Interview with Ravenna Golden.
Written and Interviewed by: Sarah Evangelista
Being a staple in the electronic/hyper-pop scene since her music career start in 2015, Ravenna Golden is back with her new EP. Ms. Genius features 8 songs, and let’s listeners know she’s here for the long haul. We got to ask her a few questions about her music.
Your song lyrics are super blunt - the very first lyric of "Big Knife" is 'I've always had bad luck when it comes to true love'. Do you write music from your life stories, or do you storytell?
my songs are about my own experiences thru a romanticized/dramatized lens. like “based on a true story” vibes but not ultimately the reality of my situations from a more objective standpoint. it’s usually not as deep as i make it sound in a song.
You've been making hyperpop/electronic music for years now. Did you always have a love for this genre, or did it fall in your lap one day?
i don’t think either of those is the case . the term, hyperpop, is so new and so in line with when i started making music that i find the songs of that mid-late 2010s sound kind of informed each other and snowballed into the sound/genre you’re referring to. when i got into music “hyperpop” wasn’t in anyones vocabulary. wasn’t a thing. i’ve certainly seen some artists where that hyperpop sound just fell into their lap but i’ve been varispeeding (pitching up) tracks and shit for years. and i didn’t always love it either. i became it i guess.
Who are your favourite artists at the moment?
that’s such a hard question for me, because i listen to songs mostly like a song at a time by a variety of artists. but by volume of artist i listen to a lot of old eminem, old kanye, and weezer/green day/blink, and then the linkin park jay z collision course album. so iconic.