All Apologies: EMA
With her incredible new album Exile In The Outer Ring released yesterday, Erika M Anderson - aka EMA - takes time out to answer the Best Fit Q&A.
1
What's your present state of mind and being?
"Sweat and ache, electric brain, focus and unfocus, vacillation between depression and talking myself up."
2
What's the most overrated virtue?
"I had to Google virtues. They all seem like pretty good ideas, although temperance is definitely the one I have the hardest time with."
3
What one thing have you learnt from your parents?
"That all you need to have a good time is music on the stereo. Beer helps."
4
What the most desirable quality you look for in romantic partner?
"I go for smart and principled. I am unreasonably attracted to skinny 'nerds' with glasses and thick bass players."
5
What and where was the greatest meal you ever ate?
"I like to cook actually. I love going out for delicious food but sometimes restaurants can give me anxiety."
6
What's your most treasured possession?
"This is a good question that I don’t have an answer for. I don’t care all that much about things, and I’m bad at taking care of them…but if I say 'my laptop' or whatever I sound like a huge asshole."
7
What was the last dream you had about?
"We foster kittens so I have dreams about little kittens sometimes. It’s usually not like 'oh they’re so cute', it’s normally about taking care of them somehow. And they mutate into other things as well."
8
What's the biggest lie on your Wikipedia page?
"That my first 'album' was 'little sketches on tape', I think that was more of an experimental noise release than an album. But the line I HATE the most is this:
'She has been maybe heavily blogged about[7] and was described by Yahoo! News as one of the most blogged artist of the week. This was calculated using an aggregator of 1000 music blogs.[8]'
Ewww it’s so gross. Who wants to be known as 'one of the most heavily blogged about artists of the week'? It feels so fleeting and short-sighted.
9
If you could say something to your 15-year-old self, what would it be?
"Dude, you did it."
10
And finally, who would you most like to apologise to and why?
"Probably my future self, cuz while i’ve been living my 15 y/o-self dream, I’ve fucked future us on that money and job security front."
Exile In The Outer Ring is out now on City Slang. EMA tours the UK in October.
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