He was only nine when he premiered. In spite of this, his parents let him see her because her babysitter, Phoebe Augustine, was the actress who played “perhaps seeing her was a mistake. Today he continues to produce a mixture of fascination and fright,” says Hadreas, artistically known as, sitting in the Madrid office of her Spanish record. Although, because of the way he says, it does not seem that this experience caused a trauma, but quite the opposite. “I remember Angelo Badalamenti’s soundtrack with all sharpness. When I listen to it, it is as if I returned to that moment of fascination. It makes everything look strange, that everything shines in a very specific way.” Something of that attraction for Lynch’s imagery has ended up leaking in the first two videos of his new album, especially the one that illustrates the song, which he plays with his admired. “What I like about Lynch is that he has very disturbing moments and at the same time fun. He can create a melodrama and make something that makes you feel very uncomfortable.
The conflict between what is seen and what is not seen is the creative engine of this native of Des Moines (Iowa) that spent his childhood in Seattle and that, with, already has seven recorded albums, which condens 15 years of musical transformations. His style has been growing and fattening. The compositional methods have been varying (“at the beginning, the first thing he wrote were the letters”), but the difficulty in connecting his inner life with what happens around him continues there. That paradox struggle to which he referred only a few lines behind. “Being aware of this dichotomy causes me a lot Angustia is the one that guides several of Lynch’s characters.
How to face maturity and assume that it is getting older is an issue that emerges in some of its new songs. With the 43 already fulfilled, Hadreas has already found that no one prepares us for what comes when youth runs out. . “The fact of being a musician makes you believe that you can lengthen your adolescence, because the music needs that confidence in oneself. That illusory state reinforces you. But the greater I do, I notice that the more they cost me certain things. Before I was able to read many books, I did not affected me so much the small details. Insignificant things and the time very human that they tender me and make me feel vulnerable. When you are young, when you are young, when A plane I feel fear. ”
Glory contains visible indications of those stadiums. It is also a work that synthesizes all the ways in which Perfume Genius has sounded in the past. The intimate and naked composer, the contemporary sound explorer who is not afraid to approach traditional instruments, something that has a lot to do with having as a producer since 2017. In this album queer of the old Springsteen, which does not mean that it is considering conquering the majority market. He admits that this came to obsess him in the past, but no longer takes his dream. The world has changed a lot since that mourning Learning, its 2010 debut. Today, the voices of the occupy a prominent place in any of the flanks of pop music, but the music of perfume genius may continue to be too tormented for majority tastes. Hadreas assumes it without dramas. “The important thing is to continue doing what I do. I don’t want to get pressure, that would paralyze me.”
But in the face of its contradictions, there is its militancy for the rights of the LGTBIQ+collective. At the end of 2024 he collaborated on him album, promoted by the collective, NGO that was born in 1990 to raise funds for. The album is a great mosaic of musical collaborations that seeks to give visibility to the artists of the trans community. Among the themes included, one signed by perfume genius and, Point of Disgust. “I saw Low when I was 16 years old and since then I am a fan. His music has meant a great influence on mine, the lyrics, the way they had to sing Alan and Mimi [Parker, batería y cantante del grupo, esposa de Sparhawk, fallecida en 2022]possessing one of my favorite voices of all time. Alan and I got very excited when recording, because the issue was Mimi; I was very committed to this cause. ”
With the advent of, that cause is in serious danger. Hadreas believes that, when we talk about defending the rights of the most vulnerable, of people of non -normative sexuality, any politician in his country can no longer be trusted. “Transa is necessary because we need to empower ourselves more than ever. We can not depend on anyone to feel safe. We have to take care of each other, I have to take care of my trans friendships, because right now there are people who are doing is the opposite.” And it finishes: “Trump is so absurd, so stupid. It is like a cartoon, but it is real, deeply real and evil, and terrible things are happening because of it.”
