Caroline Polachek talks with Rolling Stone’s Ilana Woldenberg at the 2024 GRAMMYs.
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00:00 We are here with Caroline Polacek. Hello, stunning, gorgeous. Tell me about the Volcano.
00:06 Thank you.
00:07 The situation.
00:08 I'm wearing this gown by Olivier Feskin's, Fall/Winter 1998, his first collection.
00:13 A collection that has entered the kind of pantheon of like perfect fashion in my mind.
00:19 I can't believe I get to wear this dress here to the Grammys tonight.
00:23 But it's made of vintage mohair and it was hand embroidered by Olivier himself back in 1998.
00:29 Wow, that is stunning, sustainable. We love. Thank you.
00:34 Historical.
00:35 Historical everything. So I want to talk about your nomination because your incredible, groundbreaking album, at least to me,
00:43 is nominated in the category for Best Engineered, which I think is really interesting because you are an artist who's involved in every part of the process, it seems.
00:51 So talk a little bit about that and what it's like being in that specific category.
00:55 Absolutely. So this is my second Grammy nomination. The first one was actually as a producer and writer.
00:59 So I kind of love that this is completing the trifecta of the behind the scenes roles.
01:04 But it's actually a very meaningful one for me because I did put so much love and so much time into the engineering and the editing behind this whole album.
01:13 And the devil really is in the details when it comes to music.
01:16 So huge shout out to my other engineering collabs on this album as well. It was. Yeah, it feels good to be here tonight.
01:23 So I love that you mentioned the devil's in the details, because something that I think is just so brilliant about your work is the way that you manipulate your voice
01:32 and are constantly pushing the frontier of what pop music can sound like.
01:37 So I'm wondering how you keep it fresh and how you kind of I think exploring comes with a little bit of like finding things and being like, oh, maybe that didn't work and kind of just ridding yourself of any shame and just kind of going for it and seeing what tracks.
01:51 Well, you know, the funny thing about releasing music is it takes so long between the moment where you start working on it and when it comes out that you have to trust your taste.
02:00 You have to trust that your desires for what you want to hear are the same as at least someone out there.
02:06 So that's all it is for me is really trusting my own taste.
02:09 Speaking of taste, how do you pull references? What kind of music do you listen to? How do you find new music? I know. I know.
02:16 I mean, we live in such a wild time for music discovery because obviously there's friends.
02:22 There's the K-hole of YouTube, but then there's all these algorithmic things.
02:26 I'm on a flow right now where I'm really all about spamming my friends with music, just sending links unsolicited because I'm finding that I get them back.
02:33 So for anyone watching, that's what's up in 2024. Spam your friends with music.
02:38 And let's keep our recommendations alive between friends.
02:43 I'm going to spam. Guys, you can count on that. I'm going to spam you.
02:46 Spamming it upon us.
02:47 So I want to hear about what's next for you because I noticed Dang is actually not on this album and it just feels like there's something coming.
02:55 It feels like you've been cooking. And I, by the way, I just fucking love that song.
03:00 Thank you.
03:01 Dang, it's so good.
03:02 Thank you so much.
03:04 So Dang, may or may not be a part of a Valentine's gift coming this February.
03:14 We love you. Thank you.
03:16 It's a romantic month, isn't it?
03:17 Can you be my Valentine?
03:20 Thank you so much for stopping by. Good luck. Break a leg. You're amazing.
03:25 Thank you so much.
03:26 (whooshing)