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TThe 2020 BRIT Awards nominations were, as you would expect, dominated by guys in almost every category. This is why the appearance of Ashnikko on the red carpet, his striking blue hair worn by two male submarines, caused such agitation. "Tonight I'm playing Ashnikko: Femdom," she told NME. "It's a game of power ... Down with patriarchy." It is not the first time that Ashnikko (real name Ashton Casey) has been rowdy just to be herself. Following the release of his EP ‘Hi, It’s Me’ at the end of last year, his abrasive pop-rap single, ‘Stupid’, went viral on TikTok, getting noticed Saturday Night Live and a Miley Cyrus dance routine in the process. Since then, she has announced a tour with American rap sensation Doja Cat, her song "Working Bitch" had a similar moment online, Bring Me leader The Horizon Oli Sykes called it "The coolest person in the world", She spent her forties doing yoga with Charli XCX on her Instagram and appeared on Yungblud's online show last week. Phew. We met Ash in Los Angeles to find out when she escaped, her songs inspired by Harley Quinn and why she doesn't plan on taking herself anytime soon. Your music takes on its full influence. Sometimes it seems like Brockhampton meets Riot Grrl, other times it's a Charli XCX party with a Nu-metal growl. What do you call it “I wrote it the other day, it's angry, punk, hip-hop, sad-feminist, bubblegum, poo-poo. It’s a lot. I find it really difficult to stick to one thing because I am so fickle and I really like to change my mind. " You've been out music since you were 18, do you feel like you've finally found your sound with "Hi, it's me"? "100%. There’s a lot of really bad music I’ve done but you have to do crappy music to do what you’re supposed to do. I have the impression that this project is entirely me, fully my voice and fully what I want to say and sound. I'm really proud of it. " There is a proud feminine energy in your music, has it always been so? "No, that's not the case. I became a woman and I formed my own opinions about the world around me. I feel like a teenager who makes music, I had a lot of "internalized misogyny, a need to be one of the boys and a lot of self-hatred. By discovering what feminism is and what it meant to me, it definitely took my life in hand." [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o_IQavlMDA[/embed] What was the turning point? “I was really a kid from Tumblr. I did a lot of my personal education on what intersectional feminism is on Tumblr. The Internet is a great tool for children who are raised in very small cities. You can access all this information and make your own opinion. " So what inspired "Hi, it's me"? "It's a break EP. I still have a lot of break songs that are being recorded for later because I was writing them." Hi, it's me ", I'm the one who draws really in my own femininity and my own feeling of confidence that I feel like I only felt that last year when I wrote it. It was a very tumultuous and crazy journey. I was so upset and moved , everything just overflowed. I used a crazy energy when I was writing this project, I felt like a supernatural goddess, then it came out and I felt human again. This EP was a speech of encouragement for me. It was written to get me out of a bad place. " To what extent has "Stupid" going viral on Tiktok had an impact? “It gave him an astronomical boost. I like the way ‘Stupid’ is doing well, it’s not just this song that benefited. "Working Bitch" had a moment recently and it was really exciting. People discovered the rest of PE with ‘Stupid’, which is cool. I'm glad everything went like this. Even Miley got involved, how was it? "It was great. To me it felt like a cool little moment on TikTok and when Miley did a dance it looked like A Thing. I'm glad my ass song angry about my ex-boyfriend has become the reading list for so many people. " And has it changed your life? "100%, it's been quite the lifestyle change. I'm still getting used to it. It's sometimes a little uncomfortable, my relationship with social media has completely changed and I'm still working. Being more visible by as long as a human being is a strange state of life. But sometimes it's the best. It's something I've wanted for so long and now it happens, it's something I'm still struggling with. J just try to match my expectations with reality now. " [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbQrhOWkonk[/embed] Do you feel compelled to prove yourself now? "This way of thinking will only intensify my mental illness, so I'm not trying to think like that. For the first time, I have no trouble following. I have a lot of music to broadcast, I am very confident in my ability to create art and do the job. I'm just excited to put everything aside and not put myself under pressure because it's crazy. " You just released "Tantrum". Where does this song come from? "I had the Birds of prey soundtrack in mind, I wanted to run for this movie and I wanted to write a bad bitch, the song by Harley Quinn, so I wrote ‘Tantrum’. But it became 100% my song. I love this song and I love that it is my song. I write music for myself first and then for my beautiful fans. I have to do it myself first, otherwise it doesn't sound like my music. When you enter a session and say, “Okay, let's do a TikTok smash,” the song will sound like a balloon. " Is it a standalone single? Is there an EP en route? An album? "I don't know if I have the right to say but yes, my longtime collaborator Slinger and I are doing a project. No matter how it is called or finished, I continue to accept it, but I will just give birth to baby songs and see who loves them. " CREDIT: Lucrecia Taormina Who are your peers? "The people I really respect are Doja Cat, Grimes, Tierra Whack, Rico Nasty, Hayley Williams, Princess Nokia, Kim Petras and Charli XCX. Other women make me feel very inspired, but my really unconfident 14 year old self also inspires me to make confident music now, as a 24 year old woman. " Oli Sykes said you were the coolest person in the world. Are you? "He said it, didn't he. Sometimes when I dance with Cher in the mirror, I think 100% that I'm the coolest person in the world. But my brain is a real crazy race. Trust is a real roller coaster, right? I think I am sometimes and sometimes not at all. " Do you take yourself seriously? "You know what, I'm just kidding because of a trauma. It's very serious but also, I don't take myself too seriously because I like jokes on the fart, you know. For a while, I thought I must be this really serious artist, this enigma, but you know what, I like making stupid TikToks. I like to make these stupid sketches on my Youtube channel. I wrote a musical on my clitoris and I wore a vagina costume. I am not trying to be a really serious artist but I am not trying to be a parody or a comic act. But I can't take myself too seriously or I will cringe so hard. " Ashnikko's new single ‘Tantrum is now available !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments); if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)(window, document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '2300206660218433'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); https://oltnews.com/ashnikko-is-miley-cyrus-approved-bubblepunk-pop-star-who-refuses-to-take-herself-seriously-nme-live?_unique_id=5ea0237ef27e2

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