An Interview with Sally Boy
Our long-awaited interview with Erez of Sally Boy reveals the artist's plans for the future, as well as creating music from his past. We also catch a glimpse into Sally Boy’s quarantine routines, how wildfires add aesthetic, and some piping hot gossip. Here are the highlights!
Gabriella Gray: As an artist in quarantine, do you feel like that’s had any effect on the type of music you want to make or the statement you want to make?
Sally Boy: It’s made effects in ways I haven't quite noticed yet. I’ve felt a growth in what I want my music to sound like, in general. Maybe that just comes from the amount of time I’ve spent with myself. In the past month or two especially, I’ve felt extremely excited for the next chapter of my music, and [the] music I’m about to start working on. I’ve already finalized one song for my record, and I’m very excited. I have this new desire to make everything intentional.”
The way I’ve been thinking about this album is [looking back on] the past 21 years of my life, and now I’m past all that stuff. I understand some things about myself--maybe I don’t. But I’m getting the hang of it.
GG: Where do you think the music industry is going to go from here? Where do you see yourself?
SB: I think people are itching to get back to live shows. I don’t know when we’ll be having live shows again… For the music industry as a whole, I think it’s in this disarray. What I’ve really gotten from Sean and other people, it’s very social media-heavy, and the people getting listeners are those who have made themselves big on TikTok. Getting your music in front of people via their phones, it’s a weird dystopian reality, it’s a hard truth!
In the next two years, I want to look back and think [about the album]: that’s the project I wanted it to be. Everytime I listen to my music, no matter how finalized I think it is, there’s always little tweaks that I could do to make it the perfect record. I want to have a record in two years at least that I can look back on and think “Okay, I don’t need to change anything.”
GG: What if your intention for this album changes?
SB: When I look back retroactively at music I’ve made, I think less of the intention behind it and more about how that version of me executed that intention... That’s the thing about being a musician: to the world, you’re documenting your growth, you’re showing them how you’re getting better. But they don’t look at it like that - they see the current version of you. But for me, every time I release music, I’m weeks ahead of that. “You guys like that? You should hear what I’m working on right now”.
The interview with Sally Boy is live on Mixcloud, as part of the KXSC Live series.
- Gabriella Gray, Live Show Director