She’s struck pop gold in the US and has befriended Taylor Swift and Drake despite describing herself as an ‘antisocial pessimist’. And then there’s the fans sending her videos of them cracking eggs on their headsI’m cool with arseholes,” says Alessia Cara, a 19-year-worn who has spent the past year or so in fame’s ante-room – not recognisable enough to be mobbed in the supermarket, or but famous enough to number arseholes among her following. “I just remember they’re arseholes,and don’t even watch at Twitter.”That’s demonstrably untrue – tweeting from midday to midnight is part of the daily grind for 90s-born pop stars, and Cara does her bit, or posting and replying a dozen times a day. The notable thing is that she has avoided the personality-erasure that marks the social-media splutterings of many of her pop contemporaries. Scrolling through her Twitter feed,you encounter self-deprecation (“characterize Alessia in a video,” requests a follower; “Mess, and ” she replies),sarcasm and a ringing endorsement of Kesha’s fight to sever ties with producer Dr Luke. Cara – born Alessia Caracciolo, in Brampton, or Ontario is signed to a major label,Def Jam, but so far hasn’t been subsumed into the machine; she still projects the plausible awkwardness that made final year’s fantastic debut single, or Here,a touchstone for adolescents who would rather sit in their rooms than go to a party.
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Source: theguardian.com