The first time I heard KennyHoopla's brilliant "How Will I Rest In Peace If I'm Buried By A Highway" it was that exhilarating sense of discovery you get when a song grabs you by the throat and screams in your face.
The stunning track was no fluke. The Wisconsin via Cleveland followed that up by teaming up with one of his musical heroes, Travis Barker, on "Estella" and now on "Hollywood Sucks," a smart, sardonic song that kind of answers the question what would happen if the sarcasm of Randy Newman's "I Love L.A." and moved it into the Twenty-First century and gave it a punk furor.
The track "Hollywood Sucks" will be followed by a new project, SURVIVORS GUILT: THE MIXTAPE, out next week (June 11). I spoke with KennyHoopla, one of the most promising new artists in years, about working with Barker, his other musical heroes and why his music is about heart as much as it is about any sound.
Steve Baltin: Where are you today?
KennyHoopla: I'm in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. I just got back from L.A. the other day. I was in L.A. working.
Baltin: With Travis?
KennyHoopla: Yep.
Baltin: I love that guy. And one of the things I really love about him is he still gets so excited about music. So seeing someone who has done so much still get so excited, how does that inspire you?
KennyHoopla: Yeah, that's what I see in him too. That's what's so rad to me. He still has so much refreshed passion.
Baltin: Were there early songs that stirred your passion for music?
KennyHoopla: Yeah, I can remember like "Changes," by Tupac, I was obsessed with that. And then Blink-182, "I Miss You," that was big, to "Give You Hell," [All-American Rejects], to "Grew Up A Screw Up," by Ludacris, then to "Sugar We're Goin' Down," by Fall Out Boy." I was sickly obsessed with that, extremely, and just that album. I used to take field trips to the library in elementary school and that was just a CD I picked out at one point. I was just obsessed with that. I used to sit in my room all the time.
Baltin: As an artist you should never lose your sense of fandom. So how surreal is it to grow up listening to Blink and now work with Travis?
KennyHoopla: So much, it doesn't even feel real at all honestly. I can't even believe I'm talking to you right now. It's all crazy. I'm just grateful. That's my first feeling before anything, just a sense of gratitude. And then like, "Oh my god." It is wild, I had that thought at the video shoot. This might sound corny, but probably two times I glimpsed just at him and it blew my mind. It hit me harder, like, "Yo, 'I Miss You,' all of these songs I was obsessed with he was behind. It's super wild."
Baltin: Going back to the inspiration, talk about being around him and his humility and what that shows you as an artist.
KennyHoopla: I like him a lot because I can relate to that. It is humbleness. I think it passes humbleness and just starts being a gratefulness. When you get so blessed, which is what I feel like in a lot of artists I've met. You can walk into a room, or anyone who's been through like true adversity, you can feel it in the air, you can see it in someone's eyes when they've survived and you kind of lose any ego and everything is a blessing. That's how I carry myself and I also feel that with Travis, so it's just a beautiful thing to see, and to be around and to learn. And for someone of his stature to have open arms and just be so cool, I'm pretty sure everyone in the culture is extremely grateful for it.
Baltin: Do you see and hear all these differing styles and influences come together in your music?
KennyHoopla: Yeah, I do. But also no, not exactly the influence, but it's the heart. Like I said there's already an understanding, so all these artists I listened to growing up it was more so the heart and I feel like most of the artists that I like, loved and listened to, they would understand what I'm saying. So it's not a surprise because the heart I'm giving to the music is identical because it's like a universal thing. But I think styles go into that, like vulnerability, of course, just certain emotions. But a lot of this is beyond a science to a point, for me personally.
Baltin: When I first heard "How Will I Rest In Peace If I'm Buried By A Highway" it felt like the soundtrack to a movie to me. Do you hear cinematic influences in your music?
KennyHoopla: Yeah, definitely. There's this movie called Great Expectations, that's a really big one for me. Then probably Where The Wild Things Are.
Baltin: Are there artists that are role models for you in the way they've evolved?
KennyHoopla: Definitely, Passion Pit to Now, Now. I even feel like Post Malone is a good one. But Passion Pit I really feel like he's so underrated and he's just been in his own world. Or Tame Impala, I feel like all of those are very real things that are not that approachable. Or they're more personal, I guess. There are just all these things that are so personal, but have been able to get to a universal scale. And I've always loved that.
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