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Jackson Wang sits down with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to discuss his upcoming album, 'MAGICMAN 2.' During the conversation, he talks about how being a solo artist is different from starting in a group, what his parents mean to him, and more.
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Jackson Wang tells Apple Music about how it feels to be a solo artist since starting off in a group
Also for majority of my solo career, obviously I grew with 88rising. It inspired me a lot, but at the same time, I was like a one-man team. I direct all my stuff. I write treatments for all my stuff I wrote. Basically the craziest thing is the preparation for everything, I just need to do everything. And there's pros and cons versus if you're in a system, you have everything taken care of. You just need to show up. You just need to execute and focus on delivering the best you can. But as a solo artist, independent artist, it's so much work. There's so much stuff that I would have to edit. Even my behind the scenes, I would have to post this and just make sure that it's a one man label.
Jackson Wang tells Apple Music about how he has been feeling recently leading up the creation of his new album, 'MAGICMAN 2'
Zane Lowe: What do the lights feel like on those days when you know, when you're carrying that truth, but on the outside and you're showing up for work and you're doing the shows and it's bright and it's loud? What does it feel like?
Jackson Wang: The only bright light that I saw in 10 years is being on stage, having my audience there. That was it. But what killed me internally was behind the scenes. I wasn't used to it. I didn't know how to deal with it, like the system, the reality of everything, the humanity of everything. So yeah, that's why I created this album. And also this album is very self-serving for me.
Jackson Wang tells Apple Music about living with his parents and naming a song after them
I live with them because, there's a song in my album that's named after them. And through that year, I was just thinking there are a lot of thoughts that I've never really thought about my parents. This song called Sophie Ricky, my mom's called Sophie, and my dad is Ricky. And that one year I started thinking, it's interesting that we're born, but we always tend to think our parents will take care of everything as a kid. Oh, they'll take care of everything. But we never actually thought about when they first had us, they had no idea.
Jackson Wang tells Apple Music about the nuances behind his new album
Jackson Wang: Just in general, the entire album is about just going through life. And there's so many emotions in life where the chapter one, let's say it's manic highs, going into losing control, going into realization and going into acceptance. And that applies to everything in life. That's just life in general. And every single song, there's a message to it according to the Jackson Wang: Just in general, the entire album is about just going through life. And there's so many emotions in life where the chapter one, let's say it's manic highs, going into losing control, going into realization and going into acceptance. And that applies to everything in life. That's just life in general. And every single song, there's a message to it according to the chapters. And that's how I feel about love. That's how I feel about this. This is what happened to me. This is my situation, my scenario, my experience. And at last, everything comes down to the last chapter. Acceptance is accepting everything.
Zane Lowe: And then we get "Made Me a Man", which is a powerful, powerful song. I mean, it really is almost like a, it's like you have stared at those things that you were scared of, that were anxiety-inducing, that you couldn't talk about, and it's like you're making peace with that time in your life a little bit on that song.
Jackson Wang: Yeah. The last song is “Made Me a Man” and it's chapter four, acceptance, accepting it and moving on. And that's every situation in life. And something happened, you learn. First of all, you get very emotional about it. Then you realize a lot of things. And at the end, what has happened can't be undone. So you just accept it. You learn and you move on with it. And whatever the good and the bad made who you are today.