Had Parks still been leading the regular life of a 20-year-old right now, she might have spent last year at university (or given the pandemic circs, not at university) studying English Literature: “That was what I was going to do until only a few months before you have to confirm your place.” But by then her ascent was well underway, and she was booked up for a “pretty live-heavy” year, including a headline tour, 36 festival bookings and a supporting tour in the United States.īut of course, 2020: no dice. “But I think it is reductive in the sense that I’m not really speaking for anyone or making sweeping assumptions or assertions about everyone who’s 20.” “I understand why it’s been applied in terms of my age, and the fact that I’m speaking about what it’s like personally to be a teenager,” she says, patiently. Her honest, empathetic lyrics about love and friendship and mental health have also earned her praise, as well as a fair few “voice of Generation Z” tags (sample lyric: “I hold your head back when you’re too lean / I hold the Taco Bell and you cried over Eugene”). There was that sense of depth and darkness.” “Those were the influences I had when I was finding my feet as an artist,” she says now, “but I loved those kinds of crunchy textures, and how playful they were with their words. “Nobody in my family does anything creative, though my dad loved jazz and my mum likes Prince and 1980s French pop.” As for her own music - warm, delicate vocals and a mellow, trip-hop mood - her website states, somewhat resolutely, that her songs are “mainly inspired by Portishead and Earl Sweatshirt”. “I would say I’m an outlier,” says Parks about her chosen career path.
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