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“I don’t really like AI art at all,“Jessy Lanza says at the beginning of our conversation, beaming in from her home in LA. “It’s always quite bad in my opinion.” The subject comes up because the music video for her track “Midnight Ontario” – on the brilliant new album Love Hallucination – is made with the help of artificial intelligence. Despite her disapproval of the form, Lanza was “blown away” by the work of digital artist Infinite Vibes, recruiting him to create the stunning visuals for the album’s second single. The resulting clip is what Lanza refers to as a “hybrid” – rather than just using AI, the intelligence is used as an animation tool alongside the artist’s own work. Kaledescopic images of palm trees and fireworks melt into ones of cityscapes and fluttering eyelashes, all to the sound of Lanza’s melismatic vocal and thronging production style.

Lanza’s new album, as a whole, is a treatise in emotional excavation, wrapped in liquid production and meticulously cut beats. “I could spend the night or I could go/I could live my life in limbo”, she sings on the opening lines of “Limbo”, turning the emotional grey-areas of relationships into an 80s synth banger with a chanting chorus. On the brooding “Don’t Cry On My Pillow”, Lanza recounts quotidian disputes, singing “Don't use my car/Don't put your shave cream up on my shelf anymore.”

While Lanza admits that the album was inspired by relationships (“bad relationships, good relationships, just a lot of relationships”), was this always the plan for the record? “No not really”, she responds. “I got married in the middle of [making] it. So that was a big step. I never thought that I would get married and then I did.” Ultimately, for the artist, Love Hallucination is a reflection, not only on “what I thought would happen in my life” but “what actually did happen in my life”.

FAVE YOUTUBE VIDEO: OPRAH WINFREY’S GOSPEL BRUNCH 2005

Jessy Lanza: My God, this video makes me want to cry just thinking about it. If I’m having a bad day, or just feeling down at all – or if I’m feeling good, it doesn’t really matter – I watch it. I could watch this video any time of day. It’s just amazing. When Patti LaBelle and Chaka Khan start singing, that’s pretty incredible. Basically, the very moment that they all start to sing, the lifts in energy when they each start improv-ing, those are my favourite moments.

The bit with [former First Lady of California] Maria Shriver is really funny, where she’s just like, ‘I hope they don’t come over here.’ It’s like, don’t worry, nobody’s gonna ask you to sing. And whoever did the edit has their own magical touch, because I think it adds a lot to it.

FAVE TIKTOK: @6xe03d

Jessy Lanza: So, I gotta give credit to my husband Winston who came across this. I love how every moment you’re like, ‘maybe he's going to cook?’, ‘this is going to be bones for a broth’ or something. Where's this going? And then he pulls out that jumbo syringe. Each moment is surprising as to where it’s going to go. Then I really wasn’t expecting that he was just gonna glue them on his head.

That guy’s whole channel is him just making different things. Pretty amazing. It’s really relaxing to watch too. I love all of his process. Just videos of him using different herbs from his garden, making stuff, pulling out weird contraptions, like that jumbo syringe. I don't know, that just really gets me, just to have some of those laying around.

FAVE MEME: WALT JR. FINAL MIX

Jessy Lanza: I first came across this on Twitter, with the kid from Breaking Bad. They’ve imposed Ableton or something over a computer where it’s not actually there. It’s him showing his parents his track that he made. Everything’s just maxxed and it’s all in the red. It’s so stupid.

I thought it was funny because most of the stuff you make on Ableton does sound like shit. It’s more of a trial and error. Also him showing his parents and them being really proud. He just sweeps the EQ [frequency equalisation] through it and it just sounds really bad. It’s a funny video.

FAVE APP: PURPLEAIR

Jessy Lanza: Purple Air is an air quality app where you can buy these monitors, install them and then your data will begin to read on the app. So it’s all user based information. It’s pretty crazy. I don’t have a monitor myself, but I look at it every day. It helps me realise, ‘oh, it’s not me, it’s that the air quality is really shitty. That’s why I feel lethargic.’

I have an anxiety that there’s something in the air that I'm not aware of. I don’t know if when you were a kid, they had scare tactics at school about carbon monoxide poisoning. I think that there was some presentation when I was little that got in my head and now it’s just shifted into other things, like I’m going to be poisoned unknowingly and then just die, you know? The city where I’m from in Canada is a steel town, and so the air quality is notoriously bad. I’m always checking around where my mom lives and where my sisters live when I’m there visiting.

FAVE WEBSITE: FORGOTIFY.COM

Jessy Lanza: It makes me a bit emotional, to think of all the songs on Spotify that have never been played. Thinking of it positively, it’s like you get to discover something, and then thinking of it in a kind of negative, sad way, it’s like the website of broken dreams almost. But it is a new life for the songs. But it's melancholy, for sure.

There have been some strange songs, or things I’ve been excited to show my husband because they’re funny or weird. If I’m just hanging out, or taking a break from focused work and I want to feel like I'm doing something, I just search on Forgotify.

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