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What she discovered, with close friends and heartbroken strangers, was a sort of hyperreality. Every facet of life – joy, despair and everything in between \u2013 co-existed under the strobe lights. <\/p>\n

“Everyone’s guard is down, and everyone’s equally vulnerable. There’s all these little snippets of conversation and fleeting, really intense, connections.”<\/p>\n

Those vignettes became source material for her new music. A poet before she was a songwriter, Parks has a knack for dropping you into stories that feel instantly familiar.<\/p>\n

On the captivating, glitchy club track Heaven, external<\/a>, she transports us to a gig by Kelly Lee Owens, under the 6th Street Viaduct bridge in Los Angeles, where “bodies in the summer breeze” are surrounded by concrete and the smell of gasoline.<\/p>\n

In the confusion and the noise, she’s trying to locate her friend.<\/p>\n

“And she was like, ‘Look down. I’m wearing the pink Adidas’,” recalls Parks. That tiny detail slips into the lyrics, bringing the song to life.<\/p>\n

Get Go, external<\/a> is a homage to London, with snatches of pirate radio and a crisp two-step beat, articulating a story about the therapeutic feeling of dancing with strangers.<\/p>\n

It was inspired by “a friend of mine who’d just broken up with her boyfriend,” she explains. <\/p>\n

“I was like, ‘Let’s just go dancing. Let’s be flooded with loud music, and you can cry, and we can just release this.'”<\/p>\n

Blue Disco shifts focus to an afterparty at Park’s house, where someone’s cousin has thrown up and “everything smells of chips and gin”.<\/p>\n

“I’m always the host because I love to cook and I love to DJ,” she says. “Sometimes I’ll put my decks on my living room table and just do a little set for my friends.”<\/p>\n

Learning to cook, it transpires, was the second strand of her plan to reclaim some normality after the whirlwind of her early 20s.<\/p>\n

“I was like, ‘I want to get good at this’, because when you’re coming down, you need to eat,” she laughs.<\/p>\n

“I do a really nice roast chicken. I love doing a spread of tacos and salads\u2026 but the best hangover cure’s a proper English breakfast. That’ll get me right in the morning.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What she discovered, with close friends and heartbroken strangers, was a sort of hyperreality. Every facet of life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-509945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}