{"id":2508000,"date":"2026-07-19T07:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2508000"},"modified":"2026-07-19T07:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:05:45","slug":"zayys-music-reaction-videos-are-the-last-real-thing-on-our-bankrupt-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/zayys-music-reaction-videos-are-the-last-real-thing-on-our-bankrupt-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Zayy\u2019s Music-Reaction Videos Are the Last Real Thing on Our Bankrupt Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Now you&#8217;re getting into Pavement, Built to Spill, Wilco&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where the comments help me a lot. Growing up, I was more 90s, 2000s R&amp;B, Michael Jackson, of course. Now I&#8217;m getting into some hip-hop that I hadn\u2019t even heard of, like Souls of Mischief. I hadn\u2019t heard of that because I&#8217;m young.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you a musician yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, I really love it, though. I don&#8217;t know how to play. I don&#8217;t know how to sing. I just like the way it sounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I think the appeal of your videos is that you&#8217;re so open-minded to it, which is something that we don&#8217;t think of your generation as being.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Exactly. Everybody\u2019s just set to their same artists, same shows, same clothes\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>What have you liked so far? What have you listened to again?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love Ministry, I can\u2019t lie. Tool. The Cocteau Twins. We got some Sonic Youth, New Order, Boards of Canada\u2026 Oh, Wilco. I like Wilco a lot too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ministry and Wilco are very far apart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What I like about Ministry is they place the background noises perfectly. \u201cBreathe\u201d is a song I like a lot. They&#8217;ll do little screams that echo, but it blends perfectly with the way the music is going.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have artists that you&#8217;ve talked about gotten in touch with you or tagged you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s what I didn&#8217;t expect at all. Wilco has liked some posts. Jack Black, Erykah Badu, George Clinton\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what&#8217;s your plan with this? Do you want to monetize it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have thought about switching. I\u2019m still on Reels of course, but the thing with YouTube is they&#8217;re very strict with copyrighted music, so I don&#8217;t really know how to pivot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I just think it&#8217;s so refreshing. We see shit all day long and some of it resonates, some of it doesn&#8217;t, but I think that there&#8217;s something so wholesome about it. I can remember hearing these things for the first time when I was 13, 14 years old, and I see you figuring it out. And because you&#8217;ve gotten so specific, it really hits with my peers. I&#8217;m 43, so all my homies, this is the shit we grew up with. We&#8217;re sending it to each other like, &#8220;Yo, this guy&#8217;s deep! He&#8217;s listening to Cat Power.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That one came about because I saw the follow from Cat Power. I clicked on the profile and looked it up on Spotify. I was like, &#8220;Oh, she makes music!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do your parents think?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When it started going up to this extent, they were like, &#8220;Wait a minute, this could be something.&#8221; It\u2019s not guaranteed you&#8217;re going to blow up but they\u2019re excited to see where it could go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They&#8217;re supportive. They&#8217;re not like, &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m thankful for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parents, especially if they have kids your age, have to consider this stuff because it&#8217;s part of the world now. Before this started taking off, what was your plan, where was your head at?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, I wanted to be an actor. I did my headshots and everything, but I can&#8217;t really throw myself into something if I&#8217;m not passionate. I did background casting, whatever, but over time I was like, &#8220;I&#8217;m not feeling this.&#8221; I started looking at trade schools or real estate. It&#8217;s hard to set myself on one specific career. But, I don&#8217;t know. Let&#8217;s just see where it goes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As long as you&#8217;re going to dedicate yourself to it, whatever it is, it&#8217;ll work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I believe that a hundred percent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I love what you&#8217;re doing and I love your attitude.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you. I&#8217;m just grateful for the community that I&#8217;ve created there. I don&#8217;t know if you looked through my comments, but there&#8217;s no hate. And if it stays like this, it can go to the moon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.gq.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now you&#8217;re getting into Pavement, Built to Spill, Wilco&#8230; That&#8217;s where the comments help me a lot. Growing up, I was more 90s, 2000s R&amp;B, Michael Jackson, of course. Now I&#8217;m getting into some hip-hop that I hadn\u2019t even heard of, like Souls of Mischief. I hadn\u2019t heard of that because I&#8217;m young. 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