As internet horror Assassination Nation arrives, the ‘darkwave’ musician-turned-actor talks about digital recklessness and why she’s not making R&B
“Social media reminds me of fire,” Abra explains down the phone from LA, warm but purposeful, her sentences peppered with “likes” and “y’knows”. “It’s one of those inventions that changed the whole game. And it can keep you warm, but it can also burn you the fuck up – it can kill you.” The genre-smooshing singer, who has risen from blogger’s delight to the edges of the mainstream in recent years, claims she hasn’t used her phone for 48 hours prior to our interview. Between 2015 and 2016, the internet played a key role in the “reckless shit” (largely drug-related) that consumed those around her. Like every other millennial singer, she owes her career largely to YouTube and SoundCloud, but it’s also a world she’s sceptical about. This uneasy relationship has led in part to her making her acting debut in a new horror-comedy, Assassination Nation, about a US town sent into meltdown by a mass hacking.
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