Paris Jackson plugs in and turns up for second LP offering, HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE, marking a departure from her debut from 2020. The singer joined Miles The DJ in Los Angeles recently to discuss her new project, influences, and finding community.
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Jackson describes the record as an embrace of her "inner angsty teen," moving away from the sound of her album, wilted, towards a more grunge-influenced, guitar-driven cornerstone for her follow-up LP.
"I think there's this, you know, inner angsty teen that never really went away,” Paris reveals. “I made this record for her and I wanted to make something that she thought would be cool."
She credits collaborators like Linda Perry and Simon Oscroft for helping her find that raw authenticity. “I think she's a phenomenal songwriter, and she's really got a gift for melody,” Jackson says of working with Perry. “She would definitely say things like, ‘be specific,’ because a lot of the songwriters I look up to can be very vague, and that's something that I still often do, but it's something that she was kind of trying to encourage me to to stray away from it and be more specific about what my experience is.”
For Paris, years of hindsight and sobriety provided clarity for tracks like "zombies in love" and "stitched on and on." While years of influence from artists like Marcy Playground, Nirvana, and The Smashing Pumpkins, helped color the sound of her sophomore effort.
“I have a completely different mentality putting this record out than I did with the last one,” she admits. “There's kind of like this detachment and not in like a separation or removal, but just a holding on loosely kind of an energy and I'm very much I've already started writing the next album.”
For more from Paris Jackson, check out the full interview above.
“There's this inner angsty teen that never really went away”
“There's this inner angsty teen that never really went away”
