I want to write a record you can put on at a dinner party… I love Tame Impala for that reason. “A lot my music lately has been really sharp, because that’s what’s been exciting me, but it’s also been hard to listen to. “I usually take three years but I want to take three months.”Īs for what it might sound like, Flume says that after “getting the hang of” progressive and experimental bangers, he’s been interested by the prospect of making music that’s softer, as his girlfriend described it., He’s not been slack, having recently released Toro y Moi collab ‘The Difference’, but reveals he’s currently experimenting with putting together an album in a short amount of time. “Even to this day the older I get and the more I do this, the more fun I have on stage.” “I’m writing music back when I started”įlume says being in lockdown has been a “blessing in disguise”, allowing him to focus on writing new music. “The second I get to a festival I’m riddled with anxiety,” he says. He still gets social anxiety but it’s manageable now. He wasn’t happy.”įlume no longer drinks before shows, tours in shorter bursts, and started taking anti-depressants and meditating to help. And he died because he was medicating himself just like I was, with alcohol, drugs, whatever.

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I’m not having fun doing this, I think I want to quit.” I went to a therapist and was like ‘I hate my job’… feel like a bad person for saying that, but it’s true. “I got to a point where I was like ‘I don’t want to do this anymore. He “pushed through” his anxiety and alcohol dependence for nearly five years but reached a crisis point when he felt like quitting music, and sought professional help. “I’m just not a performer and I’ve definitely used alcohol to feel comfortable on stage in front of a bunch of people… It was a pattern and it was getting pretty bad.” “When performing, I would drink to calm nerves – to make it bearable,” he revealed. Despite having his “dream job”, he relied on alcohol to cope with his anxiety of playing live. The girl turned out to be his girlfriend (Paige Elkington), and the act was far from the strangest or dirtiest thing to take place at the festie - Burning Man is an entire 9 days of total freedom and craziness in the desert. Loading “I went to a therapist and said I hate my job.”Ī self-described hermit whose “worst nightmare” is public speaking, Flume says the success and attention was difficult to manage. The video showed Flume diving his face into a girls ass on stage, and people were pretty outraged by it. It was fun and the crowd went f**king wild. Though he was concerned about the reactions, at first, because “some business things fell through” due to how the footage was spun negatively in the tabloids, but admits it “really did my help my career.” Referencing an unprecedented spike in Google searches, he says “it was 10 times amount of attention id ever gotten in the history of the project. The couple discuss the viral moment from their perspective (“It spread like the coronavirus!”) due to Flume’s “squeaky clean image,” calling himself “the Michael Cera of electronic music.” That’s how Flume describes how his career changed after footage of him nuzzling his face into Elkington’s arse on-stage at Burning Man blew up online. It’s definitely worth diving into the whole 35-min episode here on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, if you’ve got the time, or read on for the biggest reveals from the podcast. She took the opportunity to interview Streten for her podcast, My Friend Podcast, and really got the decade-defining producer to go deep and open up.įlume candidly talks about considering quitting music, abusing alcohol to deal with his anxiety around performing, his conservative background, and the impact of the whole ‘Flume eats ass’ Burning Man bit had on his career. home with his girlfriend Paige Elkington. *also, she was a child when she was a child and couldn’t consent and didn’t understand what was being asked of her in terms of a life devotion.Harley Streten, aka Flume, is currently self-isolating in his L.A. But we put a few bricks in the fortress and it would be irresponsible to say differently. We didn’t take away her money or freedom. I can’t imagine the pressure to finance your entire family, the pressure to be sexy but don’t be whore like your ex boyfriend so tastefully /s portrayed you, to find love, keep the plates spinning and by the way the entire planet feels entitled to your personal life. I’m a person who struggles with mild to medium mental health issues and if someone started following me I would be over the deep end pretty quick. If nobody was buying magazines or looking there would not have been 20 or more photographers around her at all times. I don’t think the general public is innocent though.

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