#inyourspeakers

Mackenzie Scott: I’ve had a really fantastic time, every bit of it. SXSW is about as DIY as it gets, which I love. Everyone is so connected and you can just run into anyone. I’ve met a lot of people here, who have had a lot of great things to say.

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Interviewer: We were lucky enough to see you play twice at SXSW—did you enjoy the festival?

Mackenzie Scott: I did. It was physically exhausting and draining to haul the gear around by hand for five days, but I’d consider the experience worth the effort. I’m really thankful for the momentum the record received after we played SXSW.

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“SXSW is exciting. It’s a lot of hard work. I mean, it’s super DIY. Like, you’re sweating, and you smell awful, and you’re carrying all of your heavy gear, you know, by hand, walking from venue to venue. Then you play a quick set with no soundcheck, and then you strip it back down and you go to the next one, and I love that. I think it’s great. I think that every musician should have to do that at some point. ’Cause how else are you gonna earn your stripes, you know?”

Mackenzie Scott: I have thought about it, but to do that I would need to stop turning my poems into songs. I need to have my poetry be just that.

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Interviewer: Do you plan to ever publish any of your poetry?

Mackenzie Scott: I haven’t published anything yet. That was always something I tried to do when I was younger, like in middle school and high school. I would enter poetry contests. I would love to publish a poetry collection. What’s funny is that so many of my poems have transformed into songs and then I put them on my record! I think I need to distinguish a little more in the future as to what’s going to be a poem and what’s going to be a song, because if I keep using all of my poems and turning them into songs then I’m not going to have a poetry collection!

Mackenzie Scott: I think I would like to. Im going to experiment.

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“In terms of performance [on the next album], I think it’ll all be turned up a bit.

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“As far as the recording and the new album goes, the way it’s going to sound and all of that, I have been thinking a lot more about production and weird sounds that I never even would have considered for the first album.”