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Ivan Ives's Biography
“We’re living in 1984 now; it’s just a little nicer cosmetically,” says Ivan Ives, the Los Angeles alt-rapper – deemed an “artist to watch” by Rolling Stone – whose epic new disc, NEWSPEAK, has just dropped on No Threshold Records.
“The album title is a reference to George Orwell’s novel ‘1984,’” he explains. “‘Newspeak’ is the language created by the government to make the public dimmer. By controlling vocabulary and restricting people’s ability to speak eloquently, Big Brother limits the complexity of their thoughts. American culture becomes more dumbed-down every day. Just watch the news or listen to the radio.”
Ives’ own approach to language is as a vehicle for independent expression and nonconformist ideals. “My lyrics do not coincide with the Orwellian concept of Newspeak,” he confirms. “So I thought I’d flip it in the songwriting for this album by writing in the opposite vein. The contrast is interesting, but also, for someone who might not get the allusion, I’m rapping, i.e. ‘speak’ing + this is my new music = Newspeak.”