Nostalgia – particularly of the early 2000s pop selection – is in for Bengaluru artist Tanya Shanker’s new EP Cyberfantasy, which is led by the earworm title monitor.
Shanker groups up with co-composer, producer and mentor Richard Andrew Dudley for the five-track EP that brings again the braggadocio of pop artists like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, full with vocal melodies and manufacturing thrives.
It’d recall a unique period of pop, however Shanker – born in 2005 – believes there are some similarities between again then and proper now. “I believe with plenty of the themes coping with being chronically on-line or being a citizen of the web, Richard and I assumed that drawing from the period when the World Huge Internet had simply emerged can be essentially the most excellent approach of going about making the EP,” she says.
Cyberfantasy follows Shanker’s 2023 EP What Lies Beneath in addition to her 2020 rock-rooted debut album Battlefield. Within the span of about 5 years, Shanker has traversed a number of genres, from pop to R&B to rock. With the discharge of Cyberfantasy and leaning into Britney Spears and Beyoncé, we needed to ask whether or not Shanker ever wished she was born in one other decade. She says with amusing, “If there was an period that I might have been born in, I’d say in all probability the Sixties or Seventies, as a result of rock music was simply beginning to achieve recognition at the moment and it will have been wonderful to see the rise of legendary artists just like the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd and extra. I all the time inform Richard that if I used to be born throughout that point, I’d have actually been a typical ‘rockstar.’”
Whereas that fantasy is totally different, the music video for “Cyberfantasy” takes us to Shanker in a neon sign-lit room with a wall-mount phone unit, singing about an web relationship and its challenges. Shanker says she together with Dudley and cinematographer and editor Armaan Mishra shot the whole visible inside three hours, making it considered one of her quickest shoots.
Elsewhere on the EP, there’s extra experimentation, with lure beats skittering on the loud and brash “Takeover,” synthwave on “Dopamine,” electronic-pop on “Mirage” and one thing straight out of High 40 pop-rock on “Love Me Then.” Whereas feedback and suggestions has been flowing in, Shanker is especially proud about her good friend Nandita sending “essentially the most detailed evaluation” of Cyberfantasy EP, with ideas on lyrics, manufacturing and ideas. “I used to be so touched that she took the hassle to take a seat down and write such a protracted message about why she loved so I believe that was one of the best praise I received,” Shanker provides.
The EP marks one more sonic exploration for Shanker, who says she’ll proceed to discover “new genres and types until I discover what works.” She provides, “I believe that’s the solely approach to really evolve and develop as an artist.” Up subsequent, she’s engaged on touring along with her solo venture, Tanya Shanker Collective. “I’m additionally engaged on collaborations with quite a few different artists this yr which I’ll be specializing in in addition to persevering with to jot down and uncover extra music,” she says.
