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Forest started learning how to play guitar at fifteen, initially for a crush. \u201cHe played guitar, and I was like, \u2018He’s going to love me if I play guitar,\u2019\u201d the Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based songwriter remembers. \u201cAnd that didn’t happen, which is totally fine. But I think I won the guitar game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forest had always been creative, singing constantly as a kid, spending years in ballet, drawing and considering everything from visual art to movie makeup, but music arrived comparatively late. Once she knew enough guitar to fumble her way through writing a song, something shifted. \u201cI was like, \u2018Oh fuck, this is the thing,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cI finally found the thing that is going to stick.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked about albums she keeps returning to, Panic! At The Disco\u2019s A Fever You Can\u2019t Sweat Out<\/a> was an early obsession, with its theatrics, teen angst, and emotionally charged choruses, alongside Chicago 90\u2019s cult favourites Smoking Popes<\/a>. By the time she began shaping her debut album, Swan Dive<\/em>, Forest was pulling from the industrial bite of Snake River Conspiracy<\/a>, or the way the Smashing Pumpkins<\/a>\u2019 and Elliott Smith<\/a> can create immediate feelings of intimacy. \u201cI love soft vocals over a heavy guitar,\u201d Forest says \u2013 a similar juxtaposition that runs throughout Swan Dive<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s heard most immediately on \u201cVulture\u201d, the opening track and emotional doorway into Swan Dive<\/em>. It was one of the rare songs on the record where Forest knew exactly what she wanted to say. She describes it alongside \u201cBodies\u201d as being concerned with \u201cwomanhood in relation to other people,\u201d including \u201cmy relationship with my body\u201d and the pressures projected onto it. \u201cI really love the writing on it,\u201d she says. \u201cI loved how the production turned out. I think it was very well-rounded.\u201d <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a darkness to \u201cVulture\u201d, but Forest has always been interested in making ugliness and beauty coexist. It\u2019s seen in elaborate corsets against lace on the album cover art, a swan cradled in her arms \u2013 yet the delicacy is interrupted by feathers splattered across the cover and a dark room that envelops her. \u201cWriting about things that are kind of dark and a little bizarre and weird\u2026 that\u2019s my forte.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two years ago, Swan Dive<\/em> began in a Boston hotel bathroom. Forest was sharing a room with her parents while her father prepared to run the marathon when she returned from a night out with friends. \u201cI stumble in, like, very drunk into this hotel room that I\u2019m sharing with both of my parents,\u201d she remembers. \u201cMy mother had a sleep apnea mask on and I was totally bothering her. My dad is running the marathon in two days, so he\u2019s knocked out cold.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then she wandered into the bathroom. \u201cI\u2019m just transfixed on this swan,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Wow, what a beautiful picture.\u2019\u201d She snapped a photo, not yet knowing the otherwise unremarkable piece of hotel art would eventually give her debut album its name. She began thinking about the story behind Swan Lake<\/em> and an internet myth that a swan will dive to its death after losing its mate. \u201cIt\u2019s not a real thing,\u201d she clarifies, \u201cbut I was just kind of thinking about a lot of swan visuals, and I was like, \u2018Wow, what a beautiful name for an album \u2013 Swan Dive<\/em>.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

What stayed with Forest was the idea of an animal whose existence is bound to another, only to lose it. \u201cHow tragic to be this animal and all you\u2019re living for, really, is this other swan who you\u2019re partners with,\u201d she says. \u201cYou lose that one thing that you\u2019re like, \u2018This is what made it.\u2019\u201d She pauses on the thought. \u201cIt\u2019s the tragedy of it all. It\u2019s very sad and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those themes ripple through Swan Dive<\/em>: attachment and separation, beauty and morbidity, loneliness and solitude. The latter distinction matters especially to Forest. \u201cI\u2019m not a lonely person,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m a very alone person. I\u2019m an only child. I’m a very \u2018fester with my own thoughts\u2019 type of person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of that solitude intensified when she left music school in Boston and moved to Los Angeles, convincing her family to let her try it for a year via a PowerPoint presentation. Three years later, she\u2019s still there. \u201cThe first six months to a year was pretty rough,\u201d she admits. \u201cI was like, \u2018I don\u2019t have friends. I\u2019m not in college. I can\u2019t walk three minutes and see a bunch of my friends.\u2019\u201d Pursuing music without a clear path only compounded the isolation. \u201cIt was a really exhausting and rough time for me,\u201d she says \u2013 an experience she eventually channelled into Swan Dive<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At 23, Forest knows the perspective captured on Swan Dive<\/em> is unlikely to stay fixed. \u201cIt\u2019s a topic that is definitely changing as I get older,\u201d she says of writing about womanhood. \u201cI\u2019m having different perspectives on it as I\u2019m getting older.\u201d And yet \u201cVulture\u201d is the moment she sounds most certain. From the finished production to its place opening the record, Forest never wavered on the song: \u201cI was really strong in my convictions about that,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is the song on the album for me. This is my song.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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