'We don't have long on this planet. It's important for me to get things off my chest.'
It’s date night for Joy Crookes. The South London singer-songwriter is at home in the U.K. for the first time in weeks, having spent the last month touring across the pond. In another week, she’ll head out complete the European leg of her tour. But first, romance calls.
At 23, it may seem as though Crookes wouldn’t have to reach too far back to tap into this space. But when you get your start in the music industry as a teenager, it can feel like a lifetime away. Crookes, who was born in Lambeth, London to a Bangladeshi mother and an Irish father, dropped out of high school at the age of 16 to pursue music more seriously. “I felt like I was really young, and I should have maybe stayed in school.
On growing up with music “Music has always been a part of my life in the sense that it was always played in the house and it has always been something I’ve been really interested in. I used to buy records, I used to buy albums, I used to buy magazines about music and read about the new weekly albums that have come out. I was just really into music—not necessarily so much as a musician, but more as someone that just really loved it.
On how her songwriting process has changed “I feel like I’m a lot more self-assured. I’m better at accepting that some songs I write are just going to be a bit shit. I put a lot of pressure on myself when I was younger to think that every song I wrote needed to be the best one. Now, I think mediocrity is essential. I need to have songs that are not necessarily trying to reach for anything. Or where I’m trying to reach for something and I don’t grab it. That’s fine.
I’ve got this song called “Feet Don’t Fail Me Now” that’s constantly used for soccer in the UK, and it has nothing to do with feet. It might as well be used for a foot fetish advertisement. I love that! I’ve written a pop song that is about performativity, armchair activism and cancel culture, and for some reason, it’s used in all of these super literal contexts. I have no issue with that, because it’s hilarious to me. Art is like Play-Doh—it’s so malleable.
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