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I'm fascinated by evil queens. They're very alluring and repellent at the same time, and I'm into that dichotomy.

Dichotomy, Evil, Repellent, Same
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I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

Absorb, Music, Order, People, Thinking, Uzbekistani

There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to compose real Arabic scale melodies, I would need an Arabic keyboard, and I don't have one. So I had to compose Arabesque melodies.

Arabic, Big, Melody, Quarter, Real, Western

If you've ever seen album covers for Arab female pop stars, it looks like the designer was paid five dollars to make them, and the extreme femaleness is astounding.

Covers, Designer, Extreme, Female, Make, Pop

I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones.

Age, Exploring, Gender, Problem, Teenager, Undefined

This has always been my problem with genres is that they've turned into marketing tools. I've never been a person that allows themselves to be in any kind of box and I think that genres can be used as tools to define BPM or something but I think they're suffocating of music and other art. And I think they're inaccurate when they come to describing my work. Maybe other people like defining it, but I don't.

Art, Define, Kind, People, Thinking, Work
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