“That’s the place all these songs come from, this fascination and full engagement with the world around me. So it was important to hold the space of…‘This is an inspiring kind of life and the way I feel most alive and that’s what matters.’
“It can be easy to say I’m working so hard to make a difference and I don’t know if it’s going to matter at all.
It is hard for people working in these fields I’m venturing into,” says Teng, who will begin a full-time job in sustainability in Detroit, where she now lives, come January. “I wrote this music partly because I had reconnected with the joyfulness of creating music but there was also a certain kind of song I needed in my life. It’s her attempt to make sense of issues - from Body Identity Integrity Disorder to capitalist excess - that are sometimes grim and often politically charged. Still, for all its swooning, expansive pop, including several tracks that seem primed for the dance floor, Teng refers to her latest project as “a nerdy album.” She also started to develop an appreciation for hip-hop, starting with Eminem and gravitating toward artists like Kanye West, Jay-Z and Mos Def. I was hooked on Foster the People and Vampire Weekend,” says Teng. “In grad school, I was living with a roommate who was obsessed with Katy Perry and Adele and Muse. But there was also the influence of the pop and indie music that’s caught her ears in recent years.
She credits Cooley’s enthusiasm in the studio with helping her bring a bold buoyancy to the songs.
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