One of the challenging things for me in terms of my “brand,” or what I put out in the world on social media, is that because I don’t perform pain in a particular way online, I think there’s an assumption that I’m just thriving all the time and running around town getting blowouts. As someone with a large social media following yourself, what does that feel like, to have other people making assumptions about who you are based on your online presence, and how did this influence how you wrote the book? When Rukmini meets Neela for the first time, she says, “I know everything about you.” Many of us have experienced obsessions with people who have star power where we feel like we know them intimately. So for me, the idea of a book soundtrack felt really exciting and something I’ve never done before. As the music industry has changed, I think musicians have to be creative about how we think about disseminating and releasing music. I’m constantly thinking about new ways to create music outside of the album format. In fiction, the ideas that I put forward can come through fictional characters as opposed to me and my voice, which felt necessary.īecause the novel is so music-centric, it felt like it made sense to have a musical component. And so in thinking about how to have some of the nuanced conversations that happen in the book, fiction became a useful place to do that. I think that one of the things I’ve taken from social media over the past few years is that it feels increasingly impossible to have nuanced conversations online.
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