If electronic dance music is supposed to be about losing yourself in the drop, someone forgot to tell Tiffany Day, who has been using it to find herself instead.Ad 0:00 Click for sound 0:00 / 0:00 Over a decade ago, the hyperpop breakout was a 15-year-old with headphones on, sitting in her bedroom trying to reverse-engineer the feelings that Whethan’s ‘XE3’ flip was producing somewhere inside her cerebrum.
“I was trying to dissect what exactly I was hearing and why it made me feel so emotional,” she recalled in an interview with EDM.com.That question, it turns out, became the blueprint for an entire career.
Day has since grown from superfan to scene fixture, releasing anguished bangers across projects that have explored grief, anxiety, nihilism and the gnawing claustrophobia of becoming someone people recognize.Her latest single, a collaboration with slayr called ‘CONSTANTLY,’ purées glitched-out trap and angsty hip-hop into a convulsive ripper that torches your brain’s genre-sorting department like the office in SpongeBob’s mind when he forgot his own name.
Day says she’s particularly proud of the track’s last drop, where “there’s so many layers that you can’t even really tell what’s going on individually.” That’s ironically an accurate description of the artist herself.While the broader EDM industrial complex has spent decades perfecting the art of helping people temporarily forget they have student loans, Day, who also moonlights as a dubstep producer under a secretive alias, has other plans.
We caught up with Day to discuss her influences and deep ties to the electronic dance music scene.Read our Q&A below.
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