My debut album, ‘Forget the World,’ is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think.
AFROJACKPeople need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It’s because you feel it; you see it in someone’s body language.
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I’m just a guy, doing okay. But I’m a happy guy doing okay.
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Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.
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Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.
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I was in school – I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done.
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I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you’re feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.
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I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn’t respond.
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I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it’s important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together.
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If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other.
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I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn’t so much ‘pressure’ for me; it’s a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.
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When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there.
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One of the reasons why my album is called ‘Forget the World’ is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.
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We didn’t have money for a babysitter, so she always brought me with her to the dancing school. Back then, I was already watching and listening to Michael Jackson for a long time.
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When you’re walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you’re, like , ‘Oh, that’s my song.’ You want to say, ‘Hey Mom!’ That never changes.
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I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know?
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Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.
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