In our interview with OmarApollo, the Gen Z heartthrob talks working with Pharrell, representing a culture, and embracing complexity on his full-length debut 'Ivory.' Read:
— doesn’t consider what Apollo did as scrapping the record and starting over, but more like Apollo “seeing what’s out there,” working with new collaborators and retooling the ideas he had for the album. “You don’t want to put all of your tokens in until you’ve found all of those pockets,” Lang says. “You have to come to terms with what you’re actually feeling, instead of trying to beat the competition. That’s what the final form feels like.
The album has a post-heartbreak “bad bitch” layer to it, too, with songs like “Can’tgetoveryou” and “Evergreen.” Apollo laughs when I describe it that way. “Emotions are very complex,” he says. “We feel very happy. We feel heartbroken. We feel cocky and confident. Arrogant, sometimes. It’s like, yeah, I do have emotional experience here. But I’m also going to bounce back.
Out of nowhere, the washer starts squirting water onto the floor of the garage, catching Apollo off-guard. He tilts his head, intrigued, before getting up to analyze the old machine. “It looks like it’s normal?” he says, confused. Before he moved to Los Angeles to focus on his music three years ago, Apollo was living in his parents’ attic in Hobart, Indiana, where he was born Omar Apolonio Velasco, his middle name a tribute to his grandfather. One of his tíos, Tomás, lives in a similar garage to this one back at the Velasco home; the singer’s mom, Enriqueta, worked as a lunch lady at Omarcito’s school, while his dad, Roberto, delivered food for the same cafeteria.
During Apollo’s childhood, songs by Vicente Fernandez, Pedro Infante, and Juan Gabriel filled his home.
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