Who run the world? Er, GIRLS dummy! In The Whatever The Weather Issue, i-D’s Music Editor Hattie Collins rounds-up some of finest British femmes in the music industry right now. Singing 90s fused pop tunes and editing a fanzine (The A*M*E) with the editorial help of similarly talented teenage friends MNEK and Bartoven are just two of A*M*E’s skills, in The Whatever The Weather Issue she speaks to H.C. about some of the others, here’s a taste…
This 90% singer, 10%* rapper (*percentages approximate) born Aminata Kabba in Sierra Leone could be described as over-achieving for a 17-year-old. Rather than hanging in parks slurping Thunderbird, this South London based singer and songwriter is “Putting a 2012 twist on a 90s sensibility. I’m very pop, with a nod to the 90s but without making it too vintage,” decides the teeny tiny Madonna, Diana King, Rihanna and Florence fan with 13 piercings. “I love the 90s because they had proper songs, everything was so structured. There were middle-8s and chord changes and harmonies and riffs. So good.” City Lights, the first release from the girl who likes to hang in Nandos (“Bare tragic”), will feature teenage whizz Bartoven and is produced by MNEK. “I’m doing something different to the stereotypical black, teenage, urban thing, so I hope people appreciate that. It’s fun pop music, nothing too heavy, tragic, sad or anything like that. Something people can relate to. I’m bringing it back 90s style!”
To read Hattie’s interview with A*M*E and see the full round-up, grab yourself a copy of The Whatever The Weather Issue, available here and see all H.C’s ladies in all their glory here.
In portrait A*M*E wears all clothing Kokon to Zai.
Text: Hattie Collins
Photography: Thomas Lohr
Film interview: Zainab Jama
Styling: Tamer Wilde
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