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Mariah the Scientist: Ry Ry World

Check out our exclusive interview with the songstress below. 

Your last project 'MASTER 'was a very emotional album with a lot of ballads. What’s the biggest difference in this new album in comparison to your last project ?

 

There are some emotional moments, but it's more upbeat. I think it's not as dreary, you know. You don't cry every moment on this one.  

 

 

“2 You” has been released, and it’s definitely true to your upcoming album “Ry Ry World”. What else can we expect from upcoming music videos  — are the aesthetics pretty similar to “2 You”?

 

So the next one that's going to come is for the song called "Aura'' and I've been telling people that you should watch “Aura” and ''2 You" in reverse because there's kind of a little bit of a correlation. I was on Twitter ranting this morning  — not a rant, but every now and again, I just go on these like Twitter spells, that I wind up deleting anyway. But I was explaining that both videos are metaphors. “2 You" is more like a post-death kind of thing. I know it sounds kind of crazy, but it's almost like when people say they have near-death experiences and then they “see the light.” It's like I saw into the light almost, and then the next one will explain more of how we made it to that point, at least metaphorically, it will. 

 

 

What’s the core theme that you want listeners to understand about your new album?

 

So the cover with the arrow coming through my chest, I was just saying that it's just all a big metaphor for the fact that I think, you know, love is like the death of us. Maybe not everybody, but for damn sure the death of me. 

 

 

You once described your sound as “A summation of your agony.” Is this an on-going theme listeners will notice with “Ry Ry World”?

 

I guess it’s not so agonizing now. It's different. I think I'm not in agony now. It's more like after agony like maybe it used to hurt, and now it's just a little scarred. It’s not as hurtful. 

 

I read that you started writing through poetry. What about this outlet appealed to you the most?

 

 

I don't even know how that came about. That wasn't even anything serious for me at all. It wasn't anything I was taking seriously. It was just, you know, really aimless. It wasn't even like a hobby. It was just honestly meaningless to me at the time, but it's started to sound good. You know, so I kind of just divulged a little bit more, but it didn't have much relevance or any significance in the beginning. Not really. It was just very casual. 

 

What does the writing process look like for you now?

 

To be honest, I don't want to say I don't write much, but I have these intervals, where it's like, I binge write. You know, like it depends. I look for beats. So the thing about finding beats, I usually don't write anything without a beat. Sometimes I do, but that's super rare. It doesn't happen often. It would have to really be something on my mind for me to do that. So when I found producers that I liked on YouTube, I would subscribe to their channel and basically just wait for them to post new beats, because I didn't know them personally, to ask. They usually don't post something new every day. Some of them do, but the ones I like, they weren't really like that they were much less active. 

 

So, it'd be like they would post maybe once a month, maybe once every two months they would post like, a couple of beats, maybe like five, but they would post them back to back. You just had to look out for when they were active and then I would just sort through those. If any of them struck up anything in me, I would write to it. I just look for a beat that I feel is unique or it makes me feel some sort of way. It's probably harder to write when I don't have anything to talk about. A lot of artists go to the studio every day and they like force something out. I don't really do that. I feel like I should try, though. I think I'm going to start going to the studio more often, like on a daily basis just to see, you never know what you could make, but I don't really do that. I don't make irrelevant things. 

 

 

You came up with your name from your previous bio major. What was the moment you realized that college wasn’t for you and how did you find the courage to go against your parents' wishes?

 

So the last semester I was in school, I knew there was a break coming up, Easter break, and I went to a Catholic private college. So I knew that we would be able to go home and stuff like that. So, I went home and I was telling my mom that I'm not going back and you know, I'm gonna just wing this shit, basically. She was like, "You definitely are going back to school, I don't know what you're talking about."

 

I just literally was like, “No, I'm not going back”. I mean, I thought about it for a long time though. Like maybe for like a couple of weeks before I didn't go back. I wasn't going to class, honestly, this is really bad. I wouldn't recommend that to anybody. Like, don't stop going to class. I just did because I was just so withdrawn from it at that point, and I just had my mindset on something else, but don't get it twisted. I was very much passionate about what I was in school for. I just saw the potential in another route at the time. Plus college is really expensive and medical school is even more expensive and they do not give scholarships to medical school. So I was really just weighing my options, to be honest.

 

I feel like young people are very much impressionable, and some are not like other people who are dead set on what they want to do early on. I'm almost envious of them and granted, I thought I knew what I wanted to do and I would go back to school, you know, practically in a heartbeat. I still have a thing for science. I just feel like I could work equally as hard at this, you know? And it might pay off. 

 

 

How did you get into music since the path you were supposed to take is much different from the path you are on now?

 

 

So when I quote/unquote dropped out and went home, by then I had put some music on SoundCloud and I knew that it was like circulating. People would send feedback through Instagram, DMs, and I signed a deal. I was not really interested in the label thing at first. I didn't really see the value in it initially, you know, because you don't really need a label to have a significant career, these days. Then eventually they started throwing around a whole lot of magic numbers and, you know, once I realized that I could also own my masters, it didn't hurt, you know, at the time it didn't seem like it would hurt. 

 

What are some top albums that have inspired your current sound?

 

So be honest with you, I literally don't listen to any music. I know this sounds ridiculous. I don't want to say not any music, but I just like barely even listened to music. Especially not new stuff, you know, it's usually like, just older music that's just repetitive for me. I know it sounds crazy, but I just don't be listening to music. 

 

I mean, like, you know, sometimes every now and again. I just listen to my own stuff, I guess the car when it's time for a project to come out, but realistically on a daily basis, I don't' listen to much music. Plus like when I'm dating and I'm hearing what the other people are listening to, I just know for a fact they won't be listening to the shit I listen to. Sometimes you might catch a good one and they might fuck with what you fuck with but that is so unlikely. So I just more so sit back and hear what my friends play.

 

 

What are some next steps for you? Any plans for tourin

 

I definitely want to tour. There have been some tour offers this past couple of weeks and stuff. I've been trying to make sure that whatever we do in general, you know, makes sense for the kind of music I make. Like I have this weird anxiety about performing for an audience where my music doesn't resonate. Like just something about that. I feel like there's going to be a huge disconnect and it will be super awkward for me to perform for people who don't fuck with me, you know? I guess I shouldn't look at it like that. I should look at it more like I should be having fun and, you know, enjoying the music that I make, which I do, but I just want to make sure whatever I do it's just received well, but I definitely plan on touring. I don't necessarily want to do it by myself. You know, I think it will be good to either support someone else's tour or go with someone, but definitely more plans to perform. 

 

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