Diandra Interviews Rocky Snyda: Queen of Trypop

What is TryPop? It is a genre created by Rocky Snyda to redefine and revamp a genre that can be very excluding. Pop is very much a mainstream machine with a set standard of sound and look. Yet, for Rocky Snyda, TryPop was her way of experimenting with music via how she reflected on her past. It was a genre she made that opposed Pop’s usual approach of sunshine and rainbows to instead add a flare and bounce based in fear. In our interview, Rocky Snyda discusses how her new record, aptly called TryPop, became her way of turning negatives into positives and observing just how vast her talent can be. :

Diandra: How has 2020 changed how create?

Rocky: I think it has made me create from a place of vulnerability like, whatever I think, goes into the song: no filter. I think being inside, you just start staying in your feelings and what you feel in the moment, you just put it. If it hits then it hits, you know.

Diandra: So why Trypop?

Rocky: I just like the style i was going for and I decided to keep trying it. I was making a lot of music in that direction that was not Hip Hop. I also have trypophobia which is a fear of clusters of small holes and bumps. Basically, you associate seeing it with disease. Don’t know if you have ever heard of it? So Trypop is also short for that.

Diandra: Wow! I never heard of that! So what about Pop made you think of that or, at least, invited you to experiment?

Rocky: I liked the idea of not doing the textbook version of Pop or what I think it is. It brought together all my Pop influences, Metric and Daft Punk. Now, I am looking to make a “Pop song,” but at the time I was working, I was reflecting on life and relationships, and I just wanted to experiment. The next thing I am doing is going to be more songs that fit TryPop, but, after that, I have made Hip Hop unreleased. My friend, whom is a producer, is making a lot of alternative rock, which makes sense for me, too. I can really try anything.

Diandra; So with this idea that reflecting on feelings inspired you to experiment with genres, if emotions were genres, which ones do you rock?

Rocky: hmmmm…..definitely passion, sadness, triumph. There are a lot of blue emotions like, “Ugh! I’m in this space!” When I create, I tap back into old emotions like, betrayal. I create a lot of good music off of down feels. Every now and then, I make a song out of happy feelings, but a lot of times it is about turning negative feelings into positive.

Diandra: What about music invites artists to just purge their darker sentiments?

Rocky: I think it is seeing, in the music, you grow more confident. It just brings out this energy in you where you can put all that makes you down and leave it there. It makes you happy. It’s good vibes and puts you on a positive direction. Being Rocky is like “faking it till I make it.” With her, I say I am this and I am that because that is what I want to be.

Diandra: Manifestation?

Rocky: Exactly!

Diandra: Has manifesting Rocky surprised you?

Rocky: I think it was always there but it also surprised me. I have been rapping ever since I was a kid, with my cousins, but I never thought I could make it a real thing or a career. But it was always there. There are too many little elements that were always there like, producing on Garageband and writing poems over beats, but never recording them. Like, this year, was me taking that step.

Diandra: I get it! I don’t know one artist that didn’t have to take a journey of confidence to actually release music. Like they always made it, but releasing it is a whole other beast.

Rocky: Exactly!

Diandra: Yet, you were always a Theater Baby! I know you love your musicals so which one is your favorite?

Rocky: Rent! I’m pretty sure everyone loves Rent. I also love Passing Strange; it was so modern. The music is alternative rock, and I loved the topic that it was a young, black man trying to find himself. He is an “alternative” person, and not stereotypical in what people think of black people. It is about him exploring and trying to avoid how the world and his family set him up to be.

Diandra: What is your favorite music memory from childhood?

Rocky: Listening to Spice Girls with my friends and watching the movie. We had all the keychains. Also, playing hot 97, with my friends, while driving through the city and blasting the hits

Diandra: What movie would your turn into a concept album and what album would you turn into a concept film?

Robyn: The Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind would be a great concept album, and Queen’s Greatest Hits album would be a great movie. I LOVE Queen! The movie was so good.

Diandra: If you were a Queen song, which one would it be?

Rocky: I am trying not to be a cliche and say, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” so I will go with “Don’t Stop Me Now.” It really is genius. They were so thoughtful in their music.

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