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INJI: I'm INJI, an electronic dance pop musician from Turkey. I'm 22 years old and live in the United States
FUSION: What happened and how did you get started?
and I kept giving her songs that were passionate and beautiful, and she would just be like, "Can you make me dance around, can you make me jump and down?”
"I walked in the club every- thing changed when I walked in the club" After that, every- one asked why I changed it, and I responded, "I don't know, I didn't want to lie."
I was like OK mom, I'll make you an electronic dance song and the lyrics the inspiration was was pretty heartbro- "I walked in the club everything changed when I walked in ken and there was a boy that I the club" After that, everyone asked why I changed it, and wanted to do really bad things I responded, "I don't know, I didn't want to lie." The oth- to and I just wanted to let that er comment I received all the time was, "Thank you, this is anger out and I know so many exactly what I wanted to say to this person who broke my girls my age have that experi- heart." I had a lot of people connecting with me and say- ence so I was like what would ing this really makes me feel empowered and confident I do in an ideal world to this boy and like I can take this power back from someone who was who was mean to me and I was mean to me and that really made me feel so happy be- like I'd be mean back to him so cause at the end of the day, that's why I made the song so I said gaslight gatekeep call his I could express myself and feel better so I'm so happy that new ***** mainstream all that everyone who listened to it could feel a little bit better too.
INJI: It's a hilarious story how I got started in the profession. I was at school studying finance, and myself and a few friends wanted to produce some mu- sic, and we decided to do this extremely humorous song that just put my heart out there since I didn't expect anyone to listen to it. I had never done music before I placed a short video on Tik Tok and the song simply goes and since then I am a musician lovely to chat to so let's go more expanding on the song gaslight
FUSION: Let's speak about gaslight a little more. I know you said was a joke, but tell me more about how she got started with gaslight. What in- spired the creation of Gaslight?
FUSION: What was the recep- FUSION: Talk about how did "THE ONE" came to be? tion like once this song went viral and was all over the internet? INJI: The song's lyrics are simple: "I've got two or three lov- ers, four or five fellas on my mind, seven blowing up my INJI: Yeah I received a lot of mes- line, eight or nine telling me I'm fine, but I just need the sages, mostly DMS, at first. It one, nine telling me I've got to go find the one," imply- was messages like, "Why didn't ing that the problem isn't an absence of potential part- you keep the British accent be-ners but rather that no one is quite right. I think this song cause the viral video I was sing- is all about no one can really ever meet that perfect person ing the song in a British accent as I said because it was a joke FUSION: What was the insperation for that song? and the song when something like this;
INJI: Yeah, so there are two sides to this response. The inspira- tion for the music comes from my mother, who is a very ener- getic woman who likes to dance,