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" Seventeen:  Tell us a little bit about your music. What are we going to hear? Tristan Wilds:  I&amp;#039;m just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there&amp;#039;s a real lack of intimacy. You don&amp;#039;t really connect with the artist as much anymore, and you don&amp;#039;t really understand where they are. I&amp;#039;m basically doing music that illustrates who I am and where I am in my life.  17:  What are we going to learn about you through your music? TW:  Well, I write a lot of poetry \u2014 that&amp;#039;s where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me \u2014 love, loss, heartbreak \u2014 all of that good stuff!  17:  Let&amp;#039;s talk about some of the themes we&amp;#039;re going to see in the album, like love and loss. When you do go through a difficult time, do you shut down?  TW:  I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye&amp;#039;s 808&amp;#039;s &amp;amp;amp; Heartbreak. That playlist just was LONG!  17:  Do you feel like there are things that you understand about love and life now that you didn&amp;#039;t know when you were 17?  TW:  Oh wow, yes! Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, &amp;quot;CALM DOWN. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.&amp;quot; 17:  So what music artists are you really into now?  TW:  Kanye, of course. I like Kanye because of his honesty. I think Kanye has a weird honesty that, no matter how brash or how conceited he may come off, you listen to that music and you just feel him. It&amp;#039;s like you hate to love him!  17:  Is there anybody that you&amp;#039;re into that we&amp;#039;d be surprised by? Are you a closet Britney Spears fan?  TW:  Actually, there are some Britney Spears songs that I have on my iPod. You know\u2026my little sister listens to it! I give everybody a fair try, a fair shake. 17:  Where is a girl going to want to listen your music?  TW:  If I had it my way, she would want to listen to it everywhere! I love ballads, but I&amp;#039;m a hip hop head through and through \u2014everything from Jay-Z to Run-DMC to Public Enemy. Hip hop was probably the basis of my life, and then it just grew into singing and poetry and everything else. 17:  Can we expect to hear Dixon performing on 90210 next season?  TW:  I hope not! I would rather see Dixon spinning one of Tristan Wilds&amp;#039; songs at the club or something! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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