The brain behind tracks on Beyonce’s surprise 2013 album delivers one of the year’s wildest debuts.
If its jumping genres, thats just how I take in music.
The genre-hopping also applies to his own output.
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The Beatles were the pioneers of that, I think, he says.
They were the first ones to really start blending sounds and doing things like that.
And now its commonplace to put strings on everything.
OnAQUARIA, the claustrophobic, industrial-influenced sounds that permeated Beyonce cuts like Haunted and Jealous remain intact.
There was just a cohesion that kind of happened there.
His preference for quality over glitzy prestige extends to his personal life, about which hes guarded.
I would rather people just stay out of my business, he says.
I dont really get caught up in the whole world of celebrity.
Instead, he peppers in stories of behind-the-scenes moments with Beyonce away from the paparazzis lights.
(Beyonces reaction to Robert Plants vocals?
Oh my god, I didnt know he could sing like that!)
She has an eye and an understanding for art, Boots explains.
because she hadnt been fully clear on, you know, what itreallymeant to be a feminist.
