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How Taylor Swift inspired a new generation of singer-songwriters, in their own words

If you listen to <keyword id="12257531" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="gus-dapperton" source="Orion">Gus Dapperton</keyword>'s <keyword id="11898471" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="music" source="Orion">music</keyword>, you'd probably imagine its creator to be polite, self-aware, and supremely chill - almost disarmingly so. You would be exactly right.Dapperton arrived at our <keyword id="11905869" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="interview" source="Orion">interview</keyword> location, a bright Japanese restaurant he selected in <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@tara.raani2/video/6978227978752871686?sender_device=pc&amp;sender_web_id=6941467851099670022&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;is_copy_url=0s_copy_url=0">Brooklyn's famously hip Bushwick neighborhood</a>, exactly on time. He made a point to shake my hand, even though I had my back to the door and hadn't risen to greet him. Then, in a move I found both strange and endearing, he took the chair next to me instead of sitting across the table.This guileless charm is the core of Dapperton's work. Though he's ambivalent about the oft-used label "bedroom pop," he said he understands what it's trying to communicate.Dapperton's favored blend of shimmery synths and Beach Boys-worthy guitar licks feels warm and familiar - like a dream you had long ago, or a half-awake heart-to-heart with an old friend. His writing style is reflexively candid, just as he is in real-time."I'm comfortable just saying whatever comes to my mind because I know I'm not going to say anything too rude," he told me over a plate of spicy tuna rolls, chopsticks poised mid-air.But, as he explained, that comfort was learned - not intrinsic."In high school, I was miserably introverted. I didn't even plan on being a performer and then I kind of had to perform. Over time, I got better at it," he mused. "Somehow, I came to enjoy it."By "had to perform," Dapperton meant that his passion and talent collided in a way that simply refused to be ignored.<div type="image" title="gus dapperton film photo 1" height="1600" width="2400" msid="86812767" hostid="261"></div>Dapperton, 24, grew up as Brendan Rice in Warwick, a farm-heavy town in upstate New York. He spent most of his time skateboarding and editing videos on his computer, not auditioning for school plays or crooning at talent shows."My sister was always a super talented singer, but I wasn't good. I wasn't super gifted at the guitar or anything, either. I just dabbled," he explained. "When you're young, you're pushed to do the things that you're 'better' at. But I loved music."When Dapperton was in eighth grade, his school's newly-installed computer lab presented an opportunity. His class was instructed to create a song in GarageBand, and whichever one the teachers liked best would be played on the town's radio station. Dapperton stayed late after school every day, tinkering away, determined to make sure they picked his.They did."Immediately I was like, 'This is what I want to do for the rest of my life,'" he said.Dapperton originally envisioned himself as a producer, making beats behind the scenes. But many producers also act as cowriters, and when Dapperton tried his hand at lyricism, something clicked. He began to discover his own voice, both physically and proverbially: "I realized the songs I was writing were meant for me."As he developed his unique musical style, Dapperton used different monikers to play with a variety of genres: Spazzy McGee made "old-school hip-hop beats," Fvcking Digital whipped up electronic remixes, and Pablo Pistachio only worked with classical piano.Gus Dapperton was the persona behind his official debut single, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjlTOqagjuY">"Moodna, Once With Grace,"</a> which he released in 2016.The name suggests a collision of youthful simplicity and stylish panache, allowing the artist to write music that felt true to both his inside and outside. It stuck.<div type="image" title="gus dapperton first aid press photo" height="3000" width="1998" msid="86812772" hostid="261"></div> <div type="image" title="gus dapperton press photo" height="3000" width="1929" msid="86812775" hostid="261"></div>Dapperton's early releases were heavily inspired by artists like Odd Future and King Krule - fellow skater kids who had "weird voices" and no inhibitions - but he also cited supermassive stars like The Beatles, Timbaland, and Britney Spears."When I hear my sister sing those big pop songs, it's impossible to deny how beautiful they sound," he said. "My family would all be in the car chanting <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a> songs and stuff. I think 'Love Story' by Taylor Swift is one of my favorite songs of all time. My dad would just turn up the volume as loud as possible.""That's why I never denied the pleasures of pop music growing up," he continued.Indeed, Dapperton's music-making ethos is equally rooted in pop's exultant, communal power and a private individualism typically favored by singer-songwriters."I definitely always have the intention of sharing my music and making it for people to enjoy," he explained. "But I make songs for me, without any outside forces messing with the agenda."Although Dapperton was courted by several major labels at the dawn of his career, he knew it wasn't time to commit to a contract. His music is currently distributed by AWAL, a division of Kobalt Music Group that <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8482434/kobalt-awal-anti-record-label">allows artists to retain majority ownership of their music</a>.Superfans anxious for a spillage from Dapperton's vault will be disappointed. He estimated that he's sitting on 250 completed songs and "probably 10,000 beats.""I make a ton of beats and then just never come back to them," he said. "Basically, every time I get up to 500 files in Logic," which is a popular music production platform, "I just get a new computer, because it stops working after that."Even more mind-boggling: Dapperton described the bulk of his unreleased songs as catchy ear worms that will never see the light of day."When I see myself writing a song to be a hit, I'm like, 'I just know I'm never going to come back to this again,'" he explained. "I do those things for practice."Dapperton revealed he's made about 40 full songs since the 2020 release of his sophomore studio album, "Orca" - not including the three new tracks on the album's deluxe version, which was released in early June.<div type="image" title="gus dapperton film photo 2" height="2400" width="1600" msid="86812777" hostid="261"></div>When I cautiously requested a peek into the new musical direction, Dapperton laughed."I don't really answer to anyone, so I can just talk about this," he said.Only a small selection of those 40 songs will likely make the final cut, he revealed, but his third album is definitely taking shape. He already has the title decided."A couple weeks ago, I had this revelation. I have the vision. I have all the songs' names," he said, teasing a "slightly more R&amp;B and jazz-oriented" sound. "It's not about New York City, but it's a love letter to my New York City."While "Orca" explored the cycle of depression and healing, Dapperton's forthcoming music will tackle another powerful dualism: love and fear. The two often go hand in hand, but Dapperton is oddly at peace with the turbulence. Contentedness is where he squirms."I wrote this poem recently for the intro, and I say this line like, 'It happens when everything is lost,'" he said. "Sometimes, when I'm so happy, I'm like, 'Well, I'm not going to make a fucking good song for a while.'"Dapperton, who has been dating photographer Jess Farran for more than three years, described the new album's themes as "growing with love, and heartbreak, and time, and being scared of growing old, and growing old with this monotony that's healthy for you."With 2 million monthly listeners on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/6sHCvZe1PHrOAuYlwTLNH4?si=sOTi0KntRk2-U2-iuYMFQw&amp;dl_branch=1ch=1">Spotify</a>, nearly 40 million views on <a href="https://gusdapperton.lnk.to/youtubeYD">YouTube</a>, a show-stopping <a href="https://youtu.be/WzldfXlxGdc">late-night performance</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb6Scz-5YOs">a top-40 hit under his belt</a>, it seems absurd that Dapperton has only just begun to feel at home in the "indie darling" conversation - let alone that he's one of its leading voices."I only had about six songs out when we started touring. We had no production, no sound. It was just four of us at the time - my sister, who plays keyboards and sings, and then my bassist and my drummer," he said. "We've played all these big stages and stuff, and it's taken up until <a href="https://youtu.be/tkllCCqlhtA">this year's Lollapalooza</a> for me to feel like I finally belong there.""I mean, I feel like I belong playing music for people, but on main stage?" he asked, his voice filled with awe as he noted: "Tyler, the Creator is headlining it later!"That serendipity had actually struck once before - at a festival in Paris. Dapperton performed mere hours before the former Odd Future ringleader took the same stage."It looked like we were just some band off the street that they got, like we were busking or something," he chuckled. "But this time, I felt like we had everything prepared. I felt so comfortable up there. I was not nervous whatsoever. It was just pure joy."After playing <a href="https://www.musicmidtown.com/">Atlanta's Music Midtown festival</a> last month, Dapperton will officially kick off his <a href="http://gusdapperton.com/tour/">North American tour</a> on October 17 in Carrboro, North Carolina. And if his sparkly eyeshadow, ever-changing hair colors, and cinematic music videos are any indication, fans are in for a full sensory experience."It's about individuality. It's not about trying to stand out so people listen to your music," he explained. "I want to be fashionable because fashion is an art form. I want to make good music videos because directing music videos is an art form. I want to nail a great performance because it's an art form.""I want to put 100% into all those things. I don't want to just put 100% into music and then put 0% into everything else that I'm still choosing to immerse myself in. That's lazy."

Eating sushi with Gus Dapperton, the polite king of bedroom pop

<ul class="summary-list"><li>There's a trend on <keyword id="6762469" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="TikTok">TikTok</keyword> where people secretly flip the camera on their family members, partners, and pets to catch their reactions.</li><li>The TikToker usually learns a dance and then pretends to film it in front of their audience.</li><li>The reactions are completely genuine because the viewers have no idea they are being filmed.</li><li>While some pets look intrigued or alarmed following their owners' arm movements, parents, grandparents, and partners are caught cheering the dancer on.</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>There's a trend going around on TikTok called the <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/flipthecamera?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#flipthecamerachallenge</a> where reactions of loved ones and animals are secretly caught on camera.The TikToker sets up their phone to record a viral dance sequence in front of their partner, family member, or pet, but instead of filming their moves, they flip the camera around. This means genuine reactions to watching their loved one dance around are recorded.There are hundreds of videos with the hashtag that show how people unwittingly respond when given a free show — often it just confirms how they are the TikTokers biggest fan. Babies had some excellent reactions, even if they started off sceptical. Other audience members weren't so impressed, or were caught in the act of making fun of their TikTok-obsessed family member. Some of the best reactions, however, are arguably from people's pets, who respond with a range from alarmed, to intrigued, to thrilled. And as with every trend, there's the opportunity to turn it into a self-deprecating meme. Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/tiktoker-with-huge-family-gains-300000-followers-in-a-week-2020-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This TikToker gained 300,000 followers in just a week because people are obsessed with how many siblings she has</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/when-did-charli-damelio-chase-hudson-breakup-cheat-lilhuddy-2020-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok's 2 biggest stars confirmed their breakup with matching Instagram Stories after a diss track stoked cheating rumors</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/eitan-bernath-chef-food-influencer-tiktok-cooking-videos-2020-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How a teenage chef created a social media empire with millions of views, from quarantine cooking to an appearance on 'Chopped'</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/billboard-hot-100-tiktok-dance-challenge-drake-doja-cat-weeknd-2020-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok took over this week's Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, showing how the app is becoming part of the music industry</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/tiktok-relationships-dating-celebrities-david-dobrik-addison-rae-daisy-keech-2020-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">11 of the most surprising relationships between celebrities and TikTok stars</a>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/best-flip-the-camera-challenge-on-tiktok-catches-adorable-reactions-2020-4">Insider</a>

People on TikTok are secretly flipping the camera on their loved ones and pets to catch their adorable reactions to their dances

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9388385" type="AGENCY" weightage="60" keywordseo="benee">BENEE</keyword> released her debut studio album, "Hey U X," on Friday.</li><li>The 13-song tracklist includes her breakthrough hit, "Supalonely," which blew up this year as a TikTok dance and is now certified platinum in the US.</li><li>Insider spoke with BENEE about her sudden rise to fame, songwriting process, and why the success of "Supalonely" doesn't intimidate her.</li></ul>BENEE is a Gen Z-born, intimidatingly cool singer-songwriter with ever-changing hair and a smash record.So, on the surface, it may seem natural to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgUq0M8TP0c">compare her to artists like Billie Eilish</a>, Melanie Martinez, or fellow New Zealand-bred wunderkind Lorde."I even had some horrible old radio presenter here being like, 'Oh, she's like a knockoff Lorde or something,'" BENEE says during a Zoom <keyword id="28970" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="interview">interview</keyword> with Insider. "I was just like, 'Shut up.'"Truthfully, the 20-year-old rising star only resembles these beloved artists in that none of them are easily copied or defined.And within this genre-fluid generation, hardly anyone is blending sounds and emotions quite so nimbly as BENEE — whose breakthrough hit "Supalonely" is a poignant meditation on inadequacy, disguised as <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/Supalonely-feat-Gus-Dapperton-6759409576673560577?lang=en">TikTok choreography bait</a>."Of course, I have no problem with being compared to Lorde," she explains. "I just think it's silly, because the people that I'm being compared to are doing very different things, and they're all very much their own kind of artist."Indeed, whenever a young woman cuts through industry fluff with a resonant new sound, critics and commentators seem to unearth the same old yardstick. Just ask Lady Gaga (<a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7549797/lady-gaga-zane-lowe-madonna-comparison">"the new Madonna"</a>), Normani (<a href="https://www.bet.com/music/2019/08/05/normani-claps-back-beyonce-comparison.html">"the new Beyoncé"</a>), or Ariana Grande (<a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6229461/ariana-grande-mariah-carey-comparisons">"the new Mariah Carey"</a>). You'll notice — and BENEE has — that people rarely have the same instinct to compare male artists."Maybe some of the dudes are all writing about the same bloody thing: b----es and drinking, straight up," she laughs. "Which I have no problem with, and I listen to a lot of that kind of stuff. But I do think about that [double standard]. It's kind of sad."<h2>BENEE grew up as Stella Rose Bennett, a self-described 'classic weird, artsy parents' kid'</h2>"I would make mud pies and stuff," she says, chuckling. "I learned to play the saxophone when I was 8 and did play the guitar, so I was always around <keyword id="6354530" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="music">music</keyword> and surrounded by creatives."BENEE said she was always a "visual learner," due in part to her dyslexia, and full of physical energy. She excelled at team sports and "always loved, just, to sing."As a tween, she refused to sing for anyone — until she won an award that kicked her passion into overdrive."I was like, 'Oh, maybe I'm not that bad at this kind of thing,'" BENEE says. "Yeah, I think that was when I realized that I loved it, and maybe people didn't hate my voice, which was nice to know."<div type="image" title="benee 1" height="686" width="915" msid="79208951" hostid="261"></div>At just 18 years old, BENEE (then known as Bene) began attracting eyes and ears with her second official single, <a href="https://youtu.be/ubE_ac2wYPQ">"Soaked,"</a> which has been certified double-platinum in Australia. Her fourth single, 2019's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3gmU0GOTXI">"Glitter,"</a> went the same way.BENEE released her second EP, "Stella &amp; Steve," on November 15, 2019. But it wasn't for another four months that "Supalonely," the EP's second track featuring Gus Dapperton, would become the preferred soundtrack of TikTok's most famous dancers — including the app's reigning queen, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@charlidamelio/video/6801497356689771781?lang=en">Charli D'Amelio</a>.March 2020, the month of lockdowns and existentialism, may have been the weirdest possible time to become a musical phenomenon.But even today, billions of streams and <a href="https://www.thehits.co.nz/spy/pop-sensation-benee-the-surprise-big-winner-at-new-zealand-music-awards/">a handful of awards later</a>, BENEE seems unfazed. "It's all very chill," she shrugs. "It's nice to be from New Zealand, I think, because no one here is a huge deal. They are in the rest of the world. You have Lorde, but when she's here, she can walk on the street without being bothered. So I feel like it's a nice kind of environment to be in, especially when you have crazy stuff happen.""I think the people around me remind me that I'm a normal person, who just maybe has something cool going."<div type="image" title="benee 2" height="600" width="972" msid="79208952" hostid="261"></div>During our 30-minute conversation, I count four different times in which BENEE uses the phrase "It's all very chill." On the cusp of releasing an edgy, indie-pop treasure and garnering <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/awards/9469380/2021-grammys-best-new-artist-nominations-contenders">potential Grammys recognition</a>, she is instinctively self-deprecating and reflexively polite. She demurs at my suggestion of an impending best new artist nomination, shrugs off the concept of post-"Supalonely" pressure, and peppers our conversation with the word "pardon?""Listen, if I compared my new sessions that I'm doing now to the success of 'Supalonely,' and I was out here trying to make another thing that would blow up, I feel like I wouldn't be making music that I want to make," she explains patiently. "So I try not to think about that.""It's just going into a session," she continues, "and experimenting, and trying to make a song that feels really right, and then releasing it. That's what happened with the album."<h2>'Hey U X' is a spectacular debut, full of contradictions and expert songwriting</h2>BENEE says she always begins a song with lyrics, while her producer, Josh Fountain, helps execute her envisioned "vibe."The album kicks off with "Happen to Me," a retro-rock glide that boasts a stunning guitar loop — one that bands like Fleet Foxes or Beach House would be jealous of.Lyrically, BENEE says she's particularly proud of the song."I think I allowed myself to become pretty vulnerable whilst writing it," she says. "I mean, I talk about anxiety and depression in that one, which is something that I haven't sung about or written about before.""Originally, maybe my manager was like, 'Really? Do you want to start off with that one?' Because it's probably the saddest one," she adds.In spite of BENEE's perennially chill Zoom posture, her lyrics betray a perceptive, anxiety-soaked brain that never stops whirring.But in contrast to a stereotypical sad-girl album, no one could ever get bored or lost amongst these 13 songs.BENEE skates easily from the spaceship party music of "Sheesh," which features vocals and production from Grimes, to a '70s guitar riff on "Kool." "Same Effect" has a hopeful, slightly mischievous gleam, while "If I Get to Meet You" bounces and skitters.The album manages to feel both experimental and consistent. Despite the risk of sonic whiplash, every song is anchored by BENEE's elvish voice and shrewd writing.Every line feels accessible and true, though not every line is deeply personal. "A Little While," the only song that BENEE wrote and produced entirely by herself in lockdown, is a fictional love story."I didn't really have any romance going on or anything, so I decided to make one up," she grins.<div type="image" title="BENEE press image" height="3000" width="2028" msid="79208956" hostid="261"></div>Other details that seem fantastical are actually rooted in fact. In the opening lines of "Winter," BENEE sings, "Zombies tryna sleep / Zombies surround me / I'm out of place, I feel so weak, people staring at me.""The zombies were the humans in LA," she explains. "And I love LA. Do not get me wrong. I've been there since, and I've enjoyed myself thoroughly — but I was a little bit depressed last year, around the time when I went to make 'Supalonely' and stuff.""I just felt very alone, and just really wanted to leave basically and go home to New Zealand. And it was really hot there," she continues, nodding to the lyrics, "Something here doesn't feel right / My skin burns, I start to cry.""I think it was more that maybe, I felt like a zombie there," she adds, apparently lost in thought. "I think it was just that thing of: you're walking around a place, you don't know anyone, you're not comfortable, and you also are not mentally stable."<div type="image" title="BENEE press image" height="2700" width="1826" msid="79208961" hostid="261"></div>The album ends with "C U," a dreamy, acoustic guitar-driven farewell. And its outro, the final lyrics you hear, are deeply appropriate: "I'll see you / I'll catch you 'round.""It's kind of like, wrapping it up and saying, 'Thanks for listening,'" BENEE says."It's also that thing of not being able to see anyone at the moment. I can't go out to the rest of the world and see any of my fans. So it's kind of a nice goodbye, for now."

BENEE isn't fazed by the viral success of 'Supalonely.' Maybe that's why her debut album is so good.

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