{"id":6704,"date":"2026-10-05T15:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:15:02","slug":"i-am-the-through-line-between-all-of-my-different-interests-and-inspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6704","title":{"rendered":"I Am The Through Line Between All Of My Different Interests And Inspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI have realized that I am the through line between all of my different interests and inspirations, I don\u2019t worry about them feeling cohesive, because I know that what I\u2019m going to bring to the table is always going to bring that thread of connectivity\u2014whether it just be a concept, an idea, my melodies, or background vocal choices.\u201d<\/p>\n

On her eighth album, Popstar, Tinashe pulls together a wild assortment of threads, creating a vivid, singular statement that is as satisfying to listen to as it is to dissect.<\/p>\n

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Since breaking through in the mid-2010s with the club-ready dreamscape \u201c2 On,\u201d Tinashe has forged her own path, resisting any attempts to stick her in a genre box. Popstar is a wild ride, with the heavy bass on the speedy \u201cToo Easy\u201d bumping up against the hyperactive glitch of \u201cMelatonin,\u201d and even a big ballad, the larger-than-life vocal showcase \u201cI\u2019d Rather Be Alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Popstar shows how Tinashe has become more confident in her artistry, and how that self-assuredness has inspired her to expand in a way that defies people\u2019s expectations, with songs like the boastful \u201cFlashbacks\u201d and the high-velocity \u201cCloud 9\u201d taking concepts of form and structure, then throwing them out the window.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I think of the word \u2018popstar,\u2019 I don\u2019t think of it as something that\u2019s exclusionary of other genres,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s all of these things combined. It\u2019s all of them when they come together and are presented in this amazing package. This is an embodiment of that energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have realized that I am the through line between all of my different interests and inspirations, I don\u2019t worry about them feeling cohesive, because I know that what I\u2019m going to bring to the table is always going to bring that thread of connectivity\u2014whether it just be a concept, an idea, my melodies, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,96,346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversations","category-featured-circle","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6707,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions\/6707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}