Girls and 2PM.
Collaborations: Tiger JK of famed South Korean/American hip-hop group Drunken Tiger, who appears on a Korean remix of buzz single “Outside Your Body”.
“There’s another song I wrote called “Sodom and G,” like Sodom and Gomorrah. The song on the surface is about a broken relationship. It’s destroyed. I compare that to the fiery destruction the city of Sodom and Gomorrah [faced]. I used the biblical story as an example as far as looking back that, I’m looking back at everything I left behind. The twist in “Sodom and G” is that, because I’m so into ancient astronaut theory, [I included] the theory that extraterrestrials were here in ancient times and helped build the pyramids. It’s also the idea that Sodom and Gomorrah wasn’t destroyed by a fire ball, but was actually destroyed by nuclear weapons from extraterrestrials. People might be like, “What?!” but I use a lot of layers when I’m writing; I like to really layer. Its fun for me as an artist and it really allows me to get into it and tell the story I want to tell.”
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Ameriie still in the studio with "Checkmates"
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-Still with Def Jam
-She talks about starting the process of mixing "New Wave, Acid House"
-"80's feel, although it's not an 80's album"
-"A couple of dance songs on the album, but it's not a dance album"
-"It might be two albums in one"
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Why must another R&B artist make dance music. I love her, I am so disappointed that she is going down that track . Can't wait until dance music is dead