![]() The rock-leaning 100 gecs is readying its first major-label album for Atlantic Records, while Midwxst is on the star-studded bill for this month’s Day N Vegas festival alongside rappers Kendrick Lamar and Travis Scott. Glaive isn’t the only hyperpop act inching toward the mainstream, nor is he alone in saying that a genre that emerged from a group of digitally connected pals has broadened to the point of meaninglessness. He didn’t necessarily need to come to the music industry’s capital, he clarifies: “I just brought the same laptop and the same mouse to the studio.” Still, waking up every morning in a nice Airbnb with a view of the Hollywood sign - “I mean, it was definitely a good time,” he says. But he traveled to Los Angeles for the first time early this year to assemble its follow-up, “All Dogs Go to Heaven,” with help from producers such as Nick Mira, known for his work with Lil Tecca and the late Juice WRLD, and Blink-182’s Travis Barker. ![]() ![]() Glaive made his debut EP, “Cypress Grove,” at home. So if I do get upset about a relationship thing, I’m never like, ‘F- them.’ It’s always like, ‘Damn, I’m sad.’” ![]() (Glaive stands 6-foot-4 but stoops in a way that makes him look slightly smaller.) “I don’t ever try to be rude or aggressive to anybody. “I have a few songs from the perspective of a male manipulator character, but that’s not how I am, I don’t think,” he says with a nervous laugh. He sang about whatever was on his mind, which as often as not was girls - standard procedure for emo boys across generations, though Glaive’s music eases up a bit on the harshly accusatory tone that defined emo in the ’90s and 2000s. Uninspired by remote learning, though, he began tooling around with recording software he’d find a beat online, then mumble his way to a melodic structure. But it was a lot.”īefore COVID, Glaive was a straight-A student, according to his mom. “I felt like I lost someone I knew, which is kind of corny. Peep’s death at age 21 from an accidental overdose in 2017 left him reeling. “The guitars and trap drums and heavy 808s - I’d never heard anything like that before,” Glaive says. Lil Peep’s moody yet polished emo-rap was a key discovery. At school he was a “serious, reserved, calm-ass, didn’t-talk little kid” at home he played video games, including one featuring the medieval weapon that gave him his stage name, and surfed SoundCloud. “It’s a small Southern town that definitely sleeps at night,” he says. Glaive was born in Florida but moved to Hendersonville, N.C., with his parents - his dad is a former professional polo player whose career was managed by his mom - after his father retired when Glaive was around 10. Prolly my favorite song from this album Comment by h3xrt To scared to open up but i think thats just the man in me Comment by Tarzan Superfly Surprised tiktok aint claim it yet Comment by denizĪnd im an asshole, two faced Comment by IHATEJAYY!% What a peculiar little song, check me out yo Comment by convuqfpl701 Genre Pop Comment by panye if he was cool
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