An Interlude with Musician Dev Hynes

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Today, we sit with musician Dev Hynes (Blood Orange)! We start by discussing his new EP (3:15), performing at Madison Square Garden with Harry Styles this fall (4:40), and the process that guides much of his music (6:39). Then, Dev describes growing up in Essex, England (7:04), falling in love with music at his sister’s piano lessons (11:00), his dreams of entering the New York punk culture of Please Kill Me (20:30), early performances with the band Test Icicles (22:08), and how he’s been inspired by the late Octavia Saint Laurent (30:10).

In the back half, we unpack Dev’s gift for collaboration (34:22), the 2013 night that changed everything (38:50), a surreal, full-circle performance of Delancey at the Apollo Theater (46:17), music’s unique ability to express emotions (49:50), and where he hopes to go in his art next (54:20).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam Forgo, so welcome the show. Today I am joined by musician Dev Hines. You may know him as Blood Orange. He's made four records under that moniker along with two EPs,
0:51.0	including a recent project titled Four Songs. Over the fall, Dev opened for Harry
0:57.2	Styles during a month-long residency at Madison Square Garden. When Dev is not making records, he's creating scores for films and TV shows.
1:07.1	Just in the past couple years, he served as the composer on movies like Passing and Master Gardner and TV programs like Rap shit and In Treatment.
1:16.8	This is all to say, Dev is a kind of Polymath, moving from R&B to Seoul to electronica with ease.
1:24.0	But when we sat down for this conversation you're about to hear,
1:28.1	Dev was in between projects at a little bit of a crossroads. Usually on the show we talked to people that have just
1:35.0	released something new and are in the throes of their promotional tour. This is something
1:40.2	different. Instead we discuss his upbringing in Essex, leaving the UK for the
1:45.4	US in his early 20s, how he navigates making all kinds of music for all kinds of
1:51.6	mediums, and so much more. I really hope you enjoy this very special
1:57.4	conversation with the tremendously talented Dev Heinz.
2:15.0	Hello.
2:16.0	Welcome.
2:17.0	Thanks for having me.
2:18.0	How you feeling?
2:19.0	Well, I simultaneously feel over-caffeinated and not caffeinated enough.
2:24.3	What can we do to fix that?
2:26.2	Give you water?
2:27.1	Yes, that's what I was just about to say.
2:28.8	I need to just drink water and like that's it.
2:31.8	And being here, how does that feel? I feel incredible. I'm such a fan.
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