![]() The music around it is kind of secondary.ģ. I’ve always looked at myself as wanting to be a great lyricist above all else. I was listening to rap and hip-hop but I was also listening to Alanis Morissette and Ani DiFranco, even jazz from the ’40s. Growing up, I listened to so many different things people might not expect of an urban teenager. So that splintered sensibility is new? Or does it extend further back? Conversational Lush, there are conversations on there, interludes.Ģ. So I started listening to Frank Ocean and Bei Major, understanding that there’s no structure it can be however you creatively want to take it. At the end of last year I started listening to mixtapes-I never really had. Is the variety of styles more a reflection of your musical taste, or the range of listeners you want to grab? Your Conversational Lush mixtape, from last spring, is such an eclectic-sounding affair. Fresh from wrapping her brightly hued debut, the daughter of a songwriter-producer couple looks back at the sounds she’s shaped-and those that shape her.ġ. But in most of the singles from the 23-year-old’s upcoming summer release, Perfectly Imperfect, she’s howling those bluesy twists and turns over an unusual mix-like the violins tickling against 808-snares in “Refill,” Varner’s woozy toast to romance. When it’s rolling, Elle Varner’s voice screams classic, muscular R&B.
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