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Mei Semones introduces us to her taste in exclusive playlist to accompany The Cover
The ‘my cup of tea’ playlist mixes tracks by jazz greats and titans of ‘90s rock The post Mei Semones introduces us to her taste in exclusive playlist to accompany The Cover appeared first on NME.
NME’s latest star of The Cover, Mei Semones, has compiled an exclusive playlist to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below.
The Brooklyn-based musician, who mixes indie-pop and jazz, is on this week’s (March 24) edition of The Cover, a weekly manifestation of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read the profile of Mei Semones here, written by Lisa Wright and featuring photography by Marisa Bazan.
To accompany The Cover, Mei Semones has put together a playlist that gives us an introduction to her music taste. The ‘my cup of tea ~♪♡’ playlist brings together the likes of Bud Powell and John Coltrane, with rock legends like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins. Listen to the full playlist on Spotify below and on Apple Music.
In The Cover, Semones discusses the similarities between those two genres, noting they have more in common than most people might assume. “I feel like people think jazz is easy listening or smooth – and there is that type of jazz – but the type I listen to is not necessarily like that,” she explains. “In both types of music, there’s that intensity.”
Elsewhere, the 24-year-old also chats about having a famous fan in Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, her desire to be one of music’s true originals and singing in both English and Japanese in her music. Although she was raised in Michigan, her mother is Japanese, and Semones spent her summers growing up visiting her grandmother in Yokosuka. “It’s whatever feels natural and is able to convey what I’m trying to say the best,” she says of weaving together the two languages. “Either way, I try to keep my lyrics as straightforward as possible in whichever language I’m in. I don’t write with too many metaphors; I just try to say it how it is.”
Find out more about Mei Semones in the full Cover story here and see who else has been on The Cover here.
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