“It was sort of meeting the medium of putting hip-hop with a pop, ‘60s sound and embracing that.

And I kind of mix that with the ‘90s R&B thing: 702, Xscape, Deborah Cox, Aaliyah,” Finister says. “I grew up listening to classic rock like the Doors, Led Zeppelin, and Janis Joplin is one of favorite singers. Those unlikely pairings are the result of her across-the-board influences. Dre beat (“Xxplosive”) through the Doors’ “Riders on the Storm” and rides Garbage’s “#1 Crush” over 2Pac’s “Hail Mary.” The first single off “Crown Gold” is a smoldering R&B-driven take on the classic Nancy Sinatra (by way of Cher) standard “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down),” which Finister mashed up with Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones Pt. “In the ‘90s, TLC and Aaliyah and all those girls were dressing with the baggy pants and a look, so to me it was important to take R&B and give it a new image in a sense and put all my influences of ‘60s pop culture with that, because it was similar to the ‘90s hip-hop/R&B thing.” Me being in my youth, it was important for me to embrace that,” she says. They were all dressing really mod, but they were a part of pop culture. When I saw the photo of Sedgwick that they took for Vogue in her house and it said youthquaker a whole different world. Her music is driven almost wholly by her look, and she takes cues from the youthquaker movement sparked by ‘60s style icons Edie Sedgwick and Twiggy. Given her towering height and beauty, you could easily confuse her for a model (she did styling for Def Jam Records after dropping out of high school). I want to make a classic R&B, but the R&B that I’m making is going to be more avant garde.”īorn in Oakland and raised in L.A., Finister instantly attracts glimpses with her bone-straight hair, perfectly manicured eyebrows, vintage mod attire and sultry makeup that would make Amy Winehouse proud. What I’m doing, I want to be more innovative for my generation. “People are copying so much these days, it’s hard to separate. I think it can be authentic and classic, but it can have a new spin,” she said while sipping a Thai tea at downtown L.A.’s Demitasse Café. “Urban fan bases need to be revolutionized.

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