I love Player, but beside Party Favors and Ride Of Your Life, I rather see it making a Deluxe edition or a Japanese edition or something. Nothing wrong with the track, but with the way this era already is a trainwreck, I rather have as much new stuff as possible.
I really love Player (Solo version ofc) and I like the other songs she released but I'd rather have new tracks instead of old songs. I can add them to the album on my iTunes easily
JET: You’re coming into your second album and people fell in love with you for a sound, for a look. Wou recently tweeted: “I want to grow. I want to be better. We are made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.” That sounds like a slippery slope to some fans– can you elaborate on that?
Tinashe: I think that’s a challenge that all artists face because, yes, initially people do love you for a particular reason, whether it be a song or something that really inspired them. But as a creative person, we’re always being inspired by new things. We’re always evolving and changing and growing as people too, everyone grows and evolves, and to expect someone to stay the same for their entire life, or their entire career, is pretty simple minded honestly.
So as much as yes, you do have to cater to the fans that have been there from the beginning, you also hope that they have enough sophistication to grow and evolve with you, and if not then perhaps you just gain new fans. But as a human being, and as a creative person, there’s always an evolutionary process happening.
JET: So what’s the evolution on this album, Joyride?
Tinashe: On this album I think there is some because I have traveled the world and I’ve seen so many new cultures. I’ve seen how people embrace music and how they listen to stuff and what they’re in to. I think it’s opened my eyes to even breaking down the genre barriers even more, like maybe even stepping outside even more of what people think what R&B is and pushing those boundaries. That’s been really important to me. To make people question what genre is this? Where does this fit?’ That’s been important to me with this album.