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<\/a><\/p>\nHailing from Hamilton, a busy industrial town situated on the south-western corner of Lake Ontario, Jessy Lanza is the singer, songwriter and producer crafting sultry, synthpop that\u2019s rich with emotion and fraught with longing. Her debut album Pull My Hair Back, <\/i>co-produced by Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys, is sensual, inviting and dark blending elements of R&B, house, disco and 80s studio rock. Ahead of her performance at this year\u2019s Club To Club, we sat down with the woman herself to talk love and loneliness, what it\u2019s like gigging in a former strip club and how to fend off Facebook creeps looking for a quick hair tug.<\/p>\n
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Where do you draw inspiration for your music?<\/b><\/p>\n
I\u2019ve never really been into lyrics that are overthought or overly laboured. Some people are good at taking a concept or something quite abstract and spinning a story out of it, but I\u2019m not one of those people. I find it quite hard to write lyrics so I suppose I default to themes of love and sex \u2013 ha or the loneliness that comes with not having either.<\/p>\n
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So does a lot of it come from personal experience then?<\/b><\/p>\n
Yea, absolutely. Loneliness and rejection are really important themes for me. It\u2019s not just love, it\u2019s much broader than that, those feelings can come from anything \u2013 love, life, your career. The fact that the album is called Pull My Hair Back<\/i>,people have come to some pretty obvious conclusions about that. I\u2019ll get messages from guys on Facebook, just one liners, saying they\u2019d be happy to pull my hair back. Uh, ok \u2026<\/p>\n
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What about people that you\u2019ve met? Dancing Jed from Kathy Lee for example. What\u2019s his story?<\/b><\/p>\n
Some of the songs are inspired by people that I\u2019ve met in Hamilton. My studio is above a bar so I find myself regularly hanging out there. They might have said something, just a single line maybe, which inspires me. Jed just dances around the town constantly, you see him everywhere. I didn\u2019t know anything about him so I sent him a message, explained about the project and I remember he said, \u201cin my life I just want to make people happy, so if this makes you happy \u2026\u201d. Ha, he didn\u2019t actually like the music all that much but he wanted to help. He was listening to this weird Serbian folk music whilst he was dancing \u2013 an a cappella all male choir I think.<\/p>\n